Everyone needs to ask themselves this question before blindly accepting laws that ' sound safe ' and maybe we ' ll keep what little freedom we have left . <| sep |> Cute , but that doesn ' t work here . I ' m not saying Ice mage is bad , therefore SkS is bad too . I ' m saying You ' re shit enough to use SkS , so you probably do Ice mage tooI mean , A for effort ? You know you ' re defeated when you reach out for cute little websites to try and make your point for you , lmao . <| sep |> Not French but lived as expat in both France and Belgium . Best advice is just don ' t be too worried about making mistakes you will get laughed at but it ' s not intended to be mean . Learn to laugh along at yourself , it ' s really part of the learning process . And if people try to switch to English to be nice , try to insist on continuing in French . Also make an effort to work on your pronunciation , because most Americans are pretty terrible the American accent in French is kinda ugly to begin with and you will quickly get impress people if your pronunciation is even halfway decent . Oh , and one more practical tip with all young people e . g . everyone at uni you will always say tu immediately . In my American classrooms they always taught that if someone was youngER or you were very familiar , you can say tu , but otherwise you should start with vous . If you call another young person vous they will think you sound weird , and in certain contexts it might be rudeawkward I ' ve seen these situations , it ' s like you ' re implicitly saying you think they ' re old . I got laughed at a bunch of times before one of my French friends explained this to me .