@Ivan: of course not, but it does put you in an odd posistion. I ask out of curiosity to see what others have to say about it, not necessarily because I find it offensive or because I’m a closed-minded American that expects everyone else to cater to her.
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At least not for the most part. :P
@Mr_Callahan: sorry, buddy, but I actually understood all of that. :P But yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Lurve for you.
@sap82: I took a little Spanish in high school, but it just wasn’t something I could get into. I can pick out general meanings if they aren’t talking incredibly fast, but I don’t have much of a desire to actually speak it. Unless I were dropped off in the middle of a Spanish-speaking country and left there for like a year and left to fend for myself, unfortunately I don’t think I’d pick up the language on my own, lol. Idk, it was one of those high school credit things, so I took it. And so now my friends sometimes like to lose me in their fast-talking conversations on purpose. Which is fine ‘cause I know they do it just for fun. Though they do like to make me feel guilty for not speaking it.
But I’ve also heard stories from other people, somewhat similar to what @kheredia mentioned, where you try to speak the language out of courtesy but they reply back in yours. I laugh when I hear this, but something like that seems rather mean to me. I mean, yeah, it can be funny hearing someone who’s new to a language try and speak it, but not giving them a chance at all…?
<sighs> And then you have people who can sit in the internet cafe typing in French, talking on their cellphone in Spanish then occassionally say stuff to the guy next to them in English. Idk, I just find this all fascinating ‘cause I’m around English speakers for the most part. I guess if you spoke more than one language fluently it wouldn’t seem so amazing, but I’m not one of those people.
Which compels me to ask random questions, like this!