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It always amazes me that French people don't want to read English.

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So true

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I'm one of the rare french who speaks almost fluent english. And I read books in English.
But I don't get why you expect someone who's native language is not English to read books in English and be able to give directions in English to american tourists. French people don't know English any better than Americans know their second language. What's your second language? Do you read books in that language on a regular basis? Or do you wait for a translation?
When I ask directions in an american city, I don't expect people to know french or german or spanish.

French suck at foreign languages as much as americans, nothing more