French language in Istanbul.

How many of you have visited that beautiful city? Doesnt matter lets ask the next question; have you heard that question 《Türkçe biliyor musun?》during your stay here? Obviously Yes.

Its the common sentence here when you approach people maybe to find your way or to buy something, just pay attention if you come here you will hear it more than 5 times per day.

Let's move forward. You are a foreigner here, you are just walking arround in the city, trying to have conversations with people. First point: Which language(s) are you going to use? Ok English, it's a common language. Can we go and get the feedback from that foreigner? I experienced it several times and I got approximately the same answers: 《I felt like the person in front of me was uncomfortable and I just easily got the problem》According to informations I collected, I just understood that the problem was the Language.

《Is it too much ask to have a short conversation in French language here?》I heard that sentence 3 times last summer and I noticed how much that Woman was frustrated. That question helped me that day to understand how much it's difficult for native french speaker to communicate here.

So I just ask myself: What can we do?

1- Teach french for free so that we can encourage people to learn?

2- come here and collect advices from colleagues?

I think that one could be very interesting and more productive.