My boyfriend is French speaking and I'm English speaking. He is completely fluent and we communicate just fine. I recently moved to England to start college and to be closer to his home country, and now I am spending much more time at his house. His family are all pretty fluent in English, but they speak French probably around 75 percent of the time, which I completely understand - I don't expect them to speak English all the time just because I'm there. I appreciate when they speak English, and I'm also taking French classes in school to try and learn the language, but I am just terrible at speaking French out loud and I rarely do. I feel stupid when I do.
His family and I are all pretty friendly with each other, it's just a little awkward because it's hard to communicate. There are times when I just have to sit there doing nothing for like an hour while they have a conversation in French. I'm worried that we'll never be very close because I can't speak French, and I'm worried that maybe they're annoyed about it. We just kind of exist in the same house and don't talk all that much. Is anyone else in a similar situation? What do you think?
His family and I are all pretty friendly with each other, it's just a little awkward because it's hard to communicate. There are times when I just have to sit there doing nothing for like an hour while they have a conversation in French. I'm worried that we'll never be very close because I can't speak French, and I'm worried that maybe they're annoyed about it. We just kind of exist in the same house and don't talk all that much. Is anyone else in a similar situation? What do you think?
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