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People’s Reaction When You Start Speaking Their Language.
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The French is on point. I live in Quebec, I speak French all day, but it’s not my first language. When I was in Paris, I started speaking French, but they kept answering me in English.
Paris
That’s the problem right there. They tend to be subbing asinine whatever language you speak.
And of course they’ll complain about your French accent while speaking to you with an even worse English accent with no self awareness whatsoever.
I’m speaking of Parisian assholes here of course, I’ve heard the rest of the country is actually quite pleasant (and also tend to dislike Parisians) but I haven’t visited yet, only Paris unfortunately.
Ireland should be blue, referencing irish. I assume they are only considering English.
Good point, and I imagine an Irish person would find that oversight par for the course, but I’m guilty too, so no shade. At least now we’re thinking about it. Small steps.
Hey, at least there is a border marked, so not completely forgotten. I imagine it’s similar in other countries with more than one language. The main, high or common language vs the local language.
Hey, at least there is a border marked
Yeah, right through the north of the country for some reason.
Through the north of the island. Since good Friday agreement, they are two different countries. Republic of Ireland no longer claims northern Ireland.
26+6=1
gellir dweud yr un peth am Gymru
Indeed, my Welsh Celtic cousin.
I’m a German native and understanding bad German is sometimes damn near impossible. It’s easier for me to understand bad English.
Same here but the regular bad English can be really annoying.
Yeah in my experience trying to learn some German if it’s not pronounced 100% perfectly Germans straight up don’t understand a word you’re saying. And of course as a native English speaker it’s literally impossible for me to make those sounds 100% perfectly. Gave up pretty quickly and just continued speaking English with all my German friends lol.
I wonder what’s different with German that makes it so hard to understand when not spoken perfectly… I feel like I could absolutely butcher Spanish pronunciation when I was first learning and everyone understood me fine. And I can understand butchered English just fine as well. But mess up one vowel in German and it’s like you spoke Chinese or something haha.
I hope you can understand what I’m trying to say but for me it feels like in German I’m not so much listening to each word but to the sounds someone makes and when grammar, pronunciation and/or accentuation are off it gets difficult. Kind of like linguistical muscle memory maybe?
Finnish: accurate
