I went to Amsterdam a few years ago for a weekend and our 'meet up' bar had this Dutch barman who had such a command of the English language, he switched accents depending on the person ordering..... He specialised in the Liverpool accent 🤣🤣

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the French who are super protective of it

funny story from Australia: some farmers wouldn't hire French backpackers anymore after bad experiences with their English

The problem with french is, they have classroom french and street french, which I suppose they have for any language but the spoken way drops parts that are always written

I learned a bit of French in school. Once, a French exchange student came to our class and didn't understand some of the words we learned, because he only ever used the "street version", haha

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> the French who are super protective of it

funny story from Australia: some farmers wouldn't hire French backpackers anymore after bad experiences with their English

> The problem with french is, they have classroom french and street french, which I suppose they have for any language but the spoken way drops parts that are always written

I learned a bit of French in school. Once, a French exchange student came to our class and didn't understand some of the words we learned, because he only ever used the "street version", haha