Hey man, I listened to it.
First of all you voice and tonality is good, you sound fairly relaxed and cheerful with a deep voice. I think you could definitely speak slower though, sometimes it's quite fast.
On top of that you have a very strong accent that's a bit hard to understand. When you told her she looks 'relaxed and calm' I had to rewind a couple of times because I couldn't tell what you were saying. I think this contributed to her initial confusion.
What made this initial confusion worse is that you repeated yourself a lot of times (throughout the whole approach actually). It makes you sound nervous and insistent, especially together with the way you talked fast. I'd suggest letting a bit of silence develop (especially before repeating yourself). Let her know that you are comfortable and that she can be comfortable too, even if you aren't understanding each other perfectly.
Instead of repeating yourself so many times, I'd suggest:
- Say things in a different way (opportunity to pause, think, and then speak again, relaxing the vibe).
- Just move to an easier topic for a moment (for example, when you told her that you wanted to say hi, she immediately responded and sounded more relaxed, because that's easy to understand and respond to).
- Or tease her (or yourself) a little, like "you haven't heard such a strong accent before have you?"
Next, the whole thing about teaching you french was not good. She's still feeling a bit of confusion about the approach, and you're asking for investment from her (to teach you french) when you never showed any real interest in languages or the french language in particular. It comes across as a cheap way of continuing the conversation. "Oh you're french? Teach me french". Yeah, ok, she's thinking, you don't actually want to know french.
It would be ok if you started off asking her to teach you, and then went and had some fun with the topic. E.g.
You: "Teach me french"
Her: "I can't teach you"
You: "I'm a good pupil, even you can teach me, I'll do all my homework"
Her: "Oh?"
You: "Are you a good student?"
Her: "..."
Remember you always want to go from
factual stuff like "I'm french" to "what sort of girl are you?" stuff as soon as possible.
Finally the whole thing asking her what activities to do locally to meet people, after finding out she's french and leaving tomorrow, is just awkward. She clearly isn't from there, she needs this info more than you do. A bit of a faux pas there mate.
I think the main issue here was that she was confused at the beginning, and you never managed to direct the conversation to something she was comfortable with and that made sense to her. This is more conversation skills than anything else. You need to be able to read someone, understand their perspective, and find a way to maneuver things to a point where they feel comfortable and able to participate in a successful way. Instead you asked for investment she couldn't give you, and then asked her for knowledge that she didn't have, and she just felt like she couldn't comply positively with anything, making her more and more nervous.
At the end she sounded genuinely happy that you'd approached her, but the conversation was just too awkward at that point.
No biggie, it happens! Onto the next one.
