This is an excellent read. Especially, since I would very much like to visit this beautiful city someday! It would be good for me to just immerse myself into some of the French speaking areas (?) and either sink or swim. But, I am definitely not going into this with arrogance and expecting that everyone (shops included) cater to my English. So what if I end up ordering desert only from a French dinner menu? I'm still going to call that a win - I tried and got a desert! What's not to like? Thank you for sharing this, Julia!