Do you feel uncomfortable with a foreign speaking your language?

[Wabsta]

I do feel uncomfortable when speaking english. I'm pretty good, but we dutch people have this awfull accent. So while I'm perfectly comfortable typing english, you won't find me on skype/ teamspeak/ etc. with foreign people real quick.

Also, I LOVE it when french girls/ women speak english with that gorgeous accent.

 

[chris888222]

The official language of China is Mandarin(putonghua). I think Chinese people have no difficulty to live in Singapore. : P

Our government only recognizes Mandarin as the official Chinese language in Singapore.
Plus we are also using the simplified script (unlike HK/Taiwan), so yeah.

Our spoken Mandarin is closer to the ROC version though.

 

[The Catboy]

I don't mind it really and in some cases it's really cute

 

[DarkStriker]

Makes me feel uncomfortable in some situations and I don't mind in others it depends on the situation I find

Wait... Dont you live in Norway ?!?!?!?

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

Wait... Dont you live in Norway ?!?!?!?

...Yea... Why?

 

[DarkStriker]

...Yea... Why?

Shouldn't you be used to seeing africans speaking norwegian or asians speaking norwegian then? Its already been like more than 30~ years since they came to Norway, or a part of that. That being said its kinda annoying though when i meet poles(not pole but poles yes) and they dont understand norwegian. True their there for working black or most of them, but atleast try to learn the language to the country you live in.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

Shouldn't you be used to seeing africans speaking norwegian or asians speaking norwegian then? Its already been like more than 30~ years since they came to Norway, or a part of that. That being said its kinda annoying though when i meet poles(not pole but poles yes) and they dont understand norwegian. True their there for working black or most of them, but atleast try to learn the language to the country you live in.

I'm native English British not Norwegian

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Why is this a question? What am I, Japan?

It's better than a "foreigner" speaking a language I don't understand so I can't communicate with them.

 

[Its_just_Lou]

I'm native English British not Norwegian

"They aren't Swedes, Mac, they are Norwegian."

 

[Pleng]

And the funniest this is they guys who did make fun of me, they just know how to speak Spanish!

Is it possible that by saying a word incorrectly, what you were saying became incredibly funny? If the people who you were talking to can't speak English, then it would be difficult for them to explain why exactly they were laughing.

When I began out learning Thai, I was trying to ask for a big bottle of water. Didn't know the term bottle, so I figured 'big water' should do it. So I asked the lady in my hotel for big water. Big water. She was looking alarmed and I kept on saying the words, altering my pronunciation of the work for 'water' time and time again until I got it right. The girl looked relieved when I'd finally made myself clear. And took her hand off the phone, which she had grabbed half way through my futile attempts to express myself.


I didn't know it at the time, but the girls reaction made a lot more sense a couple of weeks later when I found out what I'd been barking at her.

Turns out that the pronunciation of the word for water in the Thai language isn't a million miles away from the pronunciation of the word for 'tits'.

 

[DarkStriker]

I'm native English British not Norwegian

Explains, explains! You should feel lucky because its like one in every 100000 that dooesnt speak english. Feels awesome because you can like speak english with everyone as if it were nothing. That being said some people might have hard time on the british language though.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

Explains, explains! You should feel lucky because its like one in every 100000 that dooesnt speak english. Feels awesome because you can like speak english with everyone as if it were nothing. That being said some people might have hard time on the british language though.

Drunk Norwegian's trying to talk English thinking there fluent in English makes me cringe

 

[dreampeppers99]

Is it possible that by saying a word incorrectly, what you were saying became incredibly funny? If the people who you were talking to can't speak English, then it would be difficult for them to explain why exactly they were laughing.

Yeah It could be, it seems reasonable !

 

[narutofan777]

no if they have a bad accent, i feel bad for them because it's kind of hard for me to understand them.

if they speak fluently then i'm like wtf. tbh I only know a couple of words in my native language although I can understand like 30% of what people say to me. so if a foreigner can speak better than me its embarrassing.