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You guys are the best
Just say Ciao when meeting or saying goodby to an Italian and you'll fit right in.
Don't ruin it by ordering pineapple pizza
There's something way worse than pineapple on pizza...
It's mayo on pizza.
yeah the holocaust was pretty bad
Nobody wants holocaust pizza
Makes me gassy
I am not cleaning the ovens again!
Ty.
Prego.
Gracias
Quando gli italiani si incontrano fuori la propria patria
As an American who lived in Turkey for a year, they LOVED when I would speak my extremely limited Turkish. Such a friendly place.
Would you say its a ......delightful place?
Stop it Edward.
Edit. Edmund.
I feel the percentage of people who get this is tragically small.
Haha once I was in Barcelona and decided to use Catalan words instead of Spanish words at the grocery checkout and I damn near made the cashier's day I tell you what
Tried using the washroom at a Las Ramblas bar as they were closing, was denied when I asked in Spanish. Tried again asking in Catalan, and was promptly let in.
Same! I'm Portuguese, and it's always amazing when someone speaks it
Except for when I was in Barcelona recently and was talking to a bartender in Spanish and she said to me in Catalan “Why are you speaking to me in Castilian?” to which I replied “Uhhh, because I’m from the US and don’t speak Catalan”.
She was a bit embarrassed and apologized, but I guess I’ll take it as a compliment that she thought I was a local?
Idk, I’ve been to Spain and I tried ordering pineapple juice and mispronounced piña, the waitress laughed in my face and corrected me, I was 12 and so confused :(
Pretty sure you said "dick" (penis = pene) in spanish and that's why she laughed.
I've been to Italy twice now, saw a good portion of the country, and love it, like LOVE IT. The people as a whole are amazing, and welcoming, and, just amazingly well dressed for the most part (it really stood out to me how well most people dress). I'm horrible at learning new languages, i can barely speak English properly, and I'm American, but everyone I've encountered was great even when i butchered what little i could say. 10/10 to go visit.
For those in the pink country, the word you’re looking for is “said” or “spoke”, not “told”.
Yes, unfortunately english is not our first language xD
For those in the pink country, the word you’re looking for is “said” or “spoke”, not “told”.
-Green country
Real.
Wow you know English…..ok
(I am English if you couldn’t already tell)
Typical middle America responce: big booming voice Ha Ha! You speak better English than I do!
(Yes I'm American, yes I've said this 100 times)
Ola!
gracias / obrigado / grazie / hvala
Literally asked a guy in my broken Italian for help and he bought me lunch.
Lmao that's awesome
I'm picturing it like "sorry, where is the Colosseum?" "Here have my panino"
You can't see Japan on here but they really appreciate it when you speak in their language. That said do make at least a little bit of an effort to say it in a proper accent. It's not even hard and yet so many people I know didn't even try
I remember my French teacher was like "almost everyone in France can speak English they probably just won't want to talk to you" lol
Speaking of French speakers, I once heard a Canadian YouTuber say this about Quebecois too.
“Those fuckers can speak English, they just won’t.”
Direct quote lol.
Am quebecois. Can confirm.
A significant portion of the population HATE english. There have been votes to separate the province into a new country, the last vote being 49.5% for separation. The #1 reason for separation : eliminating the english language. I frequently participate in some Quebec subreddits and the hatred of english is one of the main themes.
But being at least "decent" in english is required to obtain a high school diploma. It has been this way for decades.
i’m really curious why? what is it about having both languages that they dislike so much ?
French linguistic purity. France used to be a major global super-power. The decline of the French Empire also lead to the decline of the French language. Knowing French used to be more important than knowing English. Now hardly anyone knows French, relatively speaking, and basically the entire world knows at least some English.
France is fiercely protective of it now, considering it an important and endangered part of their national identity. Its mandatory use in certain areas is codified into law.
Some native French speakers view speaking different languages out of anything other than necessity to be an attack on French heritage.
Which is ironically most likely a major contributing factor to its decline. It’s kinda hard to learn a language, or be motivated to continue learning it, if the people that speak it are assholes about it.
Ultimately though, it all boils down into yet another way to split groups into Us Vs Them categories.
Its extra strange because they speak french so poorly that the actual french will speak to them in english lol.
Quebec French is not worse of better, the accent is just from an older version of French that goes back to the time it was colonized; it evolved differently. As for colloquialisms, they exist both in France and Quebec
Too be fair nobody likes quebec for this reason. They have a “better than thou” attitude because they speak broken french
Had to copy this over from another reply I made:
My band played a show in Quebec back in 2008 and we stopped by some shops to get coffee and food. They spoke French and looked at us like heathens, refused to engage in English until our drummer looked at the barista and quoted Pulp Fiction's line "ENGLISH, MOTHER FUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?" and all of the sudden the barista spoke English and was more friendly.
Edit for clarity: we tried our best to engage in basic French phrases we had in one of those tourist languages books and asked politely prior to our drummer yelling if the dude spoke English. He just sat there and stared at us until he got yelled at finally. We tried to be nice initially, but it was exactly as we were warned when we drove up for the show by the local bands were playing with: they will not like you for being Americans, they will not like that you don't speak French, and they will give you a hard time.
Moved to Quebec a year ago, and I can confirm this is 100% false. They've been nothing but welcoming and very patient with my attempts at French before switching to English.
plainly false. They won't want to talk to you because they cant
And because they're French.
Edit: Spelling
Their French what?
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I've seen people not being served water because they weren't pronouncing l'eau correctly enough
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Yes it's paris, they could make fun of me because I have an accent from Southern france
I had to teach my brother to not say “bonjour” when entering shops when coming to Paris, it’s considered weird, I stopped living in paris now tho.
May I ask what is the appropriate alternative phrase?
Fiche-moi la paix, is the perfect reply to bonjour ;)
What does that mean?
Rudely: leave me alone
This guy Frenches
This implies the existence of a nice way of saying "leave me alone" in French, which I highly doubt exists.
Just say “tagueule connard” when the guy says “bonjour” and you should be good👌
idk french, but i know that connard is a self explanatory word, yeah, sounds about right
The first word means "shut up"
"ta gueule connard" = "shut up you asshole" Connard is an insult, I don't think there is an exact translation for it but that's the spirit. Btw, don't say it when someone tell you "bonjour" you'll just have problems. In Paris very few people will say it to you, so you might have no problem. And if you want to be polite but don't want to be bothered for your prononciation, just say "hello" everyone will understand
Wait, really ? I live next to Paris and when I go into a shop it's always those working here who first say "bonjour" to me. I'm not saying most parisians aren't rude because they are-everyone is just stressing each other out at this point-, but I never had the feeling that being polite when entering a shop was considered weird so I'm surprised.
You say “bonjour” when it’s your turn, but not straight when you enter the shop, especially if it’s to say it out loud like my brother
I say "Bonjour! C'est moi!" when I enter shops because I want everyone to know that they are being graced by my presence.
People being douches to others trying to learn another language is so annoying ngl.
When it comes to Europe, it’s almost entirely just the French
That's how the hundred years war started
"This is an apple."
"Non, c'est la pomme."
generational belligerence begins
Lol you made me think of the "German vs every other language" videos
Ambulance
Ambulance
Ambulancia
Ambulanze
KRANKENWAGEN
I got yelled at by some random woman at a convenience store somewhere between Paris and Luxembourg. She asked me a question, I responded with "I don't speak French" and she just lost it.
Edit: just to clarify, she wasn't working there. Just a random customer in the store approached me
3 years of french immersion in… canada. .. ottawa. spoke french in paris and was told to shut up.
as someone who travelled most of that map, it’s all true… love the pink countries … southern france is different though. they’re pink country
There is a tiny line (and entire channel) between merci! and mercy!..
To be fair, Paris is particularly horrible when it comes to this kind of thing.
Generally, I've seen people being pretty nice about people trying to speak French in northern and southern France.
Just last month, a guy couldn’t order ice cream because the ice vendor didn’t ‘understand’ vanilla. It’s Vanille in french ……. Pronounced vanee.
And it wasn’t just some old dude, it was a women in her twenties.
At least the guy got help from the crowd around, followed by a lot of head shaking and “Mon dieu” (in disbelief over the women)
Can't believe it, and it's not like vanilla is some weird ice cream flavor that you would not think about if it was not pronounced perfectly.
On the contrary, I once heard an Italian man ask for "cokes" ice cream and the ice cream vendor guessed correctly and gave him cookie flavored ice cream. A very funny but sweet scene
I take your point but just yesterday in my own city (English speaking) it took me 30 minutes to order a chocolate cake with chocolate icing from a 20 something woman, not because she didn't understand the language but just because she either really did not want to understand me, or she really is that bad at her job. There were other people shaking their head at that shop too. Some people are just morons, even in their own language.
The blank stare when they absolutely understood you but pretend they didn't is the most true cultural stereotype of all time
A blank stare isn’t so bad compared to what I'm used to. English is my first language, but I speak French pretty well (DELF C1/C2 level). I work in French, and I got through my entire university career, including my PhD, speaking only French. I just have a slight accent. The most infuriating thing I've encountered is when some people (mostly older people) will look at me blankly for a second and then turn to my fiancé (who is French) and say something like "huh? What did she say?" And yet when it's convenient for them, these same people have no problem understanding me. It doesn't happen often, but it happens. Outside of Paris, the French are generally pretty nice and helpful. Many Parisians are very nice too but it can depend on the circumstances. However, the one place where I've had consistently bad experiences, no matter what city I'm in, is in government administration. Don't get me started on the administration.
Bro, I live in Luxembourg. These guys come over steal our jobs and pretend to not understand as cashier or whatever. Try growing up in a country that is making foreigners out of locals.
This is just to highlight how the typical french guy is an asshole in general. Funny part is that the french people that clearly did not have french ancestry are pretty cool. Just not the original asshats.
It’s funny because I was in Geneva recently, and haven’t had a single French lesson in my entire life, I tried my best and the French Speaking Swiss were unanimously helpful and understanding and praised me for trying!!
The Swiss French are the absolute best kinds of French. Every Swiss French person I've ever met when I lived over there was absolutely lovely. This extends a bit into France, up to Lyons.
As a Quebeccer who speaks french fluently, even we are denigrated by the french in France. For instance I asked for butter (beurre) and spent a very uncomfortable 5 minutes of back n forth with the waiter who mockingly kept pushing that he could not understand what i wanted.
Some french in france are just twats - but its ok, their version of french sucks and is riddled with anglicisms. Québec French much superior
Met a Quebeccer once who told me what it's like to speak French with French people. "They talk like they have a pole up their ass."
Québécois IS legitimately difficult to understand for french natives. It's just such a different dialect.
And it's not a jab, it's true for many English dialects as well.
I think it’s mostly a Parisian thing still, the rest of France has grown to really dig the Quebec accent over the past few decades.
That's pretty l'ow if you ask me
Makes me want to learn just enough French to use it poorly on purpose in southern drawl just to make the frogs seethe
Yup.
Was in France and asked for "water", "agua", and "acqua" because I couldn't remember the word in French.
The waitress pretended not to have any clue what I wanted and brought back a beer.
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Someone (from Bordeaux) once told me that the reason the English hate the French is because most of the time we only ever go to Paris.
She said that everyone else is lovely (which she was) and that it’s just that Parisians are arseholes.
I’ve only been twice, and only one of those times included cities aside from Paris, but this is true in my experience. People in the smaller cities weren’t overly grateful that you knew some of their language, but they appreciated it and weren’t assholes like many Parisians are about it.
Paris is drowning under tourists, so someone working tourism/restaurants literally doesn't have the time to communicate with someone trying their french.
Speaking a very broken Italian in Venice would give you the same result.
Paris isn't unique in that regard however and there are plenty of other cities that get swarmed by tourists, that nevertheless don't have the reputation for the locals being surly or overly precious about their language gets pronounced.
Tokyo gets swarmed by tourists too, as an example, but you'll never get a hostile or passive aggressive reception from attempting to speak Japanese.
I've never been to Paris so I won't comment on how true or not that reputation is, just saying that if it is true, 'they get a lot of tourists" isn't an excuse.
It's true. I spent several weeks travelling through France and almost everyone was lovely. The only French I ever bothered to lean was "Je ne parle pas francaisje" - I don't speak French. Most people just laughed when I said it. It's, mostly, only the Parisians that are assholes.
Being Québécois we're perceived as these naive hillbilly cousins. The reaction (when we speak our own language) is either a joyfull patronizing "oh you people with your charming folksy accent" where you know they actually mean "wtf you sound like an old pirate from the 17th century" or the usual over-correction on words or syntax they don't use anymore in France. A LOT more of the latter in Paris.
its like New Yorkers they love the fact their city is internationally recognized and a tourist destination but hate tourists and how annoying all the clueless people are. (i get it but they have made themselves equally annoying)
if your french is decent and you dont act a fool, you can skate by and have a perfectly nice time.
I had 2 frenchmen visiting the US tell me that the only thing wrong with Paris were the people.
French people are consistently disgusted with me for using English. Also for attempting French. Also, when they see my face.
The problem with France is that they could afford to be that haughty when everyone wanted to learn their language since it was the international lingua franca. Now, the global lingua franca is English, and even global elites can succeed without bothering to learn a single word of French.
EDIT: Confusing Comma usage
I worked for a company owned by French interests & a couple times a year our French overlords would come visit to make sure everything was okay. I tried learning some French, practiced it, thought I was okay at it. I tried to say a formal greeting & one of them asked me not to speak it ever again because my pronunciation was “offensive”.
I get confused, because I (American) went to Paris a few years back and everyone was exceedingly nice. I speak intermediate but imperfect French and everyone understood me fine and treated us very well.
Maybe it was the timing - I went right after everything reopened from the pandemic, and it was very devoid of tourists compared to normal. Every place we ate seemed positively thrilled to have a tourist in house, they must’ve needed the money.
It’s so fucking true tho. Like my mom was in France on a business trip and they refused to give her butter because she wasn’t prononciating it correctly to them. The thing is WERE FROM QUEBEC French is literally our first language.
My mom, also from Quebec, had trouble getting the waiters to give her "thé glacé", and after describing what she wanted at length (cold, sweet tea), the waiter told her "Oh, vous voulez du iced tea!" and made her feel like she was the one butchering the French language.
There were a couple of other similar instances where she used actual french words, only to be "corrected" with the proper English-pronounced-with-a-French-accent words and an exasperated glare.
I know a Québécois who would refuse to speak to anyone in English in Quebec. She was a fluent English speaker, but it was a matter of principle. Then she went to Paris and everyone switched to English when she spoke to them in French and it was fucking hilarious.
Nobody seems to have explained this yet, but why are the French so seemingly pedantic and uptight about their language?
I’ve been studying Japanese for two years, already been to Japan twice. They turn giddy as hell if you so much as attempt a sentence.
I literally can’t fathom why a culture would be a dick about something that shows nothing but effort and consideration.
Learning any language is a lifetime dedication.
French are just like that, lol. It's not limited to language. They travel all over the world constantly complaining about the limited selection of French wines hahaha.
Germany? Partially. I never met a German (especially East German) who would not appreciate when I spoke German with him but they know English pretty well and would not press you too hard to speak in their mother language, unlike French. French are utter pricks, especially if they know you are British. And I have to defend my Polish heritage, Poles are only pricks when on holiday. At home, they are a nice people.
With Germans it depends a lot on how much time you are wasting trying to speak German. If you are a friend already and trying to learn it's obviously not a waste of time. But randomly on the street and if it's very obvious that it would just cut short the dialoge into 2 or 3 sentences than almost everyone (that can speak it) would try to keep it in English.
German efficiency.
"Stop, stop. My English is better than your german"
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As a german, that‘s still one of the funniest English-speaking german jokes I‘ve heard/seen.
When people in Berlin see that I’m struggling with my broken German, they will keep talking to me in German, even though sometimes I can notice a weird ick with their face when my speach becomes too broken. So far so good, really
I can see that for Berlin.
Every place is slightly different and in Berlin there are probably the most cultures clashing together in Germany.
In my experience, Germans would always start a conversation with "I can speak a little English" and then speak it better than most Americans.
When I visited Germany, I tried a few times to converse in what little German I knew. In almost every instance, the person I was talking to said something along the lines of “my English is not so good but I can try,” and I’m thinking “well your English is way better than my German, so no problem!”
This is usually an accent thing. Grammar and even vocabulary tend to be very good, but most German's don't have the chance to actually speak a lot of English, resulting in a pretty noticeable accent, which gets mocked relentlessly (not even necessary by people from other countries, but more from other Germans).
A lot of us are very aware of our accents and are very self-conscious about it, resulting in people telling you they speak "a little English", when they're objectively basically fluent.
That's sad that you guys are embarrassed by your accent bc as an American I think your German accented English is adorable
Similar experience in the south. They seem quite content with whatever level of German you have, but are willing to switch to English if they know it.
I think it depends where in Germany. In more rural areas, you better be able to speak German. In the cities, many people speak amazing English.
When I studied abroad, I would speak German and they would answer in English. A lot of them viewed a native English speaker as free practice.
Italy Is kinda true, we like being like a meme but if we get mad we're gonna slay you and your whole mfing family (the southerns are the most cruel)(sorry for my English but I'm Italian)
It reminds me of that one comedian who was part Italian and he spoke the language and the Chef at the resturant brought out his whole family to see the affair and then was like. "We gonna feed you till you explode." And idk if that was being friendly or a threat.
You're thinking of John Pinette. He has a bit where he says in France they pretended not to understand him when he asked "where's breakfast" but in Italy they loved him saying "sono affamato".
As an American tourist I felt a bit judged in Italy for my poor Italian because I have a common Italian last name. Oh well.
Ireland should really be pink, we love if people learn a cúpla focail (few words) in Irish. Even better if they call it Gaielge not Gaelic.
came here for ireland and the map not recognizing ireland has its own language lol but tír gan teanga tír gan anam right?
Is fearr Gaielge bhriste ná Béarla cliste!
My 2 year old refers to milk as bainne.
For clarification, we don’t speak Irish in our household. We live in the US. But we listen to Irish music and one of the songs says “Bainne na bó is na gamhna” and I kept referring to milk as bainne. Now she says bainne every time she wants milk hahahaha
Yeah, but in our case it'd be "look on in bafflement because you've forgotton the minimal amount you used to pass your leaving cert 12 years ago".
I just get PTSD of "Cuid A: Leigh anois go cúramach ar do scrúidpháipér na ceisteanna agus na treoireacha a ghabhann le Cuid A...
... ... beeeeeeep"
*Gaeilge. Sorry.
Even if you just know how to pronounce sláinte at the pub, you'll be well regarded.
UK
Maybe older folks will be impressed but if you sound like the scouse don't fucking talk to me or anyone else here
Feel you. I know a Scouser. Can't understand a damn word that man says. Has to repeat himself at least 3 times before I understand.
So if I go into a convenience store in the UK and as for “A BOTTLE OF WATER” will I get what I ask for or is he gonna look at me weird and ask “Don’t you mean a’wa’o’bot’ol?”
If you're an American you're probably asking for a boddle'uh wadder without realizing it.
Fair point.
Not qccentuating the T's in some words is so true... Now I sit here typing, trying to say B-ott-le or wa-tur just sounds strange. Thanks for pointing that out, lol.
Probably point at the fridge they're in & call you a tosser lol
to quote the late great John Pinette about his time in a French Hotel:
"Excuse me, do you where I can get some breakfast?"
"Je ne comprends pas monsieur"
"YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING! You're watching CNN in English! Where's breakfast!?"
An old high school teacher talked about his euro trip and how they practiced in French how to say excuse me, where is the airport?
When they got off the train they asked the first guy they saw... he started telling them in French... that was the moment they realized they don't understand him and one of then said FUCK! WE DONT KNOW WHAT HE'S SAYING!
To which the guy responded FUCK! I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING!
He told them in English then.
Idk I was in Germany and they dont want to continue in English, in fact they dont want to continue at all if it’s not fluent german 😂
Have you been in the North, by any chance? Because then it has nothing to do with the language, or where you are from. They just don't want to talk at all. Not even with other Germans.
I don't like language snobs, but I can respect not wanting to talk to anyone at all. 😉
This is why I'm so annoyed by the fact that Mecklenburg is still referred to as East German just because we ended up on the wrong side of the wall. We share the same agricultural and maritime traditions, have a similar dialect and by god do we hate talking to people too.
In my experience Russians (idk about the country itself) are green. At least in the Baltics they get easily annoyed if you can't speak proper Russian. Ukraine, Latvia and Poland are pink. Estonia and Finland are blue (people there think that their languages are too hard for foreigners. And aren't too patient with a thick foreign accents).
Also Finns jump on every chance to show off their English skills.
Why do I feel like this was written by a finn...
His reddit avatar looks kinda Finnish so there's that
I like learning languages and was trying Finnish for a little. On three separate occasions with three different Finns, I was asked, verbatim "Why are you wasting your time?"
So I stopped learning Finnish. Perkele.
As an Estonian who gets to understand Finnish thanks to the languages sharing the same root, I have to agree with the Finns.
It's a nightmare of a language to learn academically. I think if you want to learn it, you go to Finland and learn through immersion.
Like Estonian, Finnish has an absurd amount of cases.
Finnish has fifteen noun cases: four grammatical cases, six locative cases, two essive cases (three in some Eastern dialects), and three marginal cases.
You'll literally want to off yourself trying to learn those to memory.
Estonian has 14 cases and as a native I don't know a single one. I don't know a single grammatical rule because it all sounds way too stupid and complicated to me.
Anyone wanting to learn our language "for fun" has got to be masochistic, lol.
Is it not just like with swedes. "If we take this in English the conversation will be over faster and I can be alone again".
Yes, they very much indeed seek for any slight opportunity to boast with their knowledge of the English language…
As a Russian I can say that Russia is pink or yellow. Most of the Russians will be shocked if you can speak Russian at least on B1
In my experience they think it's cute and pat you on the head, then go off speaking at full speed like you can keep up.
When I was there around 2000, people were very encouraging about me learning Russian. They were generally amazed. I remember one taxi driver suggested I get a Russian girlfriend to help with language learning while my wife was in the car with me. That was awkward :D
In Russia itself it isn't so critical to not speak properly, at least in Moscow that is - a lot of workers from Central Asia and Caucasus don't speak the language properly, but in general it usually isn't an obstacle for a conversation.
Yes, there is the chance to be joked about a little bit or be corrected sometimes, but usually (with exceptions with douchebags and xenophobes) it is ok to speak in a broken Russian
Bober kurwa, ja pierdole! I hope it is the correct spelling.
For Denmark it's kinda like we already have to deal with 30 dialects and the occasional Swede so when your ass starts speaking your best attempt at our potato tongue it can be really hard to understand.
A valiant effort, but you don't have to suffer for our sake.
Lmfao, my dane friend said something similar. He said it's fucking pointless to learn and ridiculously hard and stupid in comparison to English.
Hungary is halfway between a yellow and pink. "God morning (in Hungarian)" "OMG YOU SPEAK SOOO WELL! HERE'S A PALINKA TESÓ"
If you don't want to learn hungarian akkor a kurva anyád. Jk
Honestly, if an outsider can speak Hungarian well, that's damn impressive. If a language is harder than Polish then anyone speaking it is impressive enough xd
Can confirm (I can indeed speak a decent hungarian), it does take an enormous amount of grit and consistent practice to get it to decent levels. And a girlfriend/wife that does not cringe at every small errors :D
A colleague learned just a couple of words and we adored him.
As a resident of a yellow country bordering a pink country. We have both. Older generations lean to pink, younger to the yellow side. Welcome to Moldova 😂
No. I am very impressed and respectful if that happens. Ukraine
I'm trying to learn Ukrainian. As my grandparents immigrated from there, to the states in 30s.
The pronunciation isn't hard. But man, the Cyrillic alphabet is kicking my ass.
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I feel like Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian would be more like "wow you know 2 words in my language!"
I know only "suka blyat" and maybe "soyuz nierushimi" even though I'm Slav... So I'd be glad if that were the case
Been to almost all of these countries.
Here's my take.
Green, accurate.
Red countries, accurate.
Blue and yellow countries, when you get acquainted with someone or start being friendly. They only want to speak English, because they just want to use you to practice their English. They could give a damn you are trying to learn their language.
Friends and family in the Blue and yellow countries, will encourage you to learn the language. But from my experience, will be very 'British' about it. Meaning this: Must use correct pronunciation and grammar. Sometimes to the point you want to say fuck it, and just speak English. They mean well, but when you are just trying to ask something, or answer a question, you're stuck for an additional 5 minutes being lectured and having to recite your small mistakes until you can get back on topic to the conversation.
Sometimes you get the "I speak English so well, and you are still struggling with ________, I'm so intelligent." Type people. Yet English is way easier than their language. There are no masculine feminine or neutral pronouns, and 6 to 8 ways to say a verb. (Talking about Slavic languages) So not only do you have masculine, feminine and neutral pronouns but also the verbs change up to 8 ways depending on how it's used in the sentence.
Simply saying dog in all contexts don't exist. You have 6 to 8 ways to say dog. And that goes for EVERYTHING. And you would hope they sound similar. Nope they don't. Saying dog one way can sound completely different and spelled differently depending on how dog is used.
To add to the bullshit confusion. They say their language is 'rich' if so... Then why do you have the same word for fingers and toes. A rich language would use separate words. Not just change the word depending on how it's used. So now I have to say the finger on my feet, 8 fucking ways. How is that 'rich'... You cannot even come up with a new word for something completely different. You have to explain with more words what the hell your trying to say. And then create 8 ways of saying it.
This turned into more of a rant.
But telling your friends you walked the dog today, and having to be lectured and do a goddamn elementary school recital on pronunciation. JUST to answer their question on what you did this morning becomes frustrating...
In Romania-fuck yes that's accurate.
Poland should be pink.
Jebem ti mater= BFF
I’m also very thankful if you try to speak dutch, I don’t mind the accent, belgian btw
I can confirm that even most dutch people wouldn't mind, in fact I'd think it'd be pretty cool actually
The French really are „that odd kid“ in the big european kindergarden.
On one hand, they still aspire to be home to an international language. On the other, (basing my knowledge on the internet), they often refuse to talk if you butcher the language. That's the thing you need to accept if you want lots of people using it - they have to put extra time and effort, so ofc most people will be relatively bad. In English it's much more accepted to be less than fluent.
Yeah, every time I see r/learnpolish on my feed I question why even learn that language xD
Can confirm, ppl literally said "Why tf you even trying to learn this language tho?" in Iceland
I once bought a can of tuna in britain. The cashier gave me a lesson on how to exactly correctly pronounce "tjuuunaa"...
Not when the only 2 words they always say is Cristiano Ronaldo
As a resident of a Pink Country - yes, yes it very much is.