![It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals.](/assets/img/quote-photos/its-a-common-mistake-for-vacationing-americans-to-assume-that-everyone-around-th.jpg)
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