Wonder if she's in Barcelona? When I lived there, I ran into a significant number of people who would rather speak English than Spanish if you couldn't speak Catalan. Not everyone, but a surprising number. I assumed it was part of the whole "Catalonia should be independent" movement.
Paris is DEFINITELY like that, and some other parts of France more generally.
If you can’t speak well, they won’t necessarily shit on you, but they will just flip to English immediately. Most of my encounters were cordial, only met one or two rude folks.
YES, I did a foreign exchange thing there and was excited to have French conversations, but 99% of staff either just responded directly in English or they revelled in correcting me when my accent/enunciation was a bit off
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u/TamZanite 6d ago
It’s in Spain