It sometimes makes it easier! --- Spanish has the same difference as vous/tu in French.

For us it feels natural to address someone we don't know/who is older/who has a higher rank with "vous". It is a way to show respect - And one sometimes feel its absence in English! It feels a bit weird to address someone very senior in the same way we would address a friend.

A curiosity: some prehispanic languages like náhuatl had a reverential form - A level above "vous".

Source author: Liliana Oliva Bernal loliva@sre.gob.mx