I swear I spent months memorizing vocab like cependant, toutefois, and full, elegant sentences… only to hear actual French people talk and go: “bah du coup en fait genre…”
???? I genuinely feel like I had prepared for a formal presentation and then got dropped into a chaotic group chat. Why is it have to be that hard?
I learn in group at my language school Salut Hola and then also talk to my Praktika tutor a lot and trying to make sure that I actually talk like people, not like business presentation, but I realised that only after I actually went to France and started listening to how people talk. source