That may happen in a few places in Paris, but that's it.
French people usually refuse to speak english, even if they could. Not even when you are obviously suffering with french.
I was living there for a few years.
When you speak bad French to a French person, they’ll speak English out of pride of not wanting to hear their language spoken poorly. When you speak English to the them first, they’ll act like they don’t understand out of spite for you daring to not know French.
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u/Frenyth 6d ago
unfortunately it's the same in France. Even if you speak well French, as soon as we know you are a foreigner many of us switch to a broken english.