verb conjugation, with nothing that would help people feel comfortable having a conversation in colloquial French. I know quite a few people who have a good grasp of the language but are shy when speaking French because they feel they have a strong English accent, aren't comfortable with slang, can't understand people with strong Quebecois accents, etc. In a normal daily conversation, nobody is gonna care if you conjugated a verb wrong or mixed up a word's gender in your second language if they can still understand you. There has to be a balance of course; it's important to be able to use the language well an

That was part of history at one moment. Talk to any indigenous people, they see us as colonizers too. The French were absolutely trying to expand their empire.