Sorry but you people criticizing it are taking it WAY to seriously. I’m sure season 2 will be about her learning more French language and culture from her new handsome French boyfriend. And if we are being honest some of the sterotypes have some truth to them. Ok so don’t you see that it is SUPPOSED to be over the top and funny because IT’S A COMEDY! Even the most naiive of Americans know not to act this way. À tout de suite ! I’ll see you in the next lesson! The French Love of Debates – Feel comfortable in the scary disagreements between French friends!.Meeting New People – In North-American vs French cultures (with a personal story).6 French faux-pas – Cultural missteps you should avoid.You’ll learn about 6 cultural missteps you should avoid, I’ll tell you a story that happened to me about meeting new people, and you’ll even get to master the scary, heated French debates between friends. Here are some other lessons about cultural differences to get you started. It’s my favorite book about cultural differences between France and the English-speaking world, and I agree with basically everything she writes. On this topic, I strongly recommend the book Cultural Misunderstandings – The French-American Experience, by Raymonde Carroll. It’s better to know just a few basic, polite words and be respectful, than to speak perfect French while still ignoring all cultural rules. Of course, Emily could have learned some French before going to Paris, but that’s not her main problem.
But I think it can be a valuable springboard for talking about cultural misunderstandings. Once again, I’m not really interested in all the things Emily in Paris does right or wrong. You can start by practicing French in a safe environment, among your peers and/or with a teacher, so you’ll fix your most common mistakes before engaging in “real” French conversations.) Because if you associate “making mistakes” with “feeling bad,” then soon enough you’ll be afraid of speaking French! So try to not feel bad when French people correct you. What you need is to practice, and make a lot of mistakes. You don’t really need constant correction.You can repeat the correct pronunciation back to them, and learn a bit.You don’t need more stress when trying to speak French! These corrections mostly come with good intentions! So, when they hear you struggle, they want to help you get better at it. It’s true, French people love their language.
Most times, though, the French person would just repeat the correct pronunciation back to you, instead of explicitly teaching you where you made a mistake. That’s a real thing that might happen to you, too! The baker then corrects Emily’s pronunciation. You can at least answer back with “ Bonjour” when the shopkeeper greets you. You should say “ Bonjour” whenever you enter any French small shop, like une épicerie (= a small grocery store), une librairie (= a bookstore)… or really any shop that’s smaller than a supermarket. That’s very mal élevé (= rude, impolite, literally “badly raised”). No, the real misstep here is that Emily doesn’t say Bonjour (= Hello) when she enters the shop. It’s good, because it at least shows that you tried! You’re allowed to speak French imperfectly. The first joke is supposed to come from her bad pronunciation of un pain au chocolat. We’ll focus on one scene in the first episode, when Emily goes to une boulangerie (= a baker’s store.) You deserve to have the best experience in France, so let’s see how you should act instead - even if you don’t speak French very well! And so you, the viewer, might miss some of the ways in which Emily’s behavior wouldn’t be well received in France. But often, the show doesn’t even seem aware when Emily makes a cultural misstep. The character Emily doesn’t accept cultural differences, and the show gets a lot of jokes out of that.
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