Hey !

A question I ask myself : what do you think about France and french people ?
I'd like know how France is seen by the world. There are many stereotypes that are often wrong, like the berets worn by the french (lool).
The beret is worn by the elderly, especially those living in the countryside.

The French are Rude
No ! lol

The french are not ! These are often people who live in the countryside that have some expressions that may offend.
It is often difficult to understand them...


Are you a fiew questions about french stereotypes ? ^^

I was personally in France a few days ago. I was in Marseille and Civitavechia...

French people are sometimes rude and some of them don't bathe before going to sleep...which totally sucks when I was in the BUS!!!!

Marseille . The people of Marseille are rude, yes. When we see a people of television, we know if he's Marseillais (people of Marseille) or not.
Me, I live in Royan, near Bordeaux, and the people are 1000 times nicer than the Marseillais. The city of Marseille is beautiful, but the people, hum

Yeah... Most Frenchies dont do that... which totally suks sometimes!

Also.. they like to cheat. I remember I changed $300 and they gave me 200 Euros. I took a taxi for a tour of VilleFranche... he wanted 100 euros for a roundtrip. When we arrived at some historical place I gave him 40 Euros instead of the 25 that we agreed on every stop. I got confused cause the 20 euro bill looks like the 5 euro bill so when I went to tell him of the error he told me that I gave him only 25... LIAR!

but things happen. My sister got her ipod and camera stolen too... FROM HER PURSE! they are good stealers too... lol

In fact, the frenchies are people who are very sociable. It's not uncommon to see people who talk about everything and anything, then they don't know each other. About the bathe before going to sleep : most french take a shower the morning, before going to work. Foreigners can find rude French, 'cause they're often in misunderstanding.
We don't hesitate to speak everything at everyone.

Ohh...
Well thank god I was only there on Vacation

What ?

On vacation, I suggest you go to Paris or Britain, or west south. People are very different.

Well I was taking a cruise from barcelona, Spain. So I really had to go to the Ports of call

haha well in my point of view
france seemed to be quite humorous when I went on vacation
and to be honest i dont know if its cuz they were friendly
or if they were simple just making fun of my attempt to speak french haha

Perhaps your attempt to speak french I had to take my G1 and use a translator... I could understand them mostly cause I speak spanish and their language is similar to Spanish!

Yeah thats the conclusion I came to myself
but then again,I too speak spanish, but their dialogue is too fast!!
I couldnt quite catch it all
not even my sister who literally devoted her high school years
to learn French!!

yeah.. well I do remember a few words (pardon if I write them wrong)

Manyare - this was my favorite one

Toilettee- A Necessity at every STOP

whats manyare??

all i remember is the simple short phrases
such as....

bonjour madame/monsieur
and then after that i would make a fool out of myself

and then the one i used the most i think
je voudrais une taille grande
which is what i would say when the clothes i tried on were too small

Manyare was Food... Lets eat

Toilette - BathRoom

the one word you can never forget

is

Croissant!!

God they tastes so good. And i went to an ice cream place named Ferggii or something like that.. samn that thing tastes so darn good

oh yeah i remember that place!!
no not really we didnt get ice cream

though im sure it must have tasted delightful!!

I don't know what is manyare.

France is a nice place to visit.
I love the French sticks or baguettes as you call them, those tarts with fruit and the yellow cream in are absolutely delicious. I love the way the supermarkets have such lovely delicatessans with cheeses, cooked meats and other delicious things all on display.
It is the small things that give so much pleasure like when you go into a cafe they give you an individual biscuit on the saucer with your cup of tea or coffee, not sure if it is in Belgium where they do that though?
My brother works and lives in Metz on the border with Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg, my daughter is in Paris at the moment and she is getting the train to his place on wednesday and they are all flying back on saturday and in her suitcase will be a fresh baguette she will bring home for my tea on saturday

France reminds me of coffee and french bread! I have some distant cousins that live in Neice, and my heritage is about 50% French, so of course I would think well of French people

Vive la France!!

I just returned from a two week vacation between Montpellier and 'les Cévennes' at the borders of the Hérault-river

France is the most popular vacation country for us Belgians by the way. We like the fact that the French are more relaxed (especially at the countryside I assume) and live their life less stressful then we do (I don't know whether that's actually true or not )

In Belgium we only have rain, rain and more rain (and chocolates and french fries that aren't really 'french' but Belgian really , and beer of course).

France has so much more to offer:

Paris is always pure magic for every visitor, the weather is nice and warm in the south of the country and in the wintertime there's plenty of snow in the Alps, the Pyrenees or in the 'Massive Centrale'
The wines are delicious, the cheese famous and I ate many 'cavaillons' as well of course.

Personnaly i'm living in France and i Like it ...

ok etter don't visit south of FRance people are Rude ... but if you visit Paris that's a great place where you'll surely find nice people ...


i'm a Frensh speaker but i don't know what is Manyar (not a Frensh Word) ....


So 90% of Frensh people are very nice

Paris the best in France

je t`aime is other good phrase for remember in french

The French aren't as obsessed as Americans are about daily showers and the scent of soap. Most practice perfectly acceptible hygeine, and it is unusual to encounter a person who stinks here.they stink, women don't shave their underarms, they are rude, they hate Americans.

NICE LOOKING WOMEN!

Just google French Military history, or go here: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jo...taryhistory.htm

That's what I think about the french.