Sure, many Canadians do it everyday ;)

Beside it, there are 300 million French speakers worldwide today, up almost 10% since 2014, and a recent survey showed that 44% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa.

By 2050, a full 85% of French speakers could live on the continent, according to an estimate by an organisation that monitors statistics on who speaks the language.

Pro tip: memorize the “stop words” (ie closed word classes: prepositions, pronouns, determiner, function words, modal verbs) of romance languages and you’ll be able to comprehend almost all simple text in all of them.

“Trust me, I’m European”.