oh, definitely, my most practiced French phrase is "je m'excuse, je ne parle pas tres bien le francais". If my interlocutor speaks English, they'll usually switch at that point ;>. I cherish the memory of the call from my French bank years ago, when those Nigerian bastards were hacking my account, where she greeted me and identified herself cheerfully in French, and apparently divined from the slightly desperate note of my "uh, bonjour..." that je ne parle pas tres bien le francais, and continued cheerfully in English, to my undying gratitude.
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