For Francophones: have you been able to use French in your job?

Un petit peu.

Je n’ai pas un job, mais j’espere que je peut trouver un job que je peut l’utiliser.

@TitsMcGhee je peux :p

I used it a lot when I worked in the food biz. For 11 years my boss was French, and we communicated exclusively in french. I don’t use it at all in my current job, and after 8 years of neglect I feel it slipping away.

@Harp very nice! What city were you in?

Chicago

I wouldn’t call myself a Francophone, but I did take a few years of French in high school. However, I do use it regularly in my job. I do some foreign language data entry (French among a host of other languages). Not only do the old French classes help with the French data, but knowing English and some French help me interpret a lot of the modern European dialects of Latin and Germanic.

I am not a Francophone either, just four semesters in college but I can read and write French without too much difficulty. Speaking and hearing are another matter.

But I work for a company based in Europe and when I have met my colleagues or contemporaries from France or Belgium, who can speak German but not English, it’s been a real advantage, especially outside of the meetings where we get a chance to socialize.

I also had responsibility for Canada for this company for over 15 years with marketing and warehouse in Ontario but accounting was still in Montreal. Speaking good French but lousy Quebecois broke down a lot of the barriers that Quebecers tend to hide behind. Even if I sound like a New Yorker speaking French, I still made the effort and it went a long way to get people used to having me as the “suit” from the US.

SRM

I live in Quebec and have gone through the French education system my entire life. It is required that you know French in most jobs here, but, I just suck at learning languages. Although, I can speak better than some people.

J’enseigne le français au lycée, alors, je l’utilise beaucoup. Quand j’étais a l’université, je travaillais comme secrétaire et je traduisais la correspondence.

When I was in high school and I worked at Barnes and Nobles, we would get French tourists or immigrants and I would speak to them in French. That was about it, though. I would love to have a job where speaking French came in handy.

Yes. I’m in public relations and some of my clients have branches in France or are headquartered there. I can communicate with the press and make clients who struggle with English feel at home, and I translate documents on occasion.

I work in retail and every now and then, I have changed from speaking English to speaking French to a customer when I’ve detected their accent/noticed they are struggling to explain what they are looking for.

Je suis encore une étudiante, mais même pour mes courses d’histoire, je fais beaucoup des recherches en français; comme je me suis specialisée en histoire mediévale, le français est une des langues les plus pratique.

And as you can probably tell, my grammer is not so hot. Since I learned French at home and through hanging out with my French family, my actual knowledge is rather informal. Oh well, I still write the papers in English!

I have only used my French in personal interests. The same for other languages mostly, although my Spanish and Russian were helpful when I worked at an airport. There you learn common phrases to many languages to help travellers.

Its all pretty much gone now, except for the words I recognize here and there.