@@type-moonarchive8878 teach me German, you available Saturdays? Really appreciate it. I think it's awesome how you're actually offering help because if you weren't it would just seem like you wanted an excuse to boast, but I know that isn't the case.
Ya know, as a portuguese dude it always hurts me when english speakers fail to do the "nh" sound (because I dont have spanish keybord, no n with that funny thing above)
Xar Xi to be honestly in the nordic countries its not abnormal for people to know and speak many languages i myself speak and understand 5 languages because many of the nordic languages are the same but with small differences
I'm from Slovakia, but can speak english fluently. I was at the movies this year to watch Avengers: Endgame with my brother. We were watching move trailers that they play before the movie starts and they played a trailer for a slovakian movie. I leaned to my brother to jokingly tell him "looks like a shit movie" in english, because it's an ongoing joke between us to mock slovakian movies. We also speak english together a lot instead of our own mother language. This random guy next to me looks over at me after I said that, then turns to his friends and says "fucking foreigners" in slovakian. Me and my brother both heard how insulted he sounded and laughed. I then told my brother "it actually looks like a cheap movie" in slovakian and the guy next to me turned dead in face after realising we understand him
Omg Slovaks trashing on Slovak movies because they ARE shitty xD inak ja a moja najlepšia kamarátka taktiež niekedy "speakujeme" po anglicky a len čakáme kedy sa aj nám takéto dačo stane
My teacher came back from a trip to Morocco and claimed he could speak Arabic. He decided to get into a conversation with me and he was alright-ish, although his accent and pronounciation was horrible. He asked me to speak formal Arabic with him so I did. I could tell that he wasn't understanding me so I took advantage of that and told him that I was done with the school and wanted to kill myself. He replied to me in English saying: "Excellent, excellent. Wow, that's great!"
hakitamintsu uchnamsen I hate when people talk about the accent. He said he could speak the language (IK he couldn’t but that’s not my point) not he had a good accent
@@sunwardmean5167 I apologize if I have offended you in any way. I just wanted to say that because he thought he could speak the language properly, he tried too hard in my opinion to sound Arabic therefore the pronounciation and accent suffered as a result. Apologies once again.
So we were on a plane and I was sitting with my sister in one row and my mum in the next. This boy sat down next to her who was about my age, and my mum turns to me and says audibly in Hebrew "he's pretty cute, wanna swap?" We laugh about it for a little bit, but stop as soon as he turns to his mum and speaks to her in Hebrew. He's now my boyfriend.
Sandtrooper I don’t think they ever addressed it, just kind of avoided the whole thing while we were dating 😂 mum likes to brag sheet brought us together 😂😂
OMFG! I'm Filipino, besides speaking English, I'm also fluent in Spanish as I have been taught by my mestizo grandfather growing up. I have tons of stories like these but the best and funniest one happened at the mall. My brother (who can also speak Spanish) and I accompanied our Mom while she was shopping for shoes. As our Mom browsed for shoes, my brother went out to buy some food and I went to sit on one of the chairs, where people sit to try on their shoes. Then this couple came over and asked a saleslady in broken english if they can get a different shoe size for the shoe they were holding. As the saleslady went away, the couple started staring at me and started commenting on how I look in Spanish. They talked about why I dyed my hair blue, that I was maybe part of some cult or a gang, and wondered how my parents tolerated me for dyeing my hair..and so on. When my brother came back with food, that's when I started to embarrass them. "Brother, you're back." I said in full-on Spanish loudly, making sure they could hear me. At first, my brother was confused and answered in VIsayan-Filipino dialect like, "Why tf are you speaking Spanish?" And I answered in Spanish: "Because this couple thinks I didn't understand them. Does dyeing my hair really makes me part of a cult?" My brother laughed so hard and replied in Spanish. "They're stupid for thinking that. F*cking Judgemental people." And the couple apologized to me afterwards.
They’re always sorry when they get caught!!!! Tbh, I think that’s the only reason they’re sorry, because they got caught! As someone who is Puerto Rican/Cuban/Black, I’m so sorry they had the nerve to say such things about you as though they knew you or something. Hopefully that experience with you taught them a lesson and they won’t pull such bullshit like that ever again with anyone. You just don’t do it lol.
In case my username doesn’t give it away, I am Japanese. However, in case this comment doesn’t give it away, I’m fluent in English (and Korean but that doesn’t not play a role in this encounter) as well. One afternoon, I used to work at a Starbucks and this one day a tourists came up to me and proceeded to ask for a Caramel Latte in very broken Japanese. And like a good employee, I began to set up the order and left the register to make it. As I did, I heard the man compliment the way my hair fitted well with my curves in English. Another tourist who was with him told him that his remark was rude. He responded saying, “So what? She probably doesn’t understand English.”. I only grinned and finished making his Latte. When I made the callout, I said the whole thing in English. He came up to me and said thank you in very broken Japanese again. I only smiled as he took it and said, “I hate to break it to you sir, but if you struggle with Japanese you can just ask if any of us know basic English. By the way, your friend there was right. That remark you made flattered me, but I’m afraid I’m taken. Have a good rest of your day!” And then I turned around. His tourist friend was cracking up and when I looked up before leaving, that man’s face was flushed of all color. I’ve never been more proud.
So I was watching (more like making it a background sound, cuz I was folding clothes) this Korean TH-camr's live broadcast. There's no eng sub but majority of his viewers don't speak Korean. At first, he was talking about stuffs like school or part time jobs he did. But later on, he was suddenly became quite so I had to check on the screen. He was still there but was seriously reading the comments. Some of his Korean viewers were trash talking about the other subscribers that don't speak Korean. Like how they shouldn't be watching the live because they're stupid and wouldn't understand it anyways. When the rude commentors were going too far, the TH-camr called them out softly at first. That's were I got the gist of it that something went wrong. ( I understand Korean about 80%) But those commentors keep going. The youtuber suddenly spoke in english and tried to apologize in behalf of his rude viewers. He ended his live immediately because he knew that some of us can understand Korean almost fluently and he said that he doesn't want to create a community that allows hatred. Props to him for actually speaking out. As well as being a good mediator to his viewers. 😢👍
I'm Italian, and this summer I went to study in England for two weeks. We're eating in the city centre, one of my friends sitting on my best friend's lap. Two Italian guys pass by as we were talking and English and say "those two are lesbians" in Italian. My best friends looks at them while they walk away, smiles and yells out "AND ALSO ITALIAN" in Italian. Still laughing to this day. Also one time in Spain I was trying to order something and I panicked so I was stuttering a lot. So the employee started telling his co-workers I couldn't speak Spanish and making fun of me because of it in Spanish. I forgot about being anxious and at some point I lost it, so I started to shame him in a fluent Spanish. I think I've never been so rude to someone before.
A few years back: My mom isn't from Malaysia but my dad is. I speak 3 languages fluently, once me and my mom walked into a store in a mall as she wanted to buy some traditional dresses for work as she's an ESL teacher. the girls in the store were Malay. Thinking I didn't understand them, they went on and on about how dumb we were to walk in here and to try to even wear their traditional dress. Also they would give us tourist prices instead of local prices. then commented about my mom's natural curly hair and my natural wavy hair. Of how we got it done professionally and we must be rich and what not. I kept listening and listening. Then came time to check out. I smiled at the girl at the cashier and spoke to her in Malay. The three girls working there turned pale and stuttering as she said how much it was then I smiled as I said, "is this tourist price or local price?" and she said local price, so my mom paid with her card. I also added that, our hair is natural as my mom is middle eastern and my dad is Malaysian. also told them to never under estimate people cause this is Malaysia and people do pick up Malay. They apologized and we walked out of the store. Told my mom later about it as we settled down to eat lunch together, we just laughed about it. Me and mom do that sometimes, we let them talk about us before I take the lead and they get burned!
I can speak alot of languages. I can speak: Australian American Canadian English And new zealandish Edit: this is the most liked comment I've ever posted thanks
I was on a group holiday in france with my school around 4 or 5 years ago and we went shopping in a little village just a way from where we were staying. (everyone on the trip spoke a little bit of french because it was a trip for the french class), we had a look round and walked into this really cute little shop that sold like crystals and witchcraft type stuff and nothing had a price label on it. my freind decided she wanted to buy this big fuck off lump of quartz and asked the women behind the till how much it cost in english. The women behind the till asked the other women, who was sat like futher back behind the counter. "How much can we charge for this" (in french), the other women quickly hushed her and replied this time in spanish "they're on a trip to france, they speak french idiot. dont be so stupid.", they have a little conversation about how much they can charge "the forgeiners" and the "silly little girls", they basically end up rounding the price up from about €5 to €15. So the cashier lady then turns to my freind and tells her in english, "that'll be €15, would you like to buy anything else?". So me and my freind are both half Spanish, and its actually her first language (my second), and she turns to the cashier and says, in spanish "I'll give you €7.50, for the rock and one of those necklaces", the cashier with like shaky hands at this point and a bright red face reaches out and picks up one of the blue coloured necklaces. and I can see that my freinds got a cheeky little grin on and wanted to rub in the she understood everything they just said, so she stops the cashier and says "No no, not blue." and I chipped in and said - ofc in Spanish - "I think the green one would go much better with you skin tone". the lady behind the till is literally beat red now and the other women has disappeared into the back room, and at this point our other freinds, who speak only a few words of spanish where just chipping in with "yes" and "no" and some colour suggestions here and there until we worked through all the colours and eventually narrowed it down to either pink or green and this whole things been going on for maybe 4/5 minutes now and the women just kind of snaps and says in english "You can have both the necklaces, and the rock for €7.50 if you leave right now" . so my freind took that deal and we all ran out the shop the moment she paid. we still laughs about it
This reminds of something that happened to me last year. I just started middle school last year, my best friends came to the same school as I did, and we would usually speak in English (we're Indonesian). Around the first week, I had refused to socialize with people I wasn't familiar, when they spoke to me, I simply nodded my head in reply, and I only had conversations with my friends (in English, of course), so my entire class thought that I was from America or something. One day, this guy from another class who has never seen or heard of me before, complimented my drawing in Indonesian, I was about to thank him, but one of my classmates pulled him over and loudly whispered that I wasn't able to understand. But the guy didn't believe my classmate and asked me if it was true (in Indonesian), and again, once I was about to reply, my classmate pulled him again and told him the same thing. I was unbelievable annoyed at that point, I immediately shouted "Siapa bilang gw gak bisa bahasa Indonesia? Gw asli orang Indonesia kok" ("Who said I couldn't speak Indonesian? I am Indonesian after all" (I used a little bit of Indonesian slang on that so don't bother to Google translate it since it won't give you a proper answer). My classmate became very embarrassed and the guy from the other class laughed at him.
Idk why, but vietnamese people assume that if ur a kid who's quiet in the corner, even if you're vietnamese yourself, you don't speak vietnamese. They're always impressed for no reason when I have an actual conversation with them. It's weird.
Lily Heart yeah! I went to a PHO restaurant two days ago and I wanted a fork for my sister who can’t use chopsticks. I went up to the register guy and asked for a fork. The old man just talked with me for a while about how my Vietnamese is good. All I said was “ can I please have a fork” in viet.
I'm Mexican, but I fluently speak English. My Spanish is very broken, but I understand a lot of it. I was on a school bus, headed home, and I was sitting with my friend. They are white and have a bold sense of fashion that a lot of people judge. Anyways, there is a Mexican boy and girl sitting in front of us, on opposite sides of each other. The girl was insulting my friend's clothing and fake piercings, saying that they looked tacky and stupid. I interrupted her, in English, saying 'You're being very rude, you know that?' She just looked taken aback and then quickly apologized. My friend was very visibly confused 😂 Edit: Wow, this really got a lot of attention.. Thanks for all the likes guys!
I grew up in the Netherlands and my mom was Russian so I grew up learning Russian and Dutch, I was at some park in my city when two Russian eldery ladies sat on a bench and when I walked by I heard them talking trash about the way I looked. I don't like to disrespect eldery people but this was getting on my nerves, I stood still and looked at both of them. I then said in Russian "look at yourself before making harsh comments about people". The looks on their faces made me satisfied.
I speak 7 languages so I have a.lot of accidents like this one of them was when I was in france and I only spoke in English because I wasn't confident in french yet so I went my sister to buy a dress for her wedding and the shop owner started saying that he should double the price of it so I understood that and I Didn't say anything until we had to pay I spoke in french and said don't even try to double it😂 OMG every time I remember his and the worker face I can't stop laughing
I speak 4 languages fluently, and one of them is Chinese. One time me and my mom went to a nail salon. They started talking about how skinny I was and how my mom doesn’t feed me well. Then they started talking about my moms appearance. They said how messy her hair was, how dried it look, and how bad her nails looked. I didn’t say anything until my mom got up to wash her hands and I looked the workers dead in the eye and said in chinese “Sorry but I have hyperthyroidism, and my mom feeds me quite well. My mom had a very stressful day and work and that is why her hair was messy, so I wanted her to get her nails done. If your going to talk about someone make sure they don’t understand you next time.” They turned pale, and when my mom got back I spoke to her in chinese and said “Some people are so rude, I don’t think we should leave them a tip.” After we got our nails done they apologised to my mom and I.
I was in my history class with a new teacher and while she was doing the register someone jokingly said 'hello' in Japanese and my teacher stopped and said 'how are you. Get on with your work'. In Japanese. Obviously nobody knew what she just said.
I am from a small city in Catalonia so I have 2 mother languages and I also speak English fluently. I work in a butchery and some day an elderly couple from the UK came to buy some meat, but they didn't speak any Spanish or Catalan, they were talking to each other to figure out how to tell me what they wanted. So I started talking in English to them and their faces just turned into a big smile. They told me they were on vacation and had troubles with the language, so we talked for 10 minutes or so after they bought what they needed. They came back 3 more days just to speak some English with someone else than themselves before leaving to the UK. I really enjoyed meeting them and I believe they also did.
I'm a German travelling in Australia. The other day I was in a hostel in my dorm. There were four other Germans there, two of them girls. One of them kept trash talking about me, even though she didn't know me at all and hadn't even tried to talk to me. She blamed me for their spilled drinks (which they weren't supposed to have in the dorm btw) and for rubbish that was laying around their bunks. She also made comments about my shaved head and baggy clothes and how I looked like a homeless. The other girl seemed quite nice though, so I talked to her in German while the others were gone. As the first girl came back, I overheard the other one telling her on the hallway I was a German and could understand her. She said she didn't want to sleep in our room anymore and would check out the next day, which she did. That was really quite amusing.
Story time: I can speak korean fluently and I went to korea to attend some kind of study fair. We were at the hotel elevator and my friends and I were wearing our traditional costumes as we were going go the conference hall for welcome dinner arranger by the authorities. At that time,highschoolers were there for their fieldtrip(It was in busan).We got into the same elevator with like another 5 korean girls.They told that our costumes looked funny.I heard that but I didn't respond.When I get off the elevator,I looked back at my friends and said 'What a pity.We can also speak in korean' '어떻게?우리도 한국어 잘 할수있는데..아쉽네..'in a fluent korean. The horror on their faces were priceless🤣
When I was on my third year of college I had an incident with a russian-speaking lady. What no one really knows is that I attended a boarding school where I learned Russian and could pretty much understand and speak it fluently. Since my brother and sister went to the same boarding school as I did, which means that all three of us speak in Russian as our secret language around everyone else. As I was waiting in line for a burger and fries in college cafe there was a lady behind me that was talking on the phone with someone and clearly describing how I looked and how of a terrible person I was because I was blonder and taller than she also she proceeded to call me the most terrible names I ever heard anyone say about someone and all of this was spoken in Russian language. Well just in time when she went on with her rant my sister called to ask me where we would be able to meet up to study so relentlessly I responded in Russian "hey I am in cafeteria I'll meet you at this table" and all I heard behind me was "**** she speaks Russian too" after paying for my food I turned around to her and wished her a good day in my broken Russian language. The look on her face was priceless 😂 basically don't mess with a blond because you don't know if she could be smarter than you
I was headed to my Romanian classes one day after school (in Sweden). These two girls from the class before mine walked out and started speaking in Swedish. They were talking about something weird, but I didn't really pay attention. They short after took notice of my presence, then one said to the other, "This chick just heard our whole conversation," in Romanian and then went quiet. They both looked at me and said bye in Swedish as they left, and I replied in Romanian. They both turned pale and scurried off. *Laughs in Quadrilingual*
I was on vacation at the pool of the hotel. In the pool there were a group of boys and a group of girls, all my age. I'm German. The boys were British and the girls were French. They started flirting and both couldn't speak the language of the other. That way, I heard the boys trying to come up with some cool pick up line in French. One guy is like "Oh I know one! Tu es fromage (bad French for you are cheese)". They were so proud and the girls played as if that really was a good line but laughed about them in French. I just quietly watched that drama. Definitely amusing.
I live in Jeonju which is in South Korea. I have double eyelids as my mother is English. I was at a convenience store to grab some Ramen when these adults came up to me and assumed I was English. They said “Hello where are snacks?” So me thinking they’re English I guide them over and they start to talk in Korean. They said, “She should go back to whatever country she belongs in. Stupid foreigners should learn to speak Korean.” Me being mad replied in Korean saying, “Don’t judge too quickly, maybe you should be careful what you say because you could get scolded for it one day.” They went bright red and the cashier smiled and congratulated me at the desk 😂
I was in London once with family and we were at westfield london. I speak norwegian btw. And i heard someone say in norwegian "Bloody hell there are more people here then there is in Norway"
Lova Fredby Why? 😂 Danish, Swedish And Norwegian are all similar. (One of the forms, the one that is most used, of written Norwegian is based on danish...)
I’m Polish and live in Germany, so yeah including English I know three languages, which is pretty normal in my family. So this year in Croatia I and a cousin of mine were talking in German near a pool and there were 4 Polish guys who clearly hadn’t a clue we understood them, even though we laughed at some of their jokes. Let me tell you, it’s an upsetting sight, when people want to prank you (in our case asking us out to dance and throw us in the pool*), plan everything out, only for you to say: “Nope, not today.” in their language. Two of them straight up ran way, while one of them was red as a tomato and the other looked everywhere but at us. *Music was playing in the background and one of them knew some basic things in German like: "Willst du mit mir tanzen?” (Do you want to dance with me?)
My mom and dad were born in the 1960s and this story was in like 1990 so not many people were a fan of same sex marriage. They were in Germany and my dad was like “not to be rude, BUT THOSE GIRLS ARE KISSING.” my dad went to the bathroom and the girls spoke to my my mom and were like “hahaha your husband is so funny we can speak English and understand it” and my mom started laughing with them. My dad comes out and goes PALE and is like “I am an a**”. Now, they are best friends.
I'm french and spent several months working in Sydney, Australia this ,year. I'm pretty short (4'10). One night I was walking home from work, it was a late saturday night in one of the busiest suburbs of Sydney. I was wearing my waitress uniform and I heard two guys walking behind me speaking french very casually (they were probably convinced I was australian or a non french speaker) and trying to guess my age. The conversation went like this: Guy 1: "How old do you reckon that chick is?" *laughing* Guy 2: idk man, maybe 16?" Guy 1: "are you kidding? She looks like she's 12!" I then proceeded to turn around with my best smile and tell them (in French) : "Hey nice to meet you! I'm 20 by the way :)" They looked at each other and didn't say a word as I walked off.
These are the kind of things that make me very uneasy when I'm talking to two people that know the same language I dont know and they start talking in that laguage
I am fluent in French and can understand Spanish. When I was in Mexico, which has a lot of French people, I heard two waiters that had a conversation in French and Spanish just Incase I knew one of the languages. They said I looked like a douche and I said and why do you say that? They both walked away and we got another waiter.
Apologies for the length. I was with my Mom back when this had happened. Her and I were at Target and she was shopping for a new purse because the one she had at the time was quite literally falling apart. Any who, my Mom is Puerto Rican but she looks like a white woman. Her parents, who were both born in Puerto Rico look way more Puerto Rican than their 5 kids, it’s pretty funny actually, but a lot of shit goes down as a result, shit like the coming story. So, my Mom is suuuper picky about her purses. So what she adoes when she’s in the process of picking a potential new purse is, she takes SOME of her key items from her current purse, like her wallet and makeup bag etc., and she places them in the candidate purse to see if they’ll fit while leaving some extra room or not. She happened to be doing just that when an old Spanish couple was walking by us, heading towards the exit while watching what’s going on on our end. I wave and smile at them, just being polite as Mom had always taught me and she does the same. They wave back and smile before the wife grabs her husband and pulls him along to move faster so they can go. She starts saying to her husband in Spanish, “What a shame! This woman is here in broad daylight, clearly stealing that purse! And even worse is that she’s teaching her daughter this shameful behavior!! My God, let’s get out of here!!” My Mom, having heard every word this woman assumed and spouted to her husband, put the purse down, turned to her and replied to her in Spanish, “Excuse me, I would never steal let alone teach my daughter that it’s ok to. If you’re so concerned with what I’m doing as a “moral-less” mother, why would you leave instead of reporting me to an employee or manager?” That woman’s face went as white as milk before turning red as an apple with embarrassment, it was such a sight!!! Her husband started laughing and he said in heavily Spanish accented English, “This is wha’ ju get for always having someting to say about everyting ju see anyone do. This was bound to happen an’ it’s finally come to bite ju in the culo (ass) because ju don’t know when to chut up an’ mind ju business!!!” When he said bite, he raised his hand 🤚🏽 and then snapped it shut ✊🏽 when he said culo. Ngl, he made me laugh, cause he was clearly done with her triflin’ ass bullshit. That woman couldn’t leave the store fast enough, she was so embarrassed. And to be fair, I guess it could look like stealing in someone else’s eyes, but we were literally right next to the checkout lines/customer service desk. I’m sure people have done that before but damn, my Mom would never. Moral of the story? Watch what you say, kids, even in your native tongue. You never know when that someone knows exactly what you’re saying and you just might be the one who leaves embarrassed with your tail between your legs.
So I have two stories. 1.) Once, I was at a dinner, and I was sitting next to these two German guys. Guess what? I speak fluent German and ASL. These guys next to me were talking with each other in German about how ugly I was and how I must have been hurt on my face when I was young, because it was so screwed up. They had no clue I knew what they were saying. It continued on like this for the entire dinner, and when it was over, I was leaving and one of the guys said "You dropped your coat!" In heavily accented English. I picked it up and said, "Thank you, have a wonderful night." In perfect German. The guy and his friend's faces turned beet red, then ghostly pale. I just walked away confidently as they discussed in German how embarrassed they were, so I shouted back "Du solltest sein! Gute Nacht!" (you should be, goodnight). They were mortified. 2.) Another time, I was visiting my aunt who is blind and deaf. Because of this, she has to have caretakers with her at all times, and everyone in the family has to know how to speak ASL. One of her caretakers was fairly new, and didn't know that everyone in the family spoke ASL. We were sitting outside, and she started talking about what she and her boyfriend did last night in sign language. I just sat there, sipping my tea and watching her describe in graphic detail to her friend, who did know I speak ASL, but had no clue I was watching. at one point, the girl said in sign language, "thank God for penis, who could live without it?" I just looked up and said in English, "lesbians." She looked over at me, shocked, and asked "what do you mean, lesbians?" I replied, "Lesbians can live without penis." The look on her face was priceless. For the rest of my trip, she was acting awkward around me, and wouldn't make eye contact or have a conversation. It was worth it, though.
I'm Filipino and I live in Quebec, Canada. It's a place that speaks french. One day, me and my mom were walking home and we were talking in our language. A bunch of Quebecois walked past us and I heard one of them say "You're in a french city. You should speak french" in French. Now I studied french for 2 years just so I can go to regular class. I looked at them and said "Oh yes I know how to speak french and I know 4 languages. So, you? Are you even bilingual?" in french. My mom just looked at me confused I explained it to her later on. I know that was mean but they got on my nerves.
I’m portuguese and I speak 4 languages including french. When I moved to France, first day of school, my history teacher asked me questions in english like how fluent I was, if I felt more comfortable speaking in english or in french and if I needed help understanding something to not hesitate to ask for help, and I think my classmates assumed I didn’t spoke french. So after a few days of not hearing me speak french (because I was shy) they started to talk about me, making jokes, trying to guess why I moved... and I let them, I didn’t really cared... until they started catcalling me in the middle of classes, one of them told his friends what he was going to do to me and how I was probably really wild in bed and they just laugh... so I turned around and called his name and by now everyone was looking at me (probably because I hadn’t spoke to anyone in class before) and I told him in perfect french “why would I or anyone in this room what to do anything with you?” and he just turned pale while everybody laughed... my history teacher laughed and told them that joke was on everybody how assumed I didn’t spoke french
I’ve told this story on a similar compilation before, but I’ll say it again here. I’m white Australian, in line to order Mexican food from a place that seems to hire exclusively Spanish-speaking staff (one of the many things that I love about the place as I love listening to Spanish). Anyway, I had just finished ordering my food, when the girl who was serving me and another girl from the kitchen were obviously looking at me and talking to each other in Spanish. The one in the kitchen looked me up and down and said something to the other girl, who then looked me up and down and agreed. I don’t speak Spanish, but I’ve heard enough of it spoken in American TV shows to know that whatever they said is DEFINITELY an insult along the lines of “slut” and “whore”. So I swore at them in French 😂😂 Also, a more wholesome one. I worked in retail, and every so often I would come across customers who speak French. I never let on that I studied French, out of fear that they would then try and communicate with me (I can understand French, but when speaking the grammar becomes jumbled in my mind and I often end up sounding stupid). Anyways, I was ringing up the items for a couple from the French-speaking part of Belgium, and every so often they would talk amongst themselves in French while still talking to me in English (they were still very polite in French and weren’t making rude comments). Suddenly, the woman yells something like « oh mon dieu mon chéri j’ai oublié quelque chose ! J’ai oublié le chocolat ! » I didn’t know how to tell her in French that she could run and get it, and she was fluent in English, so I just kept a blank expression and said “if you’ve forgotten something, you can go and get it if you want?” Perhaps she had an inkling that I understood her, I’ll never know. All I know is that she was so happy that she could go and get the chocolate 🙂🙂 I’m now wondering what the massive Brazilian community has been saying about myself and my old coworkers 😂😂
So im half Swiss and Thai. I look More European than Asian ( still looked Asian) but with tan skin because it’s common for Thai people to be tan. I speak fluent English because I go to an international school and I’m able to speak german and Thai because of my parents. In July I went to seven eleven to get a slurpee and it was on a Wednesday, I was waiting in line to pay for my slurpee when the lady next to me, paying at another counter, turned and eyed me. I didn’t think much because Thai people look at mixed people as foreigners, bUT then all of a sudden she said "Jesus Christ kids these days are skipping school thinking it’s cool. Their parents are not teaching them properly“ in Thai. You see Thai schools are in session when summer is occurring in America and such places ( their summer holidays are at the end of March till the start of May). So, I decided to respond with “You know, international schools exists right? So maybe you should shut your mouth“ And deadass her mouth hung open when I said that. The girl who was behind the counter I was using deadass giggled- I will never forget this moment-
I'm going to Greek in few months as a exchange student for few weeks. I've been learning Greek for a year soon and I'm totally not telling anyone including my host family. Can't wait.
Saana I think thats the wrong way to start the relationship with your host family. Most host families go into hosting because they really want the students to have a successful experience.
One time, I was on vacation with my family in Tunisia. We have booked a 2 day long Sahara tour in a local travel office. Being a Hungarian, I was quite surprised when another Hungarian family joined the tour as well (they were barely speaking any other language than Hungarian). The little boy there was really scared of the local Arabs and was constantly crying about his insecurity for his father. During the second day, the father had enough and said " shut up or these Arabic nomads are going make a stew of you". The boy basically shat his pants and grabbed onto his teddy bear. Our local guide - Hassan - suddenly busted out laughing. As it turned out he studied economics in a Hungarian university and more or less understood everything we were talking about during the trip. He claimed that this was the most racially funny thing he's ever heard.
I'm German and English is my second language. When I was 14 I went on an exchange to Edinburgh. After a few months in my new class we got two new students, two girls. One korean and one chinese. My friend introduced them to me, my friend said "This is Laura she is an exchange student from Germany.". They politely introduced themselves. In break they set next to me on a bench and started to talk about me in korean, they said some mean things like "she is so ugly" or "why does Amber like her she is so annoying". By the time we had to go back inside, I stood up and said to them (in korean) "Its not nice to say such things about a person you never really talked to and don't know them." Their faces went pale and they went inside very quickly and apologized in the next break. Sorry for my bad grammar 😅
A wholesome one: My grandfather and his brother speak French, but not English. I speak English, but not French. We also share another language, but that's beside the point. So, we were traveling in the Netherlands and wanted to order some food. As none of us know dutch, I proceeded to translate our order to English for the guy at the counter, and he didn't really understand English very well. My grandpa and his brother start talking to each other in french about something, and it turns out that the dude at the counter also speaks French. After that discovery, we had a way easier time placing our order.
Honestly the people in these stories have so much patients and temper control. Like someone be talking crap about them and they just they there politely and in the end they casually reveal that they understood everything people said and just leave. If i was in that situation, I would just storm up to the rude people and roast them with every roast i could possibly think of.
There was this one time me and my friend went into a store. For background, we both look Asian but aren't. I'm a local and she's a tourist. Which means a speak the local language. We enter this shop and say hello in English and we're just browsing. The sales assistant asks if they can help and we simply say we're still looking. They start speaking in the local language between them and I hear everything they're saying. So, so rude. I just told my friend to leave and go to another shop. I didn't even bother to say that I could perfectly understand what they were saying. I simply think that it's so sad and I feel pity for these such small minded people. People who think others won't understand what they're saying. What pissed me off more was that I used to buy at this shop but now I cant, I'm boycotting them for their rudeness towards potential customers. Intimissimi, your sales staff totally suck
I’m Dutch and one time me and my family went to Dubai on vacation. We went to the big water park one day when we were there and for some reason I can’t remember my brother went on a slide without me. He stood directly behind 3 Dutch kids with one guy the same age as my brother. They assumed he was from Dubai because he spoke crappy English to some other tourist that was in line earlier (my brother was like 10 at the time). They started making jokes about him. When it was their turn to go on the slide it turned out that you’ve got to have 4 people to go on the raft that you had to go in to to go on the slide. They asked my brother since he was alone “do you want to go with us?” To which he replied in Dutch “Yeah that’s fine, bc I’m alone”. They all laughed about it and they apologized to my brother and they kept in touch till this day. My brother is almost 19 now.
Came across a bunch of guys in Italy, they were like 'look at that yummy girl' I went all the way to them and start introduce myself in Italian Yes. I speak English, Italian and Vietnamese. Try me 🙂
When i was in Rome, i visited a small souvenir shop because it had some football shirts. The only person working in that shop was a vietnamese girl and she could speak at least 5 languages fluently. She would switch from one language to another effortlessly, answering random customers' questions. I was totally impressed by that girl. Think she speaks more that 5 languages. And she was really attractive to boot.
Annalaura Greco I’ve just been watching videos as i don’t know anyone who speaks the language. That would be great if you could help! Although I am definitely a beginner and don’t know much
It’s happened to me before, I’m English and I speak Korean, french and mandarin. I was in a nail shop in England and this really good looking guy kept looking at me when he was doing my cousins nails (I was waiting for her). Him and his work mate kept staring at me and kept speaking in mandarin saying,” I was hot and that they wouldn’t mind tapping that.” I said,” thanks but no thanks.” With a smile and omg they went really red in the face 🤣. Talk about fuck boys 🤣
My cousin is insanely tall even for a white person. He lives in japan, and everyone he meets is so shocked when this giraffe walks towards them and starts conversing in fluent Japanese.
One time when I was in Fiji with a school group, one of my friends wanted to go and get another donut (which were really delicious) and our guide told him what to say in Fijian (even though it was unnecessary as most Fijians can speak very good English but its considered nice when you can speak their language). When he went up to one of the ladies who had been handing out the donuts, he asked in Fijian but his pronunciation was slightly off and instead for donuts, he asked for testicles. After that, it became a joke for us to start calling donuts "testicles".
Me: ( Portuguese girl living in german) I'm in one store buing groceries when I heard 2 men speaking in Portuguese that I had a great ass and they just wanted to slap it, they thought I was german and didnt understand a word they said. I just look back and say in Portuguese " next time be sure no one understands you pigs " they felt so bad that they offered to pay my groceries.
One time my Aunt and her daughter were going to visit the U.S. for some reason. KEEP IN MIND they are from Mexico and they speak broken English. When they arrived at the border, the police officer asked my Aunt “Do you speak English?”. My Aunt simply said “ Yes my Darling” in a sweet but broken English . The officer smiled and let her through, but when her daughter tried to follow her the officer told her to wait. Although it’s pretty funny how my Aunt was able to pass through, it shows that kindness never hurts when you’re traveling to new places.
9:40 The french prononciation by an english automatic voice is priceless. Cupcakelimao (OP of this story) if you see that comment, your french is indeed broken but keep up the good work ! The correct sentence is "Ces filles pensent que personne ne les comprend. Connasses.". "Croient" was rightly written but incorrect in this context, it means "believe" not "think".
Im french canadian but lived in korea for 3 years and learned spanish in elementary so i speak all 4 of those languages and since I am in the Kpop comunity I tend to see alot of people pretending to know korean typing korean giberish saying it means hello ect...its quite funny also in discord alot of people who want a reason for bad grammar say oh sorry im french and when i speak french they dont answearXD i have only one example for spanish and thats when my spanish teacher once was talking to the student teacher and me being pretty much the only one to be fluent but they didnt quite know that since it was a new teacher anyways she told the student teacher "lets skip this lesson they dont understand anyways they are weak and they dont listen" I let out a laugh and other students were confused but im pretty sure the teacher realised lmao"
i live in germany and speak perfect german but i was born in peru and speak spanish as well once, one vacations in peru i was at the market with my family and i just bought something and talked a bit with my fathers wife in german suddenly this peruvian guy comes out of nowhere and asks me in a broken german if i just bought that and tells me he would show me how he could get better prices for me, turns around and bargains a price for the exact same item i just got myself... when he proudly turns around and tells me i would never get a better price the lady tells him he should "ask his german friend for advice on haggling" and i just smile and go away
I imagine regardless of if you can speak the native language of a place, being polite and trying not to waste someone's time would tend to get you pretty far.
Wholesome story... I was living in Hawaii at the time, going to university to learn Japanese. There are a lot of Japanese tourists in Hawaii. One day I'm running errands, passing through the Iolani Palace area of Honolulu, and while waiting for a light I notice a Japanese couple that looks very lost. The guy timidly approaches me and asks in very broken English where they are and gestures at the map they're holding. My spoken Japanese tended to suck, but luckily, we were studying directions so it was fresh in my mind, and I've been told my accent is great and my mannerisms are spot on. I give a slight bow, tell them I'm happy to help, point out where they are on the map, what direction they should go to get to the mall, and was able to suggest a bus to them if they didn't want to walk. They were stunned but so, so happy. Another quick story; I went into a shop in Waikiki to grab a treat for my coworkers, paid for it, turned around, and found the shop stuffed wall to wall with Japanese tourists. I slipped through, murmuring "すみません！" ("excuse me!"), and they parted, but I heard a wave of shocked commentary over the fact it was a white girl speaking Japanese! Made me laugh all the way back to my shop.
I remember one time I was walking home and in front of me, there were two girls that were both in my class. Both of them started talking in Spanish and since we both stopped because of red light due to that I could decipher what they were saying. Turn out they were talking trash about me. So I turned to them and said, "Nice to know what you think of me." in Spanish and walked away. To say the least they avoided me the rest of the year.
The story I'm gonna tell is quite crazy. I'm French, but I speak more often English because it's more simple. This happened when I was like 9, so my level in English wasn't as good as know, but I was better than every others kids of my age. I was on a trip in an Englishspeaking island, with my parents, and we were on the beach looking at the sunset. Y'know, I wasn't the type of kid to be super thin and small, I was very chubby and hella tall (I looked a 12yearold instead of a 9yearold), plus I was very ugly. Like, seriously. Doby is less ugly then me, to say. So, there was this couple who was probably American but I don't know, with their kid. (I can also put that story in an entitled parent vid..). It's important to know that my parents don't speak a word of English at all. This couple, with that plastic blond haired woman (the worst cliché I'm sorry but it's true) and that fat dude, was looking at me, idk why. Then, the woman turns to her husband and said something that I didn't hear. I was peacefully making a sand castle with others French kids, so I first didn't care about it. Then, I heard the couple laughing their ass off, so I turned around and saw them looking at me again. I looked at them back, and when the fat dude said "She's so ugly and fat, what a shame for her parents! French people are so stupid". It took a few seconds to understand that, but when I got it, I was really mad. Because first, I'm a boy (I'm trans since my youngest age), and second, don't they dare talking shit about me. I am that kind of kid with a very exploding personality, so I just gave them my darkest look, and said in a quite broken English: " Look at you! You are so fat, too. At least, me, I'm not a Barbie plastic bottle, and I'm not as thin as a stickman. You are stupid!" They looked at me with those enormous eyes, I was so angry. My mom saw my angry face, and she asked me why, I pointed at the couple while saying "C'est des méchants! Ils m'ont insulté! Ils ont dit que j'étais stupide." which means "They're bad! They insulted me! They said I'm stupid." and yknow, with that sobbing child voice.. My mom also looked at the couple badly, and let's just admit that my mom's bad look is one of the most scary things on Earth. They just shut up, and five minutes later, they were gone. Fun fact; their door was just next to ours. Btw how people could be so stupid...
My old teacher (Irish) told us a story one time. He was on holidays in Italy and was riding a cable car out to one of the islands on the coast. There were two Irish girls in the cable car who were gossiping and making remarks about people who were also in the car in fluent Irish. My teacher could understand everything they were saying about everybody but kept his mouth shut until everyone was getting off. He said to the girls - "slán, cailliní!" Which means "bye, girls!" In Irish. He said their faces were priceless once they realized he heard and understood everything.
I look Hispanic because my dad is. I lived in a Spanish-speaking apartment with my mom from age 8-10. Some boys, not suspecting I spoke English, said, "Dang, she hot. I want her to be my baby mama. Let's get her in the laundry room later." I went to the laundry room and said in perfect English, "Get the f*ck away from me." Their look of sheer terror was priceless
I used to work in Starbucks There was a girl who was obvious she was Mexican because she was struggling a lot ordering. So I said: can you repeat your order please but in Spanish (me puede repetir su orden). The girl was shocked and I kinda felt bad for her
There was a German exchange student in our school. We always talked in English and soon became friends.. One day we were sitting on the bus and talking, and there were 2 boys ahead of us, one of them wispered 'Oh look, they are not Hungarian, haha' - and they laughed Then I said - "I am tough." They were so suprised 😂😂 It was hilarious They stayed silent for the rest of the time 😂
Every year our senior class goes on a trip to London, and we went this year. During the briefing of everything we were going to do we were warned not to talk shit about people, and then our favourite teacher told us that when they were on the metro there, there was a kinda punk guy and he, himself, and the students were saying stuff about him. Then suddenly the guy stood up and said in Dutch ‘Nice kids you have there.’ And got off the metro. Other teachers make sure to remind him every year.
I speak Spanish and English but I was on the train and this girl overheard me talking Spanish as she entered the train and for some reason immediately assumes I only speak Spanish. Then pushed me, sat down, and started talking trash about me in English. When she was done I looked at her and said “ I am bilingual I know what your saying” her face was priceless🤣
much respect for bilingual and trilingual people because i am australian greek ( only half greek) and it has taken ages for me to get where i am in the greek language and i am not fluent yet so lots of respect for you guys.
@@Gabriela-x2t um well since I live in India there are like more than 200 languages spoken. So well hindi is our national language. Where I live, Marathi and Konkani are local languages. So I learnt them all along with English in school. In Indian school system, during grade eight you have to choose to learn one of selected language for three years to increase your GPA. So I selected sanskrit and my neighbour took french so we learnt them together. And since there are a lot of Spanish songs emerging in today's English pop music I kinda wanted to learn it too. You may ask if I get confused, well at times, hell yeah.
This is what I love. Finding stories I can relate to. Mine: I’ve gotten a few ‘Where are you from’s. And I so tell them I’m Ecuadorian-Greek. I know fluent English, Greek and Spanish. I was visiting some of my cousins in Argentina at the time, we had met up at a restaurant. The table next to us was some guys were talking about our looks and how cute we were, in Greek. I translated for my cousins, and they looked over and said ‘hey they’re pretty cute too.’ I tapped one of the guys and said, in Greek, ‘my cousins think you guys are cute, too.’ He turned red, and switched to English, says, ‘Can you understand me now?’ He’s got this smile on his face, like the ‘as if she’s gonna know three languages’ I smile and switch to English, too. ‘Yeah.’ I go, and we ended up merging tables, me as a translator. My cousin that spoke English ended up dating the guy I tapped. You never know. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go shopping for their wedding. Nah jk they broke up last year because he cheated 🙄. She’s over him now and I’m happy. I didn’t really like that βλάκα.
Once I was at the beach and I seen a family fluent in Spanish with a young teen cuddling with their dog, I commented about how cute it was then later realized they spoke English too oops, at least it wasn't anything bad
I had a similar experience with the foreigner and the 6-year old Japanese kid. In my case, it was a Japanese toddler at a playground. I was waiting at the park for my university circle to meet up for a hanami (cherry blossom viewing), when I heard this little girl, couldn’t have been older than 4, yell to her mom that there was a foreigner on the playground. Bemused, I turned to her, and in near-fluent Japanese told her that she was right, I am most certainly a foreigner (Scandinavian). The poor girl started bawling her eyes out and ran to her mother while screaming that the foreigner spoke Japanese... I felt so guilty for making the little girl cry, while the mom was apologizing in my general direction, white as a sheet. There were no winners that day.
I remember when someone at school asked me for directions (in Filipino language) and I replied with “ha?” since I didn’t actually hear her clearly but then I think she assumed that I’m not a Filipino due to my features and that I didn’t understand what she have said so she translates it in English; in which I replied in Tagalog. Our conversation goes by: Her: Miss, alam niyo ba kung saan ito? Me: ha?/huh? Her: Do you know where is this? Me: Ah, oo. Diretso ka diyan tapos liko ka sa may kaliwa. Us: 😐
This reminds me of a story one of my friends told me. So she moved to Germany and she had to keep attending school there and so one time when she got in a fight with one of her teachers she cursed at him in her native language and the teacher just looked up at her and ask "what did you just say?" in her native language in the tipical "care to repeat that" voice.
Trust Me speaking many languages is soooo helpful I speak 7 languages ( french, Spanish, Turkish,Arabic, English,Korean, Chinese) and I'm still learning new ones and trust me when I say that it helped me a lot 😂
@@Gabriela-x2t I learned most of them in school but 3 of them by myself it's really easy if you love the language and you want to learn it and you have a goal😄
@@Gabriela-x2t well I learned English by movies and Turkish also with the help of internet and books I think that might help you and try to make friends from other countries that speak the language you want to learn it will help you a lot😄 if you need help I will it's okay
I'm french native speaker and went in Berlin a couple years ago. I once went to a night club and came back at about 4 AM by subway, having bought a sandwich and eating it while waiting for the subway to go. These three young french girls sat just in front of me (belive me or not, they wore blue, white and red T-shirts, and in that order), and start talking about how i seem to enjoy my sandwich. The more they (drunk-)talked, saying things like "Oh, the sandwich must be soooo delicious" (one could tell they had the "Midnight hunger"), the more I was amused, and the more they interpreted that as me loving my sandwich. This got on until i finished it and told them in french that they could still buy one if they hurried up. The look on their faces was epic ^^.
I was at the Pet Shop a few months earlier, i speak fluent Cat language btw, as i was looking for a Cat to adopt, one of the cats said in fluent Cat language “look at this human, very malnourish looking, i bet his pet eats pizza while he eats Whiskas” i turned around and respond “meow moeew meoww” which means “i speak Cat language you dumbass” the cat’s face turns red and he quickly apologized. Still makes me smile every time i remember it 😆
It's rude to hear people talking about you to your face.
I do it every time facing the mirror
scheamy lmao 😂
This makes me want to learn every language
Same
Skull Killer Omg you’ll really help me? Ok when is my first lesson? I‘m free Tuesday nights if that works for you
@@type-moonarchive8878 teach me some Japanese, please
@@type-moonarchive8878 teach me German, you available Saturdays? Really appreciate it. I think it's awesome how you're actually offering help because if you weren't it would just seem like you wanted an excuse to boast, but I know that isn't the case.
Skull Killer can you teach me a bit of Japanese I’m struggling over here trying to learn it.
the pronunciation of quinceañera at 2:18 absolutely killed me
*qUeNcEeNrA*
funny as hell
*QUENCINRA*
SAME 😂
Ya know, as a portuguese dude it always hurts me when english speakers fail to do the "nh" sound (because I dont have spanish keybord, no n with that funny thing above)
how the hell do you get a wife that can speak *_11 languages_*
damn lucky 👌
tiny rampage 💀💀💀
Xar Xi to be honestly in the nordic countries its not abnormal for people to know and speak many languages i myself speak and understand 5 languages because many of the nordic languages are the same but with small differences
and even czech! its my language and its said to be one of the hardest to learn!
With that many languages I think she chose HIM
@@nbPSN i'm not sure i would count understanding swedish and danish if you're a norwegian as "knowing" the languages.
I'm from Slovakia, but can speak english fluently.
I was at the movies this year to watch Avengers: Endgame with my brother. We were watching move trailers that they play before the movie starts and they played a trailer for a slovakian movie. I leaned to my brother to jokingly tell him "looks like a shit movie" in english, because it's an ongoing joke between us to mock slovakian movies. We also speak english together a lot instead of our own mother language. This random guy next to me looks over at me after I said that, then turns to his friends and says "fucking foreigners" in slovakian. Me and my brother both heard how insulted he sounded and laughed. I then told my brother "it actually looks like a cheap movie" in slovakian and the guy next to me turned dead in face after realising we understand him
Jé, ahoj
Yup, sounds like a slovak thing to do, happened to me too lolol
Omg Slovaks trashing on Slovak movies because they ARE shitty xD inak ja a moja najlepšia kamarátka taktiež niekedy "speakujeme" po anglicky a len čakáme kedy sa aj nám takéto dačo stane
@@devilsabyss tiež by som chcela nejakú kamarátku, ktorá vie po anglicky xD Brat mi postačí snáď :D
lol nečekaně víš co nerozumíš slovenky když jdeš ve slovensku na slovenský film (dabing nebo titulky to je fuk) XD
My teacher came back from a trip to Morocco and claimed he could speak Arabic. He decided to get into a conversation with me and he was alright-ish, although his accent and pronounciation was horrible. He asked me to speak formal Arabic with him so I did. I could tell that he wasn't understanding me so I took advantage of that and told him that I was done with the school and wanted to kill myself. He replied to me in English saying: "Excellent, excellent. Wow, that's great!"
Lol
hakitamintsu uchnamsen *You are damn smart*
hakitamintsu uchnamsen I hate when people talk about the accent. He said he could speak the language (IK he couldn’t but that’s not my point) not he had a good accent
@@sandratong3481 Thanks for the acknowledgement!
@@sunwardmean5167 I apologize if I have offended you in any way. I just wanted to say that because he thought he could speak the language properly, he tried too hard in my opinion to sound Arabic therefore the pronounciation and accent suffered as a result. Apologies once again.
So we were on a plane and I was sitting with my sister in one row and my mum in the next. This boy sat down next to her who was about my age, and my mum turns to me and says audibly in Hebrew "he's pretty cute, wanna swap?" We laugh about it for a little bit, but stop as soon as he turns to his mum and speaks to her in Hebrew. He's now my boyfriend.
That's amazing story,good luck in your relationship
Sophia Periii we broke up oops
Emily L ohh
@@emilyl96 So what did he say to your mom? You can't leave it there!
Sandtrooper I don’t think they ever addressed it, just kind of avoided the whole thing while we were dating 😂 mum likes to brag sheet brought us together 😂😂
OMFG! I'm Filipino, besides speaking English, I'm also fluent in Spanish as I have been taught by my mestizo grandfather growing up. I have tons of stories like these but the best and funniest one happened at the mall. My brother (who can also speak Spanish) and I accompanied our Mom while she was shopping for shoes. As our Mom browsed for shoes, my brother went out to buy some food and I went to sit on one of the chairs, where people sit to try on their shoes. Then this couple came over and asked a saleslady in broken english if they can get a different shoe size for the shoe they were holding. As the saleslady went away, the couple started staring at me and started commenting on how I look in Spanish. They talked about why I dyed my hair blue, that I was maybe part of some cult or a gang, and wondered how my parents tolerated me for dyeing my hair..and so on. When my brother came back with food, that's when I started to embarrass them. "Brother, you're back." I said in full-on Spanish loudly, making sure they could hear me. At first, my brother was confused and answered in VIsayan-Filipino dialect like, "Why tf are you speaking Spanish?" And I answered in Spanish: "Because this couple thinks I didn't understand them. Does dyeing my hair really makes me part of a cult?" My brother laughed so hard and replied in Spanish. "They're stupid for thinking that. F*cking Judgemental people." And the couple apologized to me afterwards.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH AMPUTEK
They’re always sorry when they get caught!!!! Tbh, I think that’s the only reason they’re sorry, because they got caught! As someone who is Puerto Rican/Cuban/Black, I’m so sorry they had the nerve to say such things about you as though they knew you or something. Hopefully that experience with you taught them a lesson and they won’t pull such bullshit like that ever again with anyone. You just don’t do it lol.
You also speak Bisaya/Cebuano?
@@marsbars16 PREACH!!!
Badass
In case my username doesn’t give it away, I am Japanese. However, in case this comment doesn’t give it away, I’m fluent in English (and Korean but that doesn’t not play a role in this encounter) as well.
One afternoon, I used to work at a Starbucks and this one day a tourists came up to me and proceeded to ask for a Caramel Latte in very broken Japanese. And like a good employee, I began to set up the order and left the register to make it. As I did, I heard the man compliment the way my hair fitted well with my curves in English. Another tourist who was with him told him that his remark was rude. He responded saying, “So what? She probably doesn’t understand English.”. I only grinned and finished making his Latte.
When I made the callout, I said the whole thing in English. He came up to me and said thank you in very broken Japanese again. I only smiled as he took it and said, “I hate to break it to you sir, but if you struggle with Japanese you can just ask if any of us know basic English. By the way, your friend there was right. That remark you made flattered me, but I’m afraid I’m taken. Have a good rest of your day!” And then I turned around. His tourist friend was cracking up and when I looked up before leaving, that man’s face was flushed of all color.
I’ve never been more proud.
XD nice one :O alsooo hiii ARMY
Damn yall japanese people are really nice we all should be a bit more like you
Every country has their flaws. All we can be is respectful, honourable human beings and the best version of ourselves.
Hello, I'm a person who is really interested in learning Japanese, any recommendations on an app to learn Japanese or some kind of that?
"sa to mi a ka ri"
So I was watching (more like making it a background sound, cuz I was folding clothes) this Korean TH-camr's live broadcast. There's no eng sub but majority of his viewers don't speak Korean.
At first, he was talking about stuffs like school or part time jobs he did.
But later on, he was suddenly became quite so I had to check on the screen.
He was still there but was seriously reading the comments.
Some of his Korean viewers were trash talking about the other subscribers that don't speak Korean. Like how they shouldn't be watching the live because they're stupid and wouldn't understand it anyways.
When the rude commentors were going too far, the TH-camr called them out softly at first. That's were I got the gist of it that something went wrong. ( I understand Korean about 80%)
But those commentors keep going.
The youtuber suddenly spoke in english and tried to apologize in behalf of his rude viewers. He ended his live immediately because he knew that some of us can understand Korean almost fluently and he said that he doesn't want to create a community that allows hatred.
Props to him for actually speaking out. As well as being a good mediator to his viewers. 😢👍
Wow, who was it?
Erik Emerölduson I would also like to know. I love looking more into people I hear positive things about haha
I'm Italian, and this summer I went to study in England for two weeks.
We're eating in the city centre, one of my friends sitting on my best friend's lap. Two Italian guys pass by as we were talking and English and say "those two are lesbians" in Italian. My best friends looks at them while they walk away, smiles and yells out "AND ALSO ITALIAN" in Italian.
Still laughing to this day.
Also one time in Spain I was trying to order something and I panicked so I was stuttering a lot. So the employee started telling his co-workers I couldn't speak Spanish and making fun of me because of it in Spanish. I forgot about being anxious and at some point I lost it, so I started to shame him in a fluent Spanish. I think I've never been so rude to someone before.
Lolll
Ma AHAHAHAH
A few years back:
My mom isn't from Malaysia but my dad is. I speak 3 languages fluently, once me and my mom walked into a store in a mall as she wanted to buy some traditional dresses for work as she's an ESL teacher. the girls in the store were Malay. Thinking I didn't understand them, they went on and on about how dumb we were to walk in here and to try to even wear their traditional dress. Also they would give us tourist prices instead of local prices. then commented about my mom's natural curly hair and my natural wavy hair. Of how we got it done professionally and we must be rich and what not. I kept listening and listening. Then came time to check out. I smiled at the girl at the cashier and spoke to her in Malay. The three girls working there turned pale and stuttering as she said how much it was then I smiled as I said, "is this tourist price or local price?" and she said local price, so my mom paid with her card. I also added that, our hair is natural as my mom is middle eastern and my dad is Malaysian. also told them to never under estimate people cause this is Malaysia and people do pick up Malay. They apologized and we walked out of the store. Told my mom later about it as we settled down to eat lunch together, we just laughed about it. Me and mom do that sometimes, we let them talk about us before I take the lead and they get burned!
That's sooo rude. They should be proud that our traditional clothes dapat sambutan even tak sehebat mcm jepun punya kimono :/
Yana Dhia, Did you just say,
getting an even event wasn't as great as mcm Japan has kimono?
(idk, That's what google translate says)
derpycat101 no, she said that Malays should be proud that their traditional clothes are celebrated even though it’s not as great as Japan’s kimono
Nida Ariena Mohd Ariff which state are you from?
I can speak alot of languages.
I can speak:
Australian
American
Canadian
English
And new zealandish
Edit: this is the most liked comment I've ever posted thanks
canadian isn't english though, its a native language
@@maygreene5436 I'm Canadian and you're correct lol.
Lee Felix same
Woah how'd you learn?
@@userr2367 omg it's LE fEliX
I was on a group holiday in france with my school around 4 or 5 years ago and we went shopping in a little village just a way from where we were staying. (everyone on the trip spoke a little bit of french because it was a trip for the french class), we had a look round and walked into this really cute little shop that sold like crystals and witchcraft type stuff and nothing had a price label on it. my freind decided she wanted to buy this big fuck off lump of quartz and asked the women behind the till how much it cost in english. The women behind the till asked the other women, who was sat like futher back behind the counter. "How much can we charge for this" (in french), the other women quickly hushed her and replied this time in spanish "they're on a trip to france, they speak french idiot. dont be so stupid.", they have a little conversation about how much they can charge "the forgeiners" and the "silly little girls", they basically end up rounding the price up from about €5 to €15. So the cashier lady then turns to my freind and tells her in english, "that'll be €15, would you like to buy anything else?". So me and my freind are both half Spanish, and its actually her first language (my second), and she turns to the cashier and says, in spanish "I'll give you €7.50, for the rock and one of those necklaces", the cashier with like shaky hands at this point and a bright red face reaches out and picks up one of the blue coloured necklaces. and I can see that my freinds got a cheeky little grin on and wanted to rub in the she understood everything they just said, so she stops the cashier and says "No no, not blue." and I chipped in and said - ofc in Spanish - "I think the green one would go much better with you skin tone". the lady behind the till is literally beat red now and the other women has disappeared into the back room, and at this point our other freinds, who speak only a few words of spanish where just chipping in with "yes" and "no" and some colour suggestions here and there until we worked through all the colours and eventually narrowed it down to either pink or green and this whole things been going on for maybe 4/5 minutes now and the women just kind of snaps and says in english "You can have both the necklaces, and the rock for €7.50 if you leave right now" . so my freind took that deal and we all ran out the shop the moment she paid. we still laughs about it
This reminds of something that happened to me last year.
I just started middle school last year, my best friends came to the same school as I did, and we would usually speak in English (we're Indonesian). Around the first week, I had refused to socialize with people I wasn't familiar, when they spoke to me, I simply nodded my head in reply, and I only had conversations with my friends (in English, of course), so my entire class thought that I was from America or something.
One day, this guy from another class who has never seen or heard of me before, complimented my drawing in Indonesian, I was about to thank him, but one of my classmates pulled him over and loudly whispered that I wasn't able to understand. But the guy didn't believe my classmate and asked me if it was true (in Indonesian), and again, once I was about to reply, my classmate pulled him again and told him the same thing.
I was unbelievable annoyed at that point, I immediately shouted "Siapa bilang gw gak bisa bahasa Indonesia? Gw asli orang Indonesia kok" ("Who said I couldn't speak Indonesian? I am Indonesian after all" (I used a little bit of Indonesian slang on that so don't bother to Google translate it since it won't give you a proper answer). My classmate became very embarrassed and the guy from the other class laughed at him.
Keren dong. Gw bisa empat bahasa hehehehehe.
Wanjayyy, keren bgt cuy kwkwk
Proud to be ur fellow Indonesian hehe
@@zero_bf waah keren banget!!
@@jessiebudianto3149 Indeed my dude
Wow I'm learning Indonesian in school
Idk why, but vietnamese people assume that if ur a kid who's quiet in the corner, even if you're vietnamese yourself, you don't speak vietnamese. They're always impressed for no reason when I have an actual conversation with them. It's weird.
Lily Heart
yeah!
I went to a PHO restaurant two days ago and I wanted a fork for my sister who can’t use chopsticks.
I went up to the register guy and asked for a fork.
The old man just talked with me for a while about how my Vietnamese is good.
All I said was “ can I please have a fork” in viet.
@Death Of course it is a language. Just a bit hard to learn.
And please don't be so rude. Fellow Vietnamese here is talking to you.
Tạm biệt!
I'm Mexican, but I fluently speak English. My Spanish is very broken, but I understand a lot of it.
I was on a school bus, headed home, and I was sitting with my friend. They are white and have a bold sense of fashion that a lot of people judge.
Anyways, there is a Mexican boy and girl sitting in front of us, on opposite sides of each other. The girl was insulting my friend's clothing and fake piercings, saying that they looked tacky and stupid. I interrupted her, in English, saying 'You're being very rude, you know that?'
She just looked taken aback and then quickly apologized.
My friend was very visibly confused 😂
Edit: Wow, this really got a lot of attention.. Thanks for all the likes guys!
I grew up in the Netherlands and my mom was Russian so I grew up learning Russian and Dutch, I was at some park in my city when two Russian eldery ladies sat on a bench and when I walked by I heard them talking trash about the way I looked.
I don't like to disrespect eldery people but this was getting on my nerves, I stood still and looked at both of them. I then said in Russian "look at yourself before making harsh comments about people".
The looks on their faces made me satisfied.
I speak 7 languages so I have a.lot of accidents like this one of them was when I was in france and I only spoke in English because I wasn't confident in french yet so I went my sister to buy a dress for her wedding and the shop owner started saying that he should double the price of it so I understood that and I Didn't say anything until we had to pay I spoke in french and said don't even try to double it😂 OMG every time I remember his and the worker face I can't stop laughing
@Saphir merci beaucoup pour le moment je peut parler en français normal sans avoir honte 😂
@Saphir thank you 😄
they’re pretty stupid. “Double” is literally the same word in both languages..
@@kelnit9741 yeah exactly even my sister asked me why did they say double and she doesn't even speak French 😂
rofia aifor they’re dumb af 😭
I speak 4 languages fluently, and one of them is Chinese. One time me and my mom went to a nail salon. They started talking about how skinny I was and how my mom doesn’t feed me well. Then they started talking about my moms appearance. They said how messy her hair was, how dried it look, and how bad her nails looked. I didn’t say anything until my mom got up to wash her hands and I looked the workers dead in the eye and said in chinese “Sorry but I have hyperthyroidism, and my mom feeds me quite well. My mom had a very stressful day and work and that is why her hair was messy, so I wanted her to get her nails done. If your going to talk about someone make sure they don’t understand you next time.” They turned pale, and when my mom got back I spoke to her in chinese and said “Some people are so rude, I don’t think we should leave them a tip.” After we got our nails done they apologised to my mom and I.
I was in my history class with a new teacher and while she was doing the register someone jokingly said 'hello' in Japanese and my teacher stopped and said 'how are you. Get on with your work'. In Japanese. Obviously nobody knew what she just said.
imma have to apologise to the last dude. alot of koreans are quite racist tbh but there are some nice ones!
True I was a foreigner living in korea and i got a few stres but they are mostly just curious
Tbh indians are the same 😂
ᄒ-ᄒTaeSHOOK cause ur a koreaboo lmao
@@natdeservedbetter1633 lmao how am I a koreaboo?
nat deserved better what is a 9 year old doing here?
I am from a small city in Catalonia so I have 2 mother languages and I also speak English fluently.
I work in a butchery and some day an elderly couple from the UK came to buy some meat, but they didn't speak any Spanish or Catalan, they were talking to each other to figure out how to tell me what they wanted.
So I started talking in English to them and their faces just turned into a big smile. They told me they were on vacation and had troubles with the language, so we talked for 10 minutes or so after they bought what they needed.
They came back 3 more days just to speak some English with someone else than themselves before leaving to the UK. I really enjoyed meeting them and I believe they also did.
“no body messes with my mAmMa”
Pastel Gacha That got me laughing. 😂
I'm a German travelling in Australia. The other day I was in a hostel in my dorm. There were four other Germans there, two of them girls. One of them kept trash talking about me, even though she didn't know me at all and hadn't even tried to talk to me. She blamed me for their spilled drinks (which they weren't supposed to have in the dorm btw) and for rubbish that was laying around their bunks. She also made comments about my shaved head and baggy clothes and how I looked like a homeless.
The other girl seemed quite nice though, so I talked to her in German while the others were gone.
As the first girl came back, I overheard the other one telling her on the hallway I was a German and could understand her.
She said she didn't want to sleep in our room anymore and would check out the next day, which she did. That was really quite amusing.
omg! I can't believe people can be so rude. Sucks that it happened here in Australia too :C
Story time: I can speak korean fluently and I went to korea to attend some kind of study fair.
We were at the hotel elevator and my friends and I were wearing our traditional costumes as we were going go the conference hall for welcome dinner arranger by the authorities.
At that time,highschoolers were there for their fieldtrip(It was in busan).We got into the same elevator with like another 5 korean girls.They told that our costumes looked funny.I heard that but I didn't respond.When I get off the elevator,I looked back at my friends and said 'What a pity.We can also speak in korean' '어떻게?우리도 한국어 잘 할수있는데..아쉽네..'in a fluent korean.
The horror on their faces were priceless🤣
여자애들이 미안하다고 했어?
@@sahla5943 아니요.만약에 조금더 오래 있었다면 했을걸 같은데 저희도 기다리는 사람들 있어서 말하고 그자리 떠났어요
아마 아직 무례한 일이라고
ok idk any korean but im pretty sure ur an army- if ur not then im sorry-
@@Maria-kp4ws she is im pretty sure !
I was talking to my friend in Korean at my school and this other kid heard me and said “you speak Asian?!” 🗿
Looks like i'm trilingual now. I speak English, Malay and Asian
looks like i speak 4 languages now. i speak chinese mandarin, cantonese, english and asian
I am an American, but I do speak several languages. I have fun with people, when the think I don't understand
When I was on my third year of college I had an incident with a russian-speaking lady. What no one really knows is that I attended a boarding school where I learned Russian and could pretty much understand and speak it fluently. Since my brother and sister went to the same boarding school as I did, which means that all three of us speak in Russian as our secret language around everyone else. As I was waiting in line for a burger and fries in college cafe there was a lady behind me that was talking on the phone with someone and clearly describing how I looked and how of a terrible person I was because I was blonder and taller than she also she proceeded to call me the most terrible names I ever heard anyone say about someone and all of this was spoken in Russian language. Well just in time when she went on with her rant my sister called to ask me where we would be able to meet up to study so relentlessly I responded in Russian "hey I am in cafeteria I'll meet you at this table" and all I heard behind me was "**** she speaks Russian too" after paying for my food I turned around to her and wished her a good day in my broken Russian language. The look on her face was priceless 😂 basically don't mess with a blond because you don't know if she could be smarter than you
I was headed to my Romanian classes one day after school (in Sweden). These two girls from the class before mine walked out and started speaking in Swedish. They were talking about something weird, but I didn't really pay attention. They short after took notice of my presence, then one said to the other, "This chick just heard our whole conversation," in Romanian and then went quiet. They both looked at me and said bye in Swedish as they left, and I replied in Romanian. They both turned pale and scurried off. *Laughs in Quadrilingual*
I was on vacation at the pool of the hotel. In the pool there were a group of boys and a group of girls, all my age. I'm German. The boys were British and the girls were French. They started flirting and both couldn't speak the language of the other. That way, I heard the boys trying to come up with some cool pick up line in French. One guy is like "Oh I know one! Tu es fromage (bad French for you are cheese)". They were so proud and the girls played as if that really was a good line but laughed about them in French.
I just quietly watched that drama. Definitely amusing.
I live in Jeonju which is in South Korea. I have double eyelids as my mother is English.
I was at a convenience store to grab some Ramen when these adults came up to me and assumed I was English. They said “Hello where are snacks?” So me thinking they’re English I guide them over and they start to talk in Korean. They said, “She should go back to whatever country she belongs in. Stupid foreigners should learn to speak Korean.”
Me being mad replied in Korean saying, “Don’t judge too quickly, maybe you should be careful what you say because you could get scolded for it one day.” They went bright red and the cashier smiled and congratulated me at the desk 😂
I was in London once with family and we were at westfield london. I speak norwegian btw. And i heard someone say in norwegian "Bloody hell there are more people here then there is in Norway"
They weren’t wrong though! XD
The fact that swedish and Norwegian understand each other is funny
Lova Fredby Why? 😂
Danish, Swedish And Norwegian are all similar. (One of the forms, the one that is most used, of written Norwegian is based on danish...)
JC I understand Norwegian but not danish that’s sad
Eyy en norsk kpop fan ((:
i just noticed that japanese always compliment.
Stress alright I’m moving!
Wait I’m stuck between Korea and Japan 😂😂😂
NooooooOooOooooOo
I’m Polish and live in Germany, so yeah including English I know three languages, which is pretty normal in my family. So this year in Croatia I and a cousin of mine were talking in German near a pool and there were 4 Polish guys who clearly hadn’t a clue we understood them, even though we laughed at some of their jokes. Let me tell you, it’s an upsetting sight, when people want to prank you (in our case asking us out to dance and throw us in the pool*), plan everything out, only for you to say: “Nope, not today.” in their language. Two of them straight up ran way, while one of them was red as a tomato and the other looked everywhere but at us.
*Music was playing in the background and one of them knew some basic things in German like: "Willst du mit mir tanzen?” (Do you want to dance with me?)
My mom and dad were born in the 1960s and this story was in like 1990 so not many people were a fan of same sex marriage. They were in Germany and my dad was like “not to be rude, BUT THOSE GIRLS ARE KISSING.” my dad went to the bathroom and the girls spoke to my my mom and were like “hahaha your husband is so funny we can speak English and understand it” and my mom started laughing with them. My dad comes out and goes PALE and is like “I am an a**”. Now, they are best friends.
*gets an ad about learning a language right before the video*
A girl once told me while I was in elementary school, "wait, you're Chinese, you can't be born here in Canada." I legit slapped myself.
I had this is the UK too. It's sad that it's not even the kids fault I think it's just sad they were never taught 😔
What sense-
Where that pfp from I'm curious
@@crazyformyseIf It is Doyoung from NCT. The clip can be found here from this video: th-cam.com/video/SIUNA6rFXPw/w-d-xo.html
I love a good karma story
I'm french and spent several months working in Sydney, Australia this ,year. I'm pretty short (4'10). One night I was walking home from work, it was a late saturday night in one of the busiest suburbs of Sydney. I was wearing my waitress uniform and I heard two guys walking behind me speaking french very casually (they were probably convinced I was australian or a non french speaker) and trying to guess my age. The conversation went like this:
Guy 1: "How old do you reckon that chick is?" *laughing*
Guy 2: idk man, maybe 16?"
Guy 1: "are you kidding? She looks like she's 12!"
I then proceeded to turn around with my best smile and tell them (in French) : "Hey nice to meet you! I'm 20 by the way :)"
They looked at each other and didn't say a word as I walked off.
These are the kind of things that make me very uneasy when I'm talking to two people that know the same language I dont know and they start talking in that laguage
katie vigil ikr! My friends are from Romania so every time they speak in Romanian I get frustrated because I can’t understand them
@@Zanoscar "easy"
@@Zanoscar bruh are you implying learning a language is easy? xD
I am fluent in French and can understand Spanish. When I was in Mexico, which has a lot of French people, I heard two waiters that had a conversation in French and Spanish just Incase I knew one of the languages. They said I looked like a douche and I said and why do you say that? They both walked away and we got another waiter.
Apologies for the length. I was with my Mom back when this had happened. Her and I were at Target and she was shopping for a new purse because the one she had at the time was quite literally falling apart.
Any who, my Mom is Puerto Rican but she looks like a white woman. Her parents, who were both born in Puerto Rico look way more Puerto Rican than their 5 kids, it’s pretty funny actually, but a lot of shit goes down as a result, shit like the coming story.
So, my Mom is suuuper picky about her purses. So what she adoes when she’s in the process of picking a potential new purse is, she takes SOME of her key items from her current purse, like her wallet and makeup bag etc., and she places them in the candidate purse to see if they’ll fit while leaving some extra room or not. She happened to be doing just that when an old Spanish couple was walking by us, heading towards the exit while watching what’s going on on our end.
I wave and smile at them, just being polite as Mom had always taught me and she does the same. They wave back and smile before the wife grabs her husband and pulls him along to move faster so they can go.
She starts saying to her husband in Spanish, “What a shame! This woman is here in broad daylight, clearly stealing that purse! And even worse is that she’s teaching her daughter this shameful behavior!! My God, let’s get out of here!!”
My Mom, having heard every word this woman assumed and spouted to her husband, put the purse down, turned to her and replied to her in Spanish, “Excuse me, I would never steal let alone teach my daughter that it’s ok to. If you’re so concerned with what I’m doing as a “moral-less” mother, why would you leave instead of reporting me to an employee or manager?” That woman’s face went as white as milk before turning red as an apple with embarrassment, it was such a sight!!!
Her husband started laughing and he said in heavily Spanish accented English, “This is wha’ ju get for always having someting to say about everyting ju see anyone do. This was bound to happen an’ it’s finally come to bite ju in the culo (ass) because ju don’t know when to chut up an’ mind ju business!!!” When he said bite, he raised his hand 🤚🏽 and then snapped it shut ✊🏽 when he said culo. Ngl, he made me laugh, cause he was clearly done with her triflin’ ass bullshit.
That woman couldn’t leave the store fast enough, she was so embarrassed. And to be fair, I guess it could look like stealing in someone else’s eyes, but we were literally right next to the checkout lines/customer service desk. I’m sure people have done that before but damn, my Mom would never.
Moral of the story? Watch what you say, kids, even in your native tongue. You never know when that someone knows exactly what you’re saying and you just might be the one who leaves embarrassed with your tail between your legs.
I wish I could speak all lauguages.
So I have two stories.
1.) Once, I was at a dinner, and I was sitting next to these two German guys. Guess what? I speak fluent German and ASL. These guys next to me were talking with each other in German about how ugly I was and how I must have been hurt on my face when I was young, because it was so screwed up. They had no clue I knew what they were saying. It continued on like this for the entire dinner, and when it was over, I was leaving and one of the guys said "You dropped your coat!" In heavily accented English. I picked it up and said, "Thank you, have a wonderful night." In perfect German. The guy and his friend's faces turned beet red, then ghostly pale. I just walked away confidently as they discussed in German how embarrassed they were, so I shouted back "Du solltest sein! Gute Nacht!" (you should be, goodnight). They were mortified.
2.) Another time, I was visiting my aunt who is blind and deaf. Because of this, she has to have caretakers with her at all times, and everyone in the family has to know how to speak ASL.
One of her caretakers was fairly new, and didn't know that everyone in the family spoke ASL. We were sitting outside, and she started talking about what she and her boyfriend did last night in sign language. I just sat there, sipping my tea and watching her describe in graphic detail to her friend, who did know I speak ASL, but had no clue I was watching. at one point, the girl said in sign language, "thank God for penis, who could live without it?" I just looked up and said in English, "lesbians." She looked over at me, shocked, and asked "what do you mean, lesbians?" I replied, "Lesbians can live without penis." The look on her face was priceless. For the rest of my trip, she was acting awkward around me, and wouldn't make eye contact or have a conversation. It was worth it, though.
Lorelei Sullivan
This is why I wanna learn sign language 😂
You can also talk to people since a lot of people don’t know it.
I'm Filipino and I live in Quebec, Canada. It's a place that speaks french. One day, me and my mom were walking home and we were talking in our language. A bunch of Quebecois walked past us and I heard one of them say "You're in a french city. You should speak french" in French. Now I studied french for 2 years just so I can go to regular class. I looked at them and said "Oh yes I know how to speak french and I know 4 languages. So, you? Are you even bilingual?" in french. My mom just looked at me confused I explained it to her later on. I know that was mean but they got on my nerves.
Whoa.. Amazing
4 ang alam mo, astig niyo!
I’m portuguese and I speak 4 languages including french. When I moved to France, first day of school, my history teacher asked me questions in english like how fluent I was, if I felt more comfortable speaking in english or in french and if I needed help understanding something to not hesitate to ask for help, and I think my classmates assumed I didn’t spoke french. So after a few days of not hearing me speak french (because I was shy) they started to talk about me, making jokes, trying to guess why I moved... and I let them, I didn’t really cared... until they started catcalling me in the middle of classes, one of them told his friends what he was going to do to me and how I was probably really wild in bed and they just laugh... so I turned around and called his name and by now everyone was looking at me (probably because I hadn’t spoke to anyone in class before) and I told him in perfect french “why would I or anyone in this room what to do anything with you?” and he just turned pale while everybody laughed... my history teacher laughed and told them that joke was on everybody how assumed I didn’t spoke french
I’ve told this story on a similar compilation before, but I’ll say it again here. I’m white Australian, in line to order Mexican food from a place that seems to hire exclusively Spanish-speaking staff (one of the many things that I love about the place as I love listening to Spanish). Anyway, I had just finished ordering my food, when the girl who was serving me and another girl from the kitchen were obviously looking at me and talking to each other in Spanish. The one in the kitchen looked me up and down and said something to the other girl, who then looked me up and down and agreed. I don’t speak Spanish, but I’ve heard enough of it spoken in American TV shows to know that whatever they said is DEFINITELY an insult along the lines of “slut” and “whore”. So I swore at them in French 😂😂
Also, a more wholesome one. I worked in retail, and every so often I would come across customers who speak French. I never let on that I studied French, out of fear that they would then try and communicate with me (I can understand French, but when speaking the grammar becomes jumbled in my mind and I often end up sounding stupid). Anyways, I was ringing up the items for a couple from the French-speaking part of Belgium, and every so often they would talk amongst themselves in French while still talking to me in English (they were still very polite in French and weren’t making rude comments). Suddenly, the woman yells something like « oh mon dieu mon chéri j’ai oublié quelque chose ! J’ai oublié le chocolat ! » I didn’t know how to tell her in French that she could run and get it, and she was fluent in English, so I just kept a blank expression and said “if you’ve forgotten something, you can go and get it if you want?” Perhaps she had an inkling that I understood her, I’ll never know. All I know is that she was so happy that she could go and get the chocolate 🙂🙂
I’m now wondering what the massive Brazilian community has been saying about myself and my old coworkers 😂😂
You should have asked: Le chocolat pour moi? Merci madame.
So im half Swiss and Thai. I look More European than Asian ( still looked Asian) but with tan skin because it’s common for Thai people to be tan. I speak fluent English because I go to an international school and I’m able to speak german and Thai because of my parents. In July I went to seven eleven to get a slurpee and it was on a Wednesday, I was waiting in line to pay for my slurpee when the lady next to me, paying at another counter, turned and eyed me. I didn’t think much because Thai people look at mixed people as foreigners, bUT then all of a sudden she said "Jesus Christ kids these days are skipping school thinking it’s cool. Their parents are not teaching them properly“ in Thai. You see Thai schools are in session when summer is occurring in America and such places ( their summer holidays are at the end of March till the start of May). So, I decided to respond with “You know, international schools exists right? So maybe you should shut your mouth“ And deadass her mouth hung open when I said that. The girl who was behind the counter I was using deadass giggled-
I will never forget this moment-
I'm going to Greek in few months as a exchange student for few weeks. I've been learning Greek for a year soon and I'm totally not telling anyone including my host family. Can't wait.
Saana I think thats the wrong way to start the relationship with your host family. Most host families go into hosting because they really want the students to have a successful experience.
Γειά! Είμαι περίεργη να δω πόσο καλά ξέρεις ελληνικά! Χαχα ελπίζω να δεις το μήνυμα σύντομα 😂
One time, I was on vacation with my family in Tunisia. We have booked a 2 day long Sahara tour in a local travel office. Being a Hungarian, I was quite surprised when another Hungarian family joined the tour as well (they were barely speaking any other language than Hungarian). The little boy there was really scared of the local Arabs and was constantly crying about his insecurity for his father. During the second day, the father had enough and said " shut up or these Arabic nomads are going make a stew of you". The boy basically shat his pants and grabbed onto his teddy bear. Our local guide - Hassan - suddenly busted out laughing. As it turned out he studied economics in a Hungarian university and more or less understood everything we were talking about during the trip. He claimed that this was the most racially funny thing he's ever heard.
“Connardes”😂😂😂 that’s a cool broken French
I'm German and English is my second language.
When I was 14 I went on an exchange to Edinburgh. After a few months in my new class we got two new students, two girls. One korean and one chinese. My friend introduced them to me, my friend said "This is Laura she is an exchange student from Germany.". They politely introduced themselves. In break they set next to me on a bench and started to talk about me in korean, they said some mean things like "she is so ugly" or "why does Amber like her she is so annoying". By the time we had to go back inside, I stood up and said to them (in korean) "Its not nice to say such things about a person you never really talked to and don't know them." Their faces went pale and they went inside very quickly and apologized in the next break.
Sorry for my bad grammar 😅
A wholesome one:
My grandfather and his brother speak French, but not English. I speak English, but not French. We also share another language, but that's beside the point. So, we were traveling in the Netherlands and wanted to order some food. As none of us know dutch, I proceeded to translate our order to English for the guy at the counter, and he didn't really understand English very well. My grandpa and his brother start talking to each other in french about something, and it turns out that the dude at the counter also speaks French. After that discovery, we had a way easier time placing our order.
How about “Bisexuals of reddit, whats your ‘i didn’t know you were attracted to my gender’ story”
@@_blank-_ what's wrong with doing Pansexuals?
Pansexuals and bisexuals are the same smh.
@@TotallyNotSnowman No they aren't, dumbass. -.-
@Chloe Ha I thought there're only 2 genders (girls and boys)?
@Chloe Ha Ok, if so then I'm sorry for my mistakes. Thanks for the facts!
Honestly the people in these stories have so much patients and temper control. Like someone be talking crap about them and they just they there politely and in the end they casually reveal that they understood everything people said and just leave. If i was in that situation, I would just storm up to the rude people and roast them with every roast i could possibly think of.
There was this one time me and my friend went into a store. For background, we both look Asian but aren't. I'm a local and she's a tourist. Which means a speak the local language. We enter this shop and say hello in English and we're just browsing. The sales assistant asks if they can help and we simply say we're still looking. They start speaking in the local language between them and I hear everything they're saying. So, so rude. I just told my friend to leave and go to another shop. I didn't even bother to say that I could perfectly understand what they were saying. I simply think that it's so sad and I feel pity for these such small minded people. People who think others won't understand what they're saying. What pissed me off more was that I used to buy at this shop but now I cant, I'm boycotting them for their rudeness towards potential customers.
Intimissimi, your sales staff totally suck
I’m Dutch and one time me and my family went to Dubai on vacation. We went to the big water park one day when we were there and for some reason I can’t remember my brother went on a slide without me. He stood directly behind 3 Dutch kids with one guy the same age as my brother. They assumed he was from Dubai because he spoke crappy English to some other tourist that was in line earlier (my brother was like 10 at the time). They started making jokes about him. When it was their turn to go on the slide it turned out that you’ve got to have 4 people to go on the raft that you had to go in to to go on the slide. They asked my brother since he was alone “do you want to go with us?” To which he replied in Dutch “Yeah that’s fine, bc I’m alone”. They all laughed about it and they apologized to my brother and they kept in touch till this day. My brother is almost 19 now.
Came across a bunch of guys in Italy, they were like 'look at that yummy girl' I went all the way to them and start introduce myself in Italian
Yes. I speak English, Italian and Vietnamese. Try me 🙂
When i was in Rome, i visited a small souvenir shop because it had some football shirts. The only person working in that shop was a vietnamese girl and she could speak at least 5 languages fluently. She would switch from one language to another effortlessly, answering random customers' questions. I was totally impressed by that girl. Think she speaks more that 5 languages. And she was really attractive to boot.
Like why you can speak Italian?im really curious since I'm Italian and not a lot of people can speak it,or learn it
Annalaura Greco I’m english and would love to speak Italian, I’m trying to learn it but haven’t got very far yet
@@kayw9235 how are you learning it?i can help you since italian is my first language!
Annalaura Greco I’ve just been watching videos as i don’t know anyone who speaks the language. That would be great if you could help! Although I am definitely a beginner and don’t know much
It’s happened to me before, I’m English and I speak Korean, french and mandarin. I was in a nail shop in England and this really good looking guy kept looking at me when he was doing my cousins nails (I was waiting for her). Him and his work mate kept staring at me and kept speaking in mandarin saying,” I was hot and that they wouldn’t mind tapping that.” I said,” thanks but no thanks.” With a smile and omg they went really red in the face 🤣. Talk about fuck boys 🤣
yo what is thanks but no thanks in Chinese? just asking hehe
How did you learn three languages
Ameena Shafiq Via education and if your family happens to speak it to you
My cousin is insanely tall even for a white person. He lives in japan, and everyone he meets is so shocked when this giraffe walks towards them and starts conversing in fluent Japanese.
One time when I was in Fiji with a school group, one of my friends wanted to go and get another donut (which were really delicious) and our guide told him what to say in Fijian (even though it was unnecessary as most Fijians can speak very good English but its considered nice when you can speak their language). When he went up to one of the ladies who had been handing out the donuts, he asked in Fijian but his pronunciation was slightly off and instead for donuts, he asked for testicles. After that, it became a joke for us to start calling donuts "testicles".
Bilingual?
*laughs in trilingual*
Jungkooooooook
@Celeste Carter im trilingual and i speak english since 3 yo, portuguese and spanish (both mother tongues not portonhol😂), also trying to learn french
@Celeste Carter what languages do you speak?
Same I'm korean, speak german and English
Laughs in 4 languages
The way the robot voice pronounced quinceanera made me laugh so hard.
I am Mexican and I can speak English, Spanish and Portugues fluently
...watch out
Me: ( Portuguese girl living in german) I'm in one store buing groceries when I heard 2 men speaking in Portuguese that I had a great ass and they just wanted to slap it, they thought I was german and didnt understand a word they said.
I just look back and say in Portuguese " next time be sure no one understands you pigs " they felt so bad that they offered to pay my groceries.
One time my Aunt and her daughter were going to visit the U.S. for some reason. KEEP IN MIND they are from Mexico and they speak broken English. When they arrived at the border, the police officer asked my Aunt “Do you speak English?”. My Aunt simply said “ Yes my Darling” in a sweet but broken English . The officer smiled and let her through, but when her daughter tried to follow her the officer told her to wait. Although it’s pretty funny how my Aunt was able to pass through, it shows that kindness never hurts when you’re traveling to new places.
9:40 The french prononciation by an english automatic voice is priceless. Cupcakelimao (OP of this story) if you see that comment, your french is indeed broken but keep up the good work ! The correct sentence is "Ces filles pensent que personne ne les comprend. Connasses.". "Croient" was rightly written but incorrect in this context, it means "believe" not "think".
I speak 5 languages actually.
English.
American.
ABC's.
United States of America-in.
Nevadian.
I speak Brazilian I'm so cool
I know a little bit of ASL. I'm teaching my preschool class how to do the pledge of allegiance in ASL!
@@barbaro267 ohhhhhh niceeee.
I know a lot more!
English
American
ABC’s
United Sates of American
North American
Californian
New Yorkan
Marylandian
Don't forget Emoji-an.
Im french canadian but lived in korea for 3 years and learned spanish in elementary so i speak all 4 of those languages and since I am in the Kpop comunity I tend to see alot of people pretending to know korean typing korean giberish saying it means hello ect...its quite funny also in discord alot of people who want a reason for bad grammar say oh sorry im french and when i speak french they dont answearXD i have only one example for spanish and thats when my spanish teacher once was talking to the student teacher and me being pretty much the only one to be fluent but they didnt quite know that since it was a new teacher anyways she told the student teacher "lets skip this lesson they dont understand anyways they are weak and they dont listen" I let out a laugh and other students were confused but im pretty sure the teacher realised lmao"
i live in germany and speak perfect german but i was born in peru and speak spanish as well
once, one vacations in peru i was at the market with my family and i just bought something and talked a bit with my fathers wife in german suddenly this peruvian guy comes out of nowhere and asks me in a broken german if i just bought that and tells me he would show me how he could get better prices for me, turns around and bargains a price for the exact same item i just got myself... when he proudly turns around and tells me i would never get a better price the lady tells him he should "ask his german friend for advice on haggling" and i just smile and go away
9:52 "and nobody messes with my mamma" i really smiled hard at that, good boy.
I imagine regardless of if you can speak the native language of a place, being polite and trying not to waste someone's time would tend to get you pretty far.
Wholesome story... I was living in Hawaii at the time, going to university to learn Japanese. There are a lot of Japanese tourists in Hawaii. One day I'm running errands, passing through the Iolani Palace area of Honolulu, and while waiting for a light I notice a Japanese couple that looks very lost. The guy timidly approaches me and asks in very broken English where they are and gestures at the map they're holding. My spoken Japanese tended to suck, but luckily, we were studying directions so it was fresh in my mind, and I've been told my accent is great and my mannerisms are spot on. I give a slight bow, tell them I'm happy to help, point out where they are on the map, what direction they should go to get to the mall, and was able to suggest a bus to them if they didn't want to walk. They were stunned but so, so happy.
Another quick story; I went into a shop in Waikiki to grab a treat for my coworkers, paid for it, turned around, and found the shop stuffed wall to wall with Japanese tourists. I slipped through, murmuring "すみません！" ("excuse me!"), and they parted, but I heard a wave of shocked commentary over the fact it was a white girl speaking Japanese! Made me laugh all the way back to my shop.
I remember one time I was walking home and in front of me, there were two girls that were both in my class. Both of them started talking in Spanish and since we both stopped because of red light due to that I could decipher what they were saying. Turn out they were talking trash about me. So I turned to them and said, "Nice to know what you think of me." in Spanish and walked away. To say the least they avoided me the rest of the year.
The story I'm gonna tell is quite crazy.
I'm French, but I speak more often English because it's more simple.
This happened when I was like 9, so my level in English wasn't as good as know, but I was better than every others kids of my age.
I was on a trip in an Englishspeaking island, with my parents, and we were on the beach looking at the sunset. Y'know, I wasn't the type of kid to be super thin and small, I was very chubby and hella tall (I looked a 12yearold instead of a 9yearold), plus I was very ugly. Like, seriously. Doby is less ugly then me, to say.
So, there was this couple who was probably American but I don't know, with their kid. (I can also put that story in an entitled parent vid..). It's important to know that my parents don't speak a word of English at all.
This couple, with that plastic blond haired woman (the worst cliché I'm sorry but it's true) and that fat dude, was looking at me, idk why. Then, the woman turns to her husband and said something that I didn't hear. I was peacefully making a sand castle with others French kids, so I first didn't care about it. Then, I heard the couple laughing their ass off, so I turned around and saw them looking at me again. I looked at them back, and when the fat dude said "She's so ugly and fat, what a shame for her parents! French people are so stupid". It took a few seconds to understand that, but when I got it, I was really mad. Because first, I'm a boy (I'm trans since my youngest age), and second, don't they dare talking shit about me. I am that kind of kid with a very exploding personality, so I just gave them my darkest look, and said in a quite broken English: " Look at you! You are so fat, too. At least, me, I'm not a Barbie plastic bottle, and I'm not as thin as a stickman. You are stupid!" They looked at me with those enormous eyes, I was so angry. My mom saw my angry face, and she asked me why, I pointed at the couple while saying "C'est des méchants! Ils m'ont insulté! Ils ont dit que j'étais stupide." which means "They're bad! They insulted me! They said I'm stupid." and yknow, with that sobbing child voice.. My mom also looked at the couple badly, and let's just admit that my mom's bad look is one of the most scary things on Earth. They just shut up, and five minutes later, they were gone.
Fun fact; their door was just next to ours.
Btw how people could be so stupid...
I'm Vietnamese and I can't speak it. I can understand it though, so whenever someone trash talks me it's an awkward accented English.
My old teacher (Irish) told us a story one time. He was on holidays in Italy and was riding a cable car out to one of the islands on the coast. There were two Irish girls in the cable car who were gossiping and making remarks about people who were also in the car in fluent Irish. My teacher could understand everything they were saying about everybody but kept his mouth shut until everyone was getting off. He said to the girls - "slán, cailliní!" Which means "bye, girls!" In Irish. He said their faces were priceless once they realized he heard and understood everything.
I look Hispanic because my dad is. I lived in a Spanish-speaking apartment with my mom from age 8-10. Some boys, not suspecting I spoke English, said, "Dang, she hot. I want her to be my baby mama. Let's get her in the laundry room later." I went to the laundry room and said in perfect English, "Get the f*ck away from me." Their look of sheer terror was priceless
Once , a teammate in PUBG started saying that How bad and started insulting me in Malay and l insult Back in Malay , he had go AFK afterwards
Not just pubg..ML too but in my case Indonesians were the ones insulting. I just kill them off and insulted them back in Indonesian.
Yea Daenerys from g.o.t. definitely has the best story for this haha
I used to work in Starbucks
There was a girl who was obvious she was Mexican because she was struggling a lot ordering. So I said: can you repeat your order please but in Spanish (me puede repetir su orden). The girl was shocked and I kinda felt bad for her
There was a German exchange student in our school. We always talked in English and soon became friends..
One day we were sitting on the bus and talking, and there were 2 boys ahead of us,
one of them wispered
'Oh look, they are not Hungarian, haha' - and they laughed
Then I said - "I am tough."
They were so suprised 😂😂
It was hilarious
They stayed silent for the rest of the time 😂
Every year our senior class goes on a trip to London, and we went this year. During the briefing of everything we were going to do we were warned not to talk shit about people, and then our favourite teacher told us that when they were on the metro there, there was a kinda punk guy and he, himself, and the students were saying stuff about him. Then suddenly the guy stood up and said in Dutch ‘Nice kids you have there.’ And got off the metro. Other teachers make sure to remind him every year.
I can speak a lot of languages:
English
Slang
Baby
Typo English (texts)
Spanish
English
What about Gibberish and Pig Latin?
I speak Spanish and English but I was on the train and this girl overheard me talking Spanish as she entered the train and for some reason immediately assumes I only speak Spanish. Then pushed me, sat down, and started talking trash about me in English. When she was done I looked at her and said “ I am bilingual I know what your saying” her face was priceless🤣
Is it just me or did that robot pronounce "hemorrhoids" in a French accent 🤔
much respect for bilingual and trilingual people because i am australian greek ( only half greek) and it has taken ages for me to get where i am in the greek language and i am not fluent yet so lots of respect for you guys.
Thanks:) Though as a trilingual I can say that you get confused A LOT lmao
I speak 4 languages :) your parent never spoke to you in Greek? That's a shame if they did, you would be fluent
I speak 6 languages and dude this never happened to me smh
Noelle p What languages do you speak? :)
@@fayeb7667 I can speak English, hindi, Marathi, sanskrit, Konkani, french and a bit of Spanish
@@nirmalpai may I asked how you learned them?
@@Gabriela-x2t um well since I live in India there are like more than 200 languages spoken. So well hindi is our national language. Where I live, Marathi and Konkani are local languages. So I learnt them all along with English in school. In Indian school system, during grade eight you have to choose to learn one of selected language for three years to increase your GPA. So I selected sanskrit and my neighbour took french so we learnt them together. And since there are a lot of Spanish songs emerging in today's English pop music I kinda wanted to learn it too. You may ask if I get confused, well at times, hell yeah.
@@nirmalpai wow thats so interesting and cool
This is what I love. Finding stories I can relate to.
Mine:
I’ve gotten a few ‘Where are you from’s. And I so tell them I’m Ecuadorian-Greek. I know fluent English, Greek and Spanish. I was visiting some of my cousins in Argentina at the time, we had met up at a restaurant. The table next to us was some guys were talking about our looks and how cute we were, in Greek. I translated for my cousins, and they looked over and said ‘hey they’re pretty cute too.’ I tapped one of the guys and said, in Greek, ‘my cousins think you guys are cute, too.’ He turned red, and switched to English, says, ‘Can you understand me now?’ He’s got this smile on his face, like the ‘as if she’s gonna know three languages’ I smile and switch to English, too. ‘Yeah.’ I go, and we ended up merging tables, me as a translator. My cousin that spoke English ended up dating the guy I tapped. You never know. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go shopping for their wedding. Nah jk they broke up last year because he cheated 🙄. She’s over him now and I’m happy. I didn’t really like that βλάκα.
Once I was at the beach and I seen a family fluent in Spanish with a young teen cuddling with their dog, I commented about how cute it was then later realized they spoke English too oops, at least it wasn't anything bad
I had a similar experience with the foreigner and the 6-year old Japanese kid.
In my case, it was a Japanese toddler at a playground. I was waiting at the park for my university circle to meet up for a hanami (cherry blossom viewing), when I heard this little girl, couldn’t have been older than 4, yell to her mom that there was a foreigner on the playground. Bemused, I turned to her, and in near-fluent Japanese told her that she was right, I am most certainly a foreigner (Scandinavian).
The poor girl started bawling her eyes out and ran to her mother while screaming that the foreigner spoke Japanese... I felt so guilty for making the little girl cry, while the mom was apologizing in my general direction, white as a sheet.
There were no winners that day.
I remember when someone at school asked me for directions (in Filipino language) and I replied with “ha?” since I didn’t actually hear her clearly but then I think she assumed that I’m not a Filipino due to my features and that I didn’t understand what she have said so she translates it in English; in which I replied in Tagalog.
Our conversation goes by:
Her: Miss, alam niyo ba kung saan ito?
Me: ha?/huh?
Her: Do you know where is this?
Me: Ah, oo. Diretso ka diyan tapos liko ka sa may kaliwa.
Us: 😐
This reminds me of a story one of my friends told me. So she moved to Germany and she had to keep attending school there and so one time when she got in a fight with one of her teachers she cursed at him in her native language and the teacher just looked up at her and ask "what did you just say?" in her native language in the tipical "care to repeat that" voice.
Trust Me speaking many languages is soooo helpful I speak 7 languages ( french, Spanish, Turkish,Arabic, English,Korean, Chinese) and I'm still learning new ones and trust me when I say that it helped me a lot 😂
May I ask how you learned them??
@@Gabriela-x2t I learned most of them in school but 3 of them by myself it's really easy if you love the language and you want to learn it and you have a goal😄
Even if it's gonna take time I took almost 5 years or more learning 5 languages only so be patient 😂
@@rofiaaifor1148 wow, what are some things that really helped learn a language?
@@Gabriela-x2t well I learned English by movies and Turkish also with the help of internet and books I think that might help you and try to make friends from other countries that speak the language you want to learn it will help you a lot😄 if you need help I will it's okay
This is exactly why I want to learn multiple languages so I can get that good bit of memories.
Thanks god that I never insult people with my or other languages.
I'm french native speaker and went in Berlin a couple years ago. I once went to a night club and came back at about 4 AM by subway, having bought a sandwich and eating it while waiting for the subway to go. These three young french girls sat just in front of me (belive me or not, they wore blue, white and red T-shirts, and in that order), and start talking about how i seem to enjoy my sandwich. The more they (drunk-)talked, saying things like "Oh, the sandwich must be soooo delicious" (one could tell they had the "Midnight hunger"), the more I was amused, and the more they interpreted that as me loving my sandwich. This got on until i finished it and told them in french that they could still buy one if they hurried up. The look on their faces was epic ^^.
Lol the first one all she read were the prices that’s not hard to do
I was at the Pet Shop a few months earlier, i speak fluent Cat language btw, as i was looking for a Cat to adopt, one of the cats said in fluent Cat language “look at this human, very malnourish looking, i bet his pet eats pizza while he eats Whiskas” i turned around and respond “meow moeew meoww” which means “i speak Cat language you dumbass” the cat’s face turns red and he quickly apologized. Still makes me smile every time i remember it 😆