East Coast word usage versus West Coast...

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241. I was down in France just yesterday

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While my French is now close to native fluency, when I first started going there, it was anything but. Not once was I EVER mocked for imperfections in my speech. Indeed, they were always appreciative of my efforts to speak their language. France is a nation FULL of immigrants, and those people who speak incorrect French hardly even raise an eyebrow.

As for JFK, he never said he was a hot dog. He said he was a jelly-filled donut.

Germans are quite used to immigrants as well, which is normal for a large, relatively affluent country that borders on nine others, six of which are mostly not German-speaking. Many people find German to be grammatically more challenging than French. I find most Germans to be extremely tolerant of immigrants or other foreigners speaking their language with less than native fluency.