I agree about no need to speak French at CDG, although security screeners and border police like to pretend they speak little to no English (I literally had one border agent who couldn't figure out how to ask me when I'd entered the Schengen zone without turning to his neighbor and asking for help.)

I had to do 2F-2E(28-47) yesterday connecting from LAX to LHR. It was confusing, and I thought I knew my way around CDG. (Well, honestly, I was expecting 2E-2E since that's what I did with LHR-CDG-ORD a week earlier, but I've done other transits there before pretty easily. It seems that maybe we came into 2F because we were late and they needed the aircraft there for its next flight or didn't have a free gate at 2E, as the AF site indicates all US flights use 2E.) If you're stuck doing 2F to the low 2E gates, you find yourself (at least where I entered the transit area) with signs for the high 2E gates and random 2E arrow signs, but it's hard to figure out where you're going for the low 2E gates. Eventually, you notice this little door that enters what appears to be a corridor but is actually a stairway/escalator down to a bus area and there are signs there suggesting that it's the right way for the low 2E gates. I then took it two stops around to the low 2E gates area, went up and cleared security, and then proceeded to the lounge for a shower before heading to the gate. I have no idea if this bus route was the fastest way, but it was the only thing I could figure out that came close to following the signs. (What is it with the French and using arrows that point down to mean "Go straight ahead"?)

The good news for angelacustoda (Welcome to FT, btw!) is that with my delayed arrival from LAX, my 2F-2E connection time had been reduced to roughly what is in the itinerary posted. I had time for a (quick) shower, so the connection should definitely be doable, especially if not to the low 2E gates.