perfect French

Wut?

I have never heard of that happening like ever, with the exception being tourist places in Paris, where there are 99% of non natives because if you're not a tourist you stay out of those places (paris is littered with fantastic restaurants).

From a Swede in France.

Bro I made so much effort to learn this foreign language, of course I am going to use it whenever I have the occasion!
I do this also with other language I know.

Its like there's a nation actively trying to kill its own language.

Lingua Franca indeed.

Mine was in my native language, not Japanese, but I also had a job that mandated a long greeting. I also had cause to repeat it sufficiently frequently that I could have done so in my sleep. In fact ...

Once I was at home, in bed, asleep. I had a dream that my work phone was ringing. Of course, I wasn't fully awake (or really at all) and my work phone was at work, not near my bed. In my half awake state, I picked up the nearest thing I could find - my personal cell phone - and recited the long spiel. Only after several minutes of slowly blinking myself awake did I realize my cell phone wasn't connected to anyone and, also, I wasn't at work.

The only character I had engaged was my dog, who was staring at me in apparent confusion. Probably that was just because I had gone from dead asleep to jerking upright grabbing my cell phone, but I like to think that in his head he was thinking I was a dumbass for thinking I was at work.

Sorry, off topic but your comment about the Japanese phone getting reminded me of when I worked at an English school too.

My coworker, who is 100% Japanese, was just off her game that day and instead of "お電話ありがとうございます〇〇です" she greeted a random caller with "おめでとうございます〇〇です" lol

It was really cute. She of course committed sudoku in shame soon after.

My gf studied Dutch for years, came over to NL, spoke to my parents in Dutch, all good.

Then we ordered things in a café. She kept speaking Dutch, the waitress understood, but kept replying in English with a heavy accent. Then switched to Dutch when speaking to me.

I've always heard those stories and couldn't imagine anyone being so rude but yeah.