Hi, a good way for expatriates to go out and meet people is to look for a group in the website http://www.meetup.com. This site hosts voluntary associative groups that share a common interest like for example language conversation or yoga or dancing. It is a very well known site in the anglophone countries (the site was started in New York) and is increasing fast in france as well. In Paris there are already a lot of groups for expats to go out, for language conversation, for country community gathering, to interact with french people, for leisure activities, etc.

I am the organiser of a salsa group called "Paris Salsa Meetup Group" (http://www.meetup.com/The-Paris-Salsa-Meetup-Group/) that aims to organise salsa "meetups" either to take salsa classes or go to salsa clubs in Paris as a group, that is more fun and also interesting to meet people as well. As a matter of fact there are a lot of expatriates in the group due to the fact probably that many foreigners know Meetup and it is even more well known among expatriates in general.

 

Hello

In Toulouse You can go to the "cafe des langues" to take a drink and meet people from everywhere, they even have dictionnaries on tables!
You also have "the Danu an irish pub", it's an english spoken place.
"The Mulligan's" organise Quizz in english.

Voilà!

Yam