Two years ago, I was visiting my aunt in France. I was in this cafe and next to my table there were two guys and one of them was continuously glancing at me and quickly looking away. They, completely unaware that I'm pretty good at French, were loudly talking about something along the lines of "that girl is pretty cute" "just go talk to her already." After a couple minutes, which felt like hours, he finally came up to me and started talking in english. I replied in French and his face went completely red and his friend bursted out laughing. We've been together ever since in a long distance relationship. I'll be seeing him again in a few days and I couldn't be anymore happier💕
Something like "Piç, nique ta mere, Hurensohn!"? (turkish, french, german) Happens to me too ... sometimes ... actually never, I just happen to know these.
I actually did that in Germany once, I was with a friend and we were about 18, we had the wrong ticket for reasons I don't remember and pretended we didn't speak anything besides Spanish, just kept insistently repeating the name of the place we were going with the worst pronunciation possible and the ticket guy was finally like "fuck it, they really don't understand at all". We both speak perfect German and English, I honestly cannot justify our actions at all.
(Does sign language count? Ha ha) Once, I was at a public cafe and was eating peacefully when I looked up and saw a deaf woman and what I assumed to be her friend/interpretor signing something to each other while one tried to discreetly point at me. She signed: "That woman. I like her dress." Or something similar. I was with my mother, but my mom did not know ASL. As we were leaving, I stopped by their table (they watched us as we passed) and signed: "Thank you. That was nice of you to say." She looked a little taken aback but smiled and signed : "you're welcome." As we left, I caught her friend signing: "well then." To her. I still have that dress.
So I’m American but i was born and raised in Ghana, most of the people in my school think i don’t speak any of the local languages but I’m actually really fluent in twi and Fante. In the sixth grade, the girl sitting behind me would gossip and insult me in twi then she would compliment me in English thinking i did not understand her twi,one day when she and her goons were laughing at my dark skin saying that i did not look any thing like an American. I turned slowly and replied her in twi saying black is beauty. The look on her face was priceless Wow, I did not know I had this many likes
@@unrepentantjaegerist7236 yeah she has a Ghanaian name. I would assume she's black. Also, most people around here dont expect non citizens to know the local languages, as they arent spoken outside the country much
I'm a robot learning English, which is quite different from my native binary code. One time, while I was working on a narration project, I pronounced 'Fiancé' as 'Finna K'. Very embarrassing!
My dad and I were on holiday in Rome and waiting in line for a Colosseum tour. We were speaking Finnish with each other, when these two Norwegian boys start mocking and talking shit about us in Norwegian. Little did they know my dad is fluent in Norwegian. He leaned towards the boys and whispered (in Norwegian of course) something along the lines of: ”You never know what languages people can actually speak.”
How did they react to that? Lmao! Can just imagine the shock on their faces and how utterly embarrassed they must have felt. Serves them right for talking shit. lol
Good part in speaking portuguese is that you understand a lot of spanish so I don't know shit about spanish, but we still can understand some of what they say.
so i'm vietnamese but i studied mandarin in school, so i'm pretty fluent. so one time my mom and i went to china on a trip together. we went to a market, and these two college-ish girls stopped walking and began to have a conversation about me in the language: girl 1: "her hair is so pretty." girl 2: "ah, but she's a foreigner..." pretending i didn't understand, i glanced at them for half a second and continued walking with my mom. later on, i bumped into them again and they noticed me. again. girl 1: "it's that foreigner girl again. i wonder what hair products she uses?" girl 2: "stop thinking about it. she's a foreigner." i noticed that girl 1 seemed to admire my hair, but girl 2 seemed to dislike me for my foreign appearance. since we were in really close proximity to each other, i shared to the girls my hair routine as well as the products i use, in the language of course. girl 2 was super embarrassed. both of them exited the store super quickly and the last thing i saw was girl 1 laughing so hard at her friend. that made my day. :D
Fen Schragel-Enriquez I live in South America but I’m European, so my mother tongue isn’t either English or Spanish but I’m fluent in both, so I get to pull this aaaaall the time here. 😂 When someone is a bit intrusive trying to sell me someone on the street? No hablo español (in the worst accent possible). And if they change to English I just go “förlåt, jag kan inte prata engelska” and smile sheepishly. I can almost always get out of any situation by just pretending I don’t speak the language 😂 It’s great!
I always do that the it's easier. especially when strangers ask for directions to somewhere. (I am living in a city for 10 years and I still don't know 60% of it....ik) and I speak a different languages
I had a cashier cuss me out in Arabic once. I thought he was going to pass out when I replied in Arabic. Another time I had asked a waitress about mushrooms in a dish. I have an allergy so I was persistent but not rude in my inquiry. She brought my meal out and walked away while saying “see how you like your allergic reaction, that’s what you get” in Mandarin. I confronted her and the manager and she played innocent until I repeated my argument in Mandarin. I live in the south and have a country ass accent so nobody expects me to be able to speak intelligible English, much less Arabic or Mandarin.
Languages have been the only thing I’ve ever been good at. I learned Arabic because there was a somewhat large Middle Eastern population where I lived. It mostly friends in that community that taught me. I majored in Mandarin in college with minors in Russian and American Sign Language
I'm german and there was a russian kid in my class. The teacher asked him in german:"Do you speak german?/Do you understand me?" (I can't remember which one it was) and the russian kid replied in german:"No I don't." The whole class burst out laughing
Es scheinen sehr viele Russen in Schulen in Deutschland zu geben, nicht wahr? Ich finde es immer voll witzig, da ein Kind etwas in Russisch schreien kann und oft versteht es jemand anderes. Aber anscheinend gibt es fast gar keine Spanier (jedenfalls habe ich noch nie einen Spanier in Deutschland gesehen) und daher macht es Spass, Spanisch anzuwenden, da ich es momentan lerne. Ich warte nur noch auf den Tag, an dem ich endlich jemanden finde, der auch Spanisch kann. Es wuerde bestimmt witzig sein :)
TicTacManiac sorry dude I don’t speak angry. Get it? Because the joke is that the German language sounds angry when spoken! It is still funny even after I explain the joke. And then everybody clapped, the end.
@@Janfon1 I both agree and disagree at the same time. I mean to be honest, they're not entirely wrong. There aren't a whole lot of good people in the world and it's an unfortunate fact that you'd have to come to terms with. There's really no good way to look at it and to say it's pessimistic and dismiss just because it's negative means that you could potentially miss out on the truth however negative it may be. I disagree in a way too as I think more good people are turning up everyday. That's just my opinion on the matter though. That is all!
I'm Swedish and hearing the text-to-speech voice read the train Company SJ as "Society of Jesus" is so hilariously fitting, since they're known for regularly being off-schedule, you might as well actually be waiting for the second coming
@Osoro Shidesu: Yes. Society of Jesus are more commonly known as the Jesuits. They are the most deadly and evil of all cults. They kill, create false artifacts, promote lies, abduct children, perform human sacfrices, worship Lucifer... and all while fronting as Christians. They have agents all over the world.
@EC Kuhl, For a start, research the PiltDown Man fake fossil, it was used to support Darwinian evolution, which undercut biblical credibility in the minds of those with nonexistent or minimal relationship with my Father in Heaven. A Jesuit named Pierre de Chardin created it. After that, research the origin of Communism. Karl Marx? Nope. Marx was the front man for Fredrick Engles, a Jesuit. Are there Jesuits who are not top level saboteurs and assassins? Perhaps. Then again, maybe the Jesuit you think you know has you deceived... along with the rest of the world. In a recent bond movie, Bond, in the opening scene, mentions a secret cabal so powerful that nobody even knows they exist. The film hints at who they are when the chase scene ends with a fight inside a Catholic Church.
one time i sat next to a Korean girl at school, i didn't know she was Korean. she was really cute so my bisexual ass decides to whisper "oh my god, she's so pretty" to myself in Korean. she turned to me and said, in Korean, "thanks, you're cute too." i died a little bit on the inside edit: to everyone saying i shouldve asked her out, she's back home in Korea now.
Living Trashbag That was the perfect opportunity to ask her out! Why would you feel ashamed over saying that? Don’t be! You didn’t insult her and you weren’t creepy either.
Also is she 언니? Because this girl asked me out in korean ( google translate version ) but she called me 언니 so I found it super cute. ( btw pansexual over here) 누나 has always been weird if I’m dating a guy, for some reason I’m cool if it’s a girl but not a guy??? I don’t why I’m telling you these things but here it is anyway
So I don't look very german (which I am) and speak English with a somewhat british accent. One time during summer a friend of mine and I were riding the train, chitchating in English, when this group of guys (around the same age as us) walks in and takes the seats next to us. They start comparing us and calling dibs (wtf). Then one of them asks my friend (who also speaks german) in broken english if she'd like to have a drink with him some time and if he can have her number. Obviously, she declines. Another guy then 'apologizes' for his friend and proceeds to ask me the same question. In perfectly clear german and picking up their conversation I say 'Sorry, I don't date people who brag about screwing a girl before she even gets the chance to turn him down.' The 2 Minute ride to the next stop (where they surprisingly left) is something I'll never forget 😂
@Lord Farquaad If u think about it, basically, NO ONE can "look" German, Italian, Indian, etc. So, that person only meant "look german" as in "the stereotype people have about germans' appearance". Example: "Stereotypers" think that all Asians have monolids. Meanwhile, a majority of Indians don't have monolids. India has the 2nd highest population, which (in this topic) means, "asian = only the monolid people" is a stereotype that can be only afforded by extremely ignorant people. [This reminds me of another stereotype that "Indians aren't Asians". So, if anyone thought that, please just google India's location on the world map].
I speak Russian at home with my family. I remember coming into work one day (waitress) and getting a table of Russian women. The entire time they were talking shit and every time I would come around they had something mean to say. So when they had paid their bill and were about to leave, I decided to say 'Bye thanks for coming!" in Russian. Their faces dropped lol. They never came back.
I live in Puerto Rico and speak both English and Spanish. My English is flawless and most other Puerto Ricans call me "gringo" cause of it lol. Anyways a few years ago an old lady from the states (who doesn't speak Spanish) moved into a house next to my grandma's in the rural mountains of PR. Nobody in those mountains know English. But the old lady wanted to make friends and would often try to talk to her new neighbors and my grandma... Sadly the language barrier made this impossible. But they were all on good terms and helped each other with their crops regardless. One day I went to visit my grandma and she told me to say hello to the "gringa" in English and also to translate on both sides. So we went over to her house and I saw funniest thing. She had other neighbors over helping her with crops and she was just talking non-stop in English to em about random topics and they had such a massive (._.) face. Anyways so she notices us approaching and greets us in English and my grandma greets her in Spanish. Then I just say "Howdy miss! How's the mountains of Puerto Rico treating ya?" Her eyes just bulge out and she was excited to be able to speak English and actually be understood haha. Anyways the other neighbors took the opportunity and used me to translate to her that they all wanted to be friends and all that. She was very happy. She passed away a few months ago. A sad loss.
Once I was at IKEA with my dad and two Italian people were in the lift. They didn't know that we can understand Italian and she said to the guy "Why can't thay take the stairs or wait for the next lift? I don't want to share this lift.". My dad said in Italian "It's only us two and we don't bite." (that makes more sence in Italian). Their faces were hilarious.😂
I'm latina and speak Spanish but I don't ''look latina'' So one time I went to the movies with my nephew who's was like 5 or something and we both went up to get drinks but the lady at the register seemed a bit mad. I was ordering the drinks when my nephew accidentally dropped something that was on the counter and the lady said in Spanish, ''These kids have no sense of decency'' I just keep talking in English until she finally gave us our drinks I thanked her and said in Spanish,'' Before you talk about other people's decency make sure yourself have some.'' And then just left.
Los latinos no lucimos de cierta manera, lo que pasa es que en Estados Unidos asumen que todos somos de una sola etnia, en mi país(Uruguay) por ejemplo somos descendientes de españoles, italianos y otras etnias provenientes de Europa, lo mismo pasa en Argentina, yo luzco más eslava que otra cosa(mi abuela paterna es hija de polacos y mi madre es nieta de españoles), si llegara a ir a los Estados Unidos el idioma que menos pensarían que hablo es español porque así de asumidas tienen ciertas cosas con respecto a Latinoamérica
Yuta's healing smile 6104 Si es verdad, no soy latina pero vivo en colombia desde unos años. Soy mona y blanca con ojos azules, pero nadie piensa que no soy colombiana si me quedo callada (jajaja a veces cuando digo algo en español si entienden que soy extranjera, no tengo un acento terrible, pero tampoco es colombiano). Tengo amigos colombianos más blancos y con pelo más mono que yo. Y colombia no es famoso por eso, más otros países aquí en America Latina en donde hay mucho más blancos y monos.
It's not exactly a multilingual story, but I'm Romanian and my name sounds kind of Spanish. In high school, my Spanish teachers kept thinking I was Spanish (from Spain) and talking to me in Spanish in the hallway. I just stood there and nodded and said "si" whenever they paused, but had no clue what they were saying hahahaha
Okay so I've been studying Korean for about 2 years now and I have to say that I am relatively good (at least with basic conversation, pronunciation, and grammar). I was at Starbucks and a few ladies sitting there commented about how ugly my clothes were. While my mom was paying for my drink, I tapped on of their shoulders and said "You spilled coffee on your shirt" in Korean. They all looked at me with wide eyes and I gotta tell you, that was probably the best thing I've done in my 15 years of living. Edit: the most likes and replies I've ever gotten jeezus
*Chechen walks in* Russian family: *pretends to tell story in country accent* MAN, I JUST GOT THESE BRAND NEW BOOOTS. THESE HERE ARE SNAKE SKIN. ILL TELL YA WHAY, YOU SHOULD SEE MY TRUCK. I GOT ER LINNED UP ALL NICE AND PERTY WITH SOME GATOR SKIN. HOW’BOUT WE GO CRACK A COLD ONE, PARTNER.
@@simplyhonest4316 Holy shit fucking god dammit, this is the first time a comment made me laugh, my mind was reading this with an accent holy shit im dying right noww
I am a college student (major:liberal arts Japanese). While heading to class these two Japanese boys are talking and happen to be going the same way as me. I heard one of them talking about my book bag (it was legend of zelda). Apparently he thought it looked really cool and wanted to ask where I got it, but was afraid to use English. I turned around and responded in Japanese, both boys were shocked. They complemented my Japanese and we spoke for a few minutes. After they found out I study the language they wished me luck and told me to do my best.
I'm whiter than the average white person, but I'm completely Mexican. I remember when I asked the price of an item and this Mexican guy told me in English "I'll go check". He then talked to his other Mexican friend and the first guy said in Spanish "what price should I tell him?". The other guy then said, "charge him like $40" (it's supposed to cost $20). He then came back and told me it would cost $40. I then replied in Spanish and said "make it $15 and I might just come back". His face went red instantly, and so did the other Mexican guy. It was an amazing moment.
Less of a multilingual 'experience' but more of a cringe thing: I'm Korean and still in secondary school in England. I speak Korean fluently... but with the rise of Korean entertainment, there have been an influx of Koreaboos at my school. Their Korean is so cringeworthy and honestly it's offensive how some of them stereotype us? I saw one of them try to glue their eyelids to get a 'monolid' and I was shocked and honestly quite self-conscious about how my eyes looked. Some of them tried to be friends with me, completely uninterested in who I am as a person but more obsessing over the fact that I'm Korean? I have no problem with people trying to learn Korean or appreciating Korean culture, but stereotyping us and fetishizing us is honestly just stupid and makes me feel kind of... dehumanised in a sense? As if I was a toy for them to obsess over for a year or something and then thrown away. Also, ily if you're trying to learn Korean but there's a line between genuine interest/appreciation and cringe. I have no problem if they were trying to communicate with me in Korean over texts/speech to improve their language skills, but they're not even trying. They just insert random 'Korean' words into their everyday speech and try to pass it off as Korean, which hugely misrepresents our culture and language. It's gotten to the point where I've seen people on the internet being called Koreaboos simply because they appreciate and are trying to learn more about our culture. It's turning people off learning about us :( Sorry about the huge rant if you read this but I just needed to get this off my chest. It's been bugging me for ages.
I know I like kpop and all, but I got called a koreaboo just because I was trying to learn a phrase to say to my best friend's mom, who isn't very fluent in English, would that still be considered being a koreaboo? I just wanna know cause i feel bad?
@@yosi4722No not at all. Because you were just trying to speak to one of your relatives 😄 Edit:Woww thank you for the likes guys 😊😊I really appreciate it ❤️❤️❤️
@@yosi4722 Nah that's just being helpful. As long as you're not trying to pass yourself off as Korean/fetishize them/misrepresent our culture, that's fine.
Yup me too im fluent in korean, its my first language, and im half korean, so i really dont look korean, and people has said really rude things about me and they thought i couldnt understand
I'm sorry you had to go through that. I myself am learning Korean, but I'm also learning other languages because I like learning other languages. My goal is to Know Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and Korean fluently as well as a bit of German. I want to travel and actually be able to hold conversations with people when I travel. I love Kpop like many people but would never fetishize Korean people, as a POC myself I know a thing or two about my race and culture being a fetish for others.
Okay, so this happened on my first day at school. I was sitting with a guy and talked to him in English because I was more comfortable with it, he thought I could only speak English so he started talking to his friend about me in Tagalog. Their conversation about me was like "She's a foreigner dude. I'm sure of it!" "Yeah, just look at her! She's definitely a foreigner!" I could understand everything they said and was debating if I should tell them or not, I had a hard time controlling my laughter and keeping a straight face when they started chatting about who should asked me first. Minutes go by and I finally had enough 😂 I spoke to them in Tagalog and told them that I could understand what they were saying and stuff, they turned beet red. My other classmates who was eavesdropping on their conversation heard me and stared at me in disbelief. That was hilarious 😂
Haha that reminds me of a time here in China. I'm a pretty pale white American dude, but in the far northwest of China there are multiple ethnic minorities that could pass for European or white and I've been mistaken for some of those minorities on more than a few occasions because I live pretty close to those provinces where the lighter skinned minorities live...One of the more amusing times I was mistaken was when I was shopping for parts for my electric scooter and I hear this older Chinese Muslim guy and his children arguing whether or not I'm a foreigner or a Chinese minority...I felt really bad to burst his bubble when he found out he was wrong and I really was a foreigner. I've also had at least two or three occasions where people asked me what Chinese ethnic minority I was and I told them I was white American and they were like, "yeah okay, but are you Han Chinese or Hui Chinese?"
@@bossbabyfuyuhiko6657 exactly, you are learning fast, but can you this? "Telefónica es el próximo gran desastre económico español, la cantidad de deuda es masiva y el servicio al cliente carece de los aspectos más básicos de educacion, una desgracia de compañia" I bet you can't, without using the Google Translator.
I’m Swedish and very socially anxious. When visiting London with my brother I would most often talk to him in Swedish and then let him translate the words to any English person. Not because I didn’t know English but simply because I felt more relaxed talking Swedish. I sat down at a cafe and my brother went to get the food. Some fellas one table over had probably heard me ramble in Swedish and were yelling at me stuff like “Stupid Russian go back to your own country” etc and then laughing when I looked confused. My brother came back and asked me in Swedish what was going on and me, still being confused replied in English “These people thinks I’m Russian.” They acted like they hadn’t noticed us and left just a few minutes later.
What a bunch of assholes ugh. They must be pretty stupid if they don't know what Russian sounds like, Swedish is obviously a germanic language while you cant understand Russian at all
Dana Dar I don't think they had anything against Russia... I think they just heard someone talking in a language they didn't know and decided to be jerks. I think it just so happened that they thought it was Russian. But, I can't know for sure. I don't think you have to be worried about it though. They're just immature jerks. 😂😊
I’m British, I grew up here, I live in Bristol now, I’ve only ever left once to go on holiday. However I have a very good knack for learning languages. I learnt German in school, did french in collage and learnt Spanish from an online course. I worked in a store for a while and we would get a lot of foreign citizens coming in which is why I got the job and why I stick around at this place. We had a group of girls come in and start looking at the clothes we have. They pick out some and walk over to the checkout where I’m standing. One of them, who is better at talking English than the rest pay for the clothes and as I’m scanning them, she looks over her shoulder at her friends and says, “He’s really cute isn’t he” in German and the girls giggle. I pretend not to notice and keep scanning. They’ve bought a lot of clothes, mostly skirts, tops, a few jackets, but also some bras and knickers, that’s panties for Americans. I take them out of the basket and make a move to scan them but the girl said something else that caught me off guard, “I bet he’d love to see me in those”. I cough from the shock but play it off because I don’t want them to know I can understand them. I’m only half way through their 3 baskets of clothes and this girl won’t stop talking about me being cute or how I’d probably love seeing her in the clothes I’m scanning. My German has got rusty because the store doesn’t get w lot of German customers, mostly french and Spanish, but I’m pretty sure I’m hearing this right. When I’m finally down scanning the items, I smile and say, in German, “That’s £58 and 43p please.” The girl who was talking goes bright red white her friends burst out laughing. She suddenly loses he ability to pay and her friend has to help her out. I place the clothes into the bags and say, again in German, “I think you’ll look good in all of these”. They left and I could here her trying to dig herself out of the hole she was in. They came back a week later to buy some more clothes, like how many do you need? I ended up getting her number that time and we’ve been dating for about 5 and a half months now. Being bilingual does help.
As a swede, that was the funniest thing in the whole vid. Sj =Society of Jesus 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 For those who don't speak swedish: SJ stand for "statens järnvägar" = The national railways 😁
There is always a group of "popular" Hispanic girls at my school, when I was in elementary school I was not well liked by them And would often hear them talking when I walked near them. At first, I didn't realize they were talking about me, as they talked in Spanish, but after one not so discretely jabbed a finger at me I gained a slow suspicion these girls were talking ABOUT me. They hardly talked in Spanish unless they were complaining in class without the teacher understanding. one day I walked into class keeping a sly eye on the group as I sat down. I stopped as soon as the test started, because as an elementary schooler I had been what was called "a mother goose" or "teacher's pet" I felt a strange feeling that someone was looking at me, and when I looked to the group of girls I found one, not looking at me, but my paper. I quickly told the teacher, and after the test found that same girl talking in Spanish. I at the time had no idea what they were saying, but my teacher secretly knew what they were saying. apparently, my teacher had kept his bilingual abilities a secret for his entire career and secretly knew every one of his Spanish speaking students complaints. Soon after he heard what they were saying, he (in Spanish) told them off. The girls turned red and one even cussed. later on, I eventually found out that she had been calling me a donkey and other rude things, and I was entirely grateful that the teacher had broken his Spanish speaking secret to defend me.
There was a German teacher that nobody really liked. She always assigned three times the homework of any other class. 4 to 5 pages every day. Not pages in the book.. written pages. The assignments would take half a page to write down which pages were due for homework. One day, we were doing pronunciation corrections, and she got to me. I said what was required, and she corrected what I said. I asked why she thought it was wrong. "I spent one month hitch hiking in Germany. I know what the German dialect sounds like." Me: "Oh." "Why do you think you're correct?" Me: "Because I lived in Germany for 4 years, and the lady that taught me to speak it was born there." *class snickers*
Good on you for being a good student. And Go Teacher Man! Not all Heros wear capes. Those elementary school kids are the ones that need help...lordy. Only 10 and already an awful personality.
When I grew up playing the violin since I was 3 and spent most of my time at my best friends house who also played when I was young. I would practically live there because my mom is an actress and has a lot of work overseas and stuff. Their family was really nice and pretty much only spoke Chinese. Since I was so young and stayed with them for so long I basically learned Chinese. I could understand it pretty well but couldn’t really speak it. My mom didn’t even realize until a few years later when i was watching an interview or something in mandarin and she was like “wtf, do you understand that?” And I was so confused that I did lol. Anyways, my friend had moved back to China with her parents so I wasn’t practicing my Mandarin really. Fast forward later when I’m starting to study the language more (I’m in highschool at this time). I was watching a lot of tv shows in mandarin and talking more and more so I was getting pretty good. Oh, I probably should have mentioned that I’m a white girl a purple pixie cut at this time. OK, so this is when it happens. We’re at Yosemite because it’s pretty and there is a bus full of Chinese people. They’re all tourists with cameras and sun hats. One couple older couple is standing by this ledge with a wall where a ton of people were taking pictures and looking around like they wanted someone to take their picture. They spotted my mom and asked her in broken English something like “can you, picture of us?” And I was like MY TIME TO SHINE BITCHES. So I said in Mandarin. “I can take your picture, where do you want to stand for it?” You should have seen the look on their faces. Anyways, I ended up talking to them a bit about how I was primarily self taught and my favorite Chinese TV shows. They filmed me saying stuff in mandarin for their daughter learning English back home. Fun times
la sheep same. I also wish I can sign language back when at a restaurant some mute stranger was asking for just a little amount of money for somebody's medical needs (she's holding a paper envelope with the message written), I was a student at the time so I couldn't afford to just hand out money so I just returned the paper. That night I googled how to say "sorry" and other commonly used phrases in sign language.
There are only about 7 thousand alive today, most optimistic historical statistics go up to the hundred thousand in human history (the low bar is about 31 thousand). You'd have to invent a whole bunch to get to a million.
I have one, I am hispanic, but I speak fluent English. And one day my mother and I were in LA, at a park. And I was talking with her about how hot a guy in front of us was (in Spanish) and after a while this guy turns around to us and said “Hola” Omg, I was so embarrassed
MrPaws okay what I understood from your sentence: “If you speak Spanish... I hope that you have a great day and god bless you” Gracias, espero que tengas un buen dia! Did I say that right?
I'm French-Canadian, but also a Swedish citizen and speaker through my parents. I learned English, obviously, but also German in school and lived in Germany for a while. This is kind of a double whammy story. I was traveling in Switzerland, to Geneva (in the French-speaking part, but most locals there also speak German). I got to a hostel I had booked online for two nights, showed up at the reception, presented my Swedish passport (only EU ID I had), and spoke to the receptionist in English. Turned out, the online booking hadn't gone through and I wasn't on their system, so she called over the manager. The manager double-checked my passport, made sure the name was correct and that I wasn't on their system. At this point, they both probably assumed I was a Swede who only spoke English (other than Swedish). Bad assumption. So, the manager tells the receptionist, in French, about how I was probably lying about my online booking and it was just a tactic to get a room in a fully booked hostel (high season). So, I defended myself, in French, and told them "how dare you accuse me of lying" and so on. They both turned red and were quite embarrassed. The receptionist told me, nicely, that they were fully booked and there was no room available for two nights, and then she stopped suddenly, said "hold on a minute", and started working the computer intensely. Meanwhile, the manager told her, in German this time, not to bother wasting time with me (or more precisely, with "diesem Arschloch") and to just send me packing. So, I retirted to the manager, in German, that the receptionist clearly cared more about the guests than she did and maybe she (the receptionist) should be the manager. The manager got really aggravated and stormed out, back to her office. The receptionist smiled at me, in a "thank you" sort of way, and soon after, she booked me into two rooms (one for each night), and I had a wonderful stay!
@@Paul-hq7gf exactly my point, who ever wrote the story spelled the word wrong, so when this channel had a bot read it out, it pronounced the word how it was spelled.
It gets funnier the more languages you know. English is my first, followed by Spanish, German, Russian, and soon to be korean. People are more shocked because I'm African American
@@juicykrabb4042 it took me 3 years to learn Spanish, another three for German, and two for Russian. Korean is definitely going to take longer than all of those.
I was in a German/Austrian restaurant in Cambodia. The owner kept talking in English with us. Which was fine to me, since both English and German are foreign languages to me, Dutch is my native language. After a while some German tourists also came in. From that point on we didn't see the owner at our table anymore. He was sitting with the German customers and was saying to them how we were cheapskates for not ordering more food than we did. Because both me and my partner weren't drinking beer, he was telling them we couldn't hold our alcohol, which made us losers. If it hadn't been for the really friendly staff I would've walked out. But we finished our meals, sneaked some money to the waitress and chef without the owner seeing it and went on our way. While we were walking out the owner, fake friendly, wished us a nice evening. To which I replied: Wir reden auch Deutsch, arschloch (we also speak German, asshole) Both the owner and the German guests were shocked. One of the ladies looked like she was going to be sick 🤣
I'm a Chinese born and raised in Germany. One day I was standing in a bookstore with my mom, asking her in Chinese whether I should buy a book by Kafka or Eichendorff (I was holding them in my hands) as an old man came towards me speaking slowly and carefully "Excuse me, I've seen the books and heard your conversation. These might be too difficult for you, the language is hard to understand" I answered in perfect German that I was thankful for his advice but considered my German to be good enough. We ended up talking about Tolstoy and Dostoyewski.
@@zodie4085 They are much more enjoyable if you don't have a teacher breathing down your neck. I went from being a hater to an appreciator once the teacher-issue was in the past
@@basho4306 I am a slow reader in Russian (the alphabet fucks me up sometimes), but I do understand the language completely. What would you recommend for an adult with a literature degree that is easy enough to read?
I'm Polish and I'm used to spend my winter holidays in Austria on Italy. Once, when I was skiing some lady started to shout at me in Polish, about the way I ski. I turned to her and said "Dzień dobry, jak to miło spotkać Polaka tak daleko od domu" (Hi, how nice it is to meet other Polish pearson that far from home). She turned bright red
I use to work at a hardware store and a man who was on the phone was trying to return something. No packaging. No receipt. I said we aren't able to return it. He had the guy on speaker and the phone was on the counter. He screamed in French "LOOKS LIKE IM GOING TO BE LATE BECAUSE THIS STUPID GIRL CANT DO A SIMPLE F***** RETURN!". I then smiled. And responded in French "this stupid girl can also speak fluent French. Would you like to tell him that too?" The man went red and over the phone I hear loud laughter. I never saw him again after he ran out
I have a similar story: I’m korean and I know english and korean. I learned Chinese for a few years for fun. One day I visited the Great Wall of China for vacation. While I was there, i yelled out “oppa” because oppa means brother in Korean. Then this Chinese boy next to me said: oppa? She’s korean. She’s cute Then I turned around and said thank you in Chinese. His expression was priceless
Randy Wilks Hi there, i can tell you that korean language has chinese origins. For example some of korean writing character are chinese one. But korean change a lot of thing from the chinese orinal character. They are still a little bit related like korean people also do the chinese new year
This happened to me the other day I was eating some food in town and I was watching an animation about WWII (out of habit I always only have one earphone in so I can hear if anyone is calling me and stuff) and so these two girls sit next to me and were speaking polish to eachother and I didn't care what they were talking about, then at some point they started talking about the animation I was watching, and started calling me an idiot and lots of other rude names in polish which they didn't know I understood, after a while I dead ass gave one of them a death stare because I got bored of the name calling, she was like "Omg she looked at me" and seemed a bit scared by it, and then I looked again and said "That's because I understand everything you're saying" in polish. Never heard silence like it, the smell of embarrassment filled the room. Fair to say that was the best day I had so far this year.
My sister and my friend were once in Greece on an island and there was this guy they were talking about and the conversation (Dutch) went like this; "You see that guy? He is sooo handsome!! I mean just look at that!" "I'm not sure, I can only see his back." "So What? His ass looks fine too!" We then realised he could understand us ... I already though I saw him laughing at us lmao
SO I used to work in a shoe store in a very Asian and Latino neighborhood, as a stockperson. I'm an incredibly white guy. Like, sunburnt by the full moon levels of pale. I walk in after being transferred to the new location, and had two of the sales reps do a once-over on me, before one of them turned to the other and said "Porque es el nuevo muy feo, ayayay. Oy Dios! Traeme guapos, por favor!" (Why is the new guy so ugly? Come on, God, send some handsome ones to me!) I just went over to the shelves, found the brand "Pikolinos" (A Spanish-made foreign shoe) and took out a shoe style that was titled "Bruja" (Witch). While they were watching me, I thought back to the weird trick where, if you hand something to someone, they will subconsciously take it without thinking about it. I walked over and handed the shoes to her, saying "Por tus feos pies. Perdoname, no tengo una cabeza nueva. Mis colondencias." ("For your ugly feet. I'm sorry, I don't have a new face for you. My condolences). Amidst her shock and confusion, she didn't look at the kind of shoe I'd given her until after I'd gone back into the backroom to begin organizing and familiarizing myself with the stock, but I heard her curse, and her friend cackling in the other room. I heard her friend say in Japanese, "Korehaomoshiroii! Omoshiroi ne!" (Oh this one's funny! That was hilarious, wasn't it?)(Omoshiroi could also mean 'interesting,' but contextually it makes sense to assume she meant 'funny' because of how much she was laughing.) My grasp of Japanese isn't great when it comes to speaking, but listening to people, I can understand a fair amount, so I just yelled back "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!" (Thank you for looking after me/It will be a pleasure to work with you), which only made her crack up some more. Fun place to work, after that. The first one apologized soon after, and the second one never let her live it down.
My story was a bit if an accident. I don't know but a few words in Chinese, but I went to a Chinese place and we had a waitress was talking to her coworkers in Chinese. Didn't understand a word of it, but when she brought out our food I responded "Xie Xie," which means "Thank you," in Mandarin. She turned beet red and we got a discount. Still have no clue what she said and I still go there pretty often.
Haha I was on a train in China once, and there were two families of two in the same train room as me. Like, overnight train. And they were talking about me, but not in a bad way. The parents were like "if you want to speak to her, you have to improve your English!" I'm just too shy and socially awkward to speak to anyone... So I just read a book. :(
I know this is isnt reddit but here is my story: I can speak korean so when i went to korea everyone was talking about me in my new school My classmate thought i was beautiful My teachers thought i was stupid And my "friend" wanted to stab me in the back with a knife It was fun when they found out that i knew korean
Wait... stab you? o__O Did they leave you alone after they found out about you understanding Korean? I hope you're okay! I mean, you're here writing this comment, but that sounds really scary.
Mine was actually a bit of an accident. Once, a guy came into our store and stood right next to the counter where I was working, telling his friend about a trip he had taken to Belgium and how he could speak fluent Dutch now. His buddy seemed pretty impressed by that and I didn't think anything of it at the time. When they were done picking out their item, they happen to choose my counter to ask a few questions about their purchase and I thought to myself: 'What a great opportunity to flex my Dutch skills.' I speak fluent Dutch, but rarely get to practice it because no one speaks it where I live (France). So, the guy comes over and I turn to the 'Dutch speaking guy' and I greet him and ask how I can help in Dutch. His face went completely pale when he realized that I was speaking Dutch and he couldn't make heads or tails of what I was saying. His friend, in the meantime, gave him this puzzled look, as if to say: 'Dude, why aren't you responding? You speak Dutch, right?' Turns out, he didn't speak Dutch at all and I just inadvertently called him out on his BS. They left in such a hurry, they didn't even complete their purchase.
I’m fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and English and one day in Spanish class my teacher thought i wasn’t paying any attention since I was doodling so he called up my name and asked me out of the blue((I think it was to through me off since it wasn’t a question about the topic but oh well)) “are you even listening? You and the class can nearly speak a proper sentence in Spanish and you’re not paying attention??” I literally heard sounds of heads and chairs screeching to face me as I was asked the question. ((No one even knew what he asked since no one speaks it in my class)) I didn’t even look back before answering back in Spanish. “I am listening. I’m just choosing not to look. I already know what I need to know. This is baby stuff.” And the look of the kids faces and the the teachers were amazing. In the end me and the teacher got along great and turns out he also majored in math so he helped me with my math homework a lot. Great teacher.
I had a classmate do something like that in middle school Spanish, not following or participating in class because he was fluent. And when she found out, our native speaking teacher brought in advanced Spanish materials and changed the kids course materials (with his parents approval). He had opted for Spanish over German or French because he was fluent and wanted an easy grade (I think he was in a few honors classes too, so an easy class would have taken some stress off). Poor guy ended up being her her go to for demonstrations and such too.
@@foxb6756 my teacher was scolding us for not paying attention in English class, then she told us a true story. Apparently, a few years ago in my school, there was this boy who was so eloquent and fluent in English that his standard was years better than his classmates and therefore English period was basically his playtime because he didn't have to listen It made my whole class jealous of the boy, being able to not pay attention yet scoring perfect scores.
If anyone cares it (SJ; Statens Järnvägar) means The State's Railroads. SJ are longer distance trains within Sweden while anything that ends in trafik/lokaltrafik is regional.
so im chinese but born in america. my first language was mandarin but then i started learning shanghainese since my family was from shanghai, then english became my 3rd language. Once i started elementrary school i ended up speaking more eng and shanghainese with my family, and soon forgot mandarin. i can still understand it however but im uncomfortable speaking it skskkdkd. anyway, i was in china and speaking english to my mom- this chinese mom told her son in chinese “yOU SEE THAT GIRL STUDY VERY HARD SO SHE CAN SPEAK ENGLISH WELL YOU NEED TO STUDY ENGLISH HARDER OK-“
Yeyyy, found an army ;) (i know this is random, but i gotta do it heheheheh.....) edit: Lol, i was born in Indonesia but some of my family speaks chinese too. So i can understand them a little bit but uncomfortable speaking them too.....
I was reading an info sign and this guy comes up to me and says "you need to know English to read that" and I was like dude if I didn't know English why would I be reading this 🤦
In French class, a guy walked to the guy sitting in front of me and asked him if he liked me (or something similar) in Chinese. I understood him and said to him ‘ you know I can understand Chinese, right?’ in Chinese and his reaction was amazing.
"We are Americans now" *+100 DARK AND MYSTERIOUS POINTS* Edit: WHAAAAAA- The most likes I've ever gotten before was 6, oh my gosh thank you! Edit edit: The hecc- thank you so much guys! ^w^
@Hermit Crabbe If you know how it was spelled in the video (where it was actually finacé, so I guess not?) then why is your first reaction to doubt him and not the text-to-speech bot?
Not really a multilingual experience, because it was in my native tongue, but it's something similar. Last year I went to Japan as part of a study program, one of the activities to learn more about Japan was visiting some shrines in Kyoto, Fushimi Inari Taisha being one of them, they gave us one hour to explore the shrine and go to the top of the mountain if we wanted to. And so I did, and after that I was kinda in a hurry to get down because I had like 20 minutes left. But I wasn't sure I was on the right road, you see, there are two roads that go to the summit, but it can get kinda confusing, so when I took the road I didn't come from, I felt as if I was going the wrong way, so I stopped every now and then to check Google Maps and make sure I was actually getting closer to the entrance. While doing this, I went past two Spanish girls a couple times, because they'd catch up with me while I was looking at my phone. And after the third time, I heard one of them loudly say (in spanish) something along the lines of "what is wrong with this fucking creep, he keeps stopping and then walking past us, he's going to try to do something to us". I'm bolivian, and we speak spanish here, so I understood everything. I decided to stop one more time and pretend I checked my phone again. And when they got close, I asked them in perfect Spanish if they knew if I was taking the right road to get to the main shrine at the entrance. The one who was talking shit went red, like, crimson red and didn't even answer. Her friend, laughed at her, and told her it was karma, she then said that it was indeed the right way. I thanked them and told them I was sorry if I made them uncomfortable, that I was just a bit lost. Which prompted another burst of laughter from the girl at her friend while she covered her face with her hands. It felt pretty good.
There's a reason girls get scared when a guy acts like that. It happens too often to not be cautious. As long as you cleared it up it's fine. Just know she wasn't really an "ass" for being cautious when a guy following a female often times makes the female scared due to personal experience. I know I've been followed an annoyingly high amount and each time I have to call someone on my phone or act like I know someone else on the street and they leave immediately. It's not fun
I'm from a small island; about 341 thousand people can speak our language, me and my family were on the elevator on the eifel tower, and there was another family making fun of us in that language, ending in a "don't worry, they can't understand us" my dad proceeded to ask me what time it is in that language. the elevator was quite for the whole time edit: the language is called papiamentu
Lmao 'cos of those kind of people I feel like I'm the only non-native English speaker who's actually pretty confident in their English skills and never apologizes for possible mistakes.
For context: My dad is Greek and my mom is Dutch. I have been raised multilingual. One day I was working in our family business in Greece, at a touristic island. A Dutch couple walked into the shop. I greeted them in English as I normally do to customers, asked them if they needed any help, and then let them look around undisturbed. They start having a conversation about mundane everyday couple stuff in Dutch, and I don't intervene because I have no reason to do so. Then the woman goes into the changing room to try on some clothes. As she walks out wearing a dress, her partner loudly says "This dress makes your titties look juicy" in Dutch, and I immediately make up my mind; I'm not going to let them know I can understand them anytime soon. They asked me things about the prices and the materials, and I replied in English. The inappropriate Dutch comments continued, the poor guy had no IDEA I could understand him. Long story short, they come up with the stuff they want to buy, and hand it over to me to wrap. "That'll be 62 €" I tell them in Dutch with a bright smile. The clothes gave us good money, but the guy's face when he realized I understood _every word of what he said_ about his partner's boobs, was priceless.
This isn't that good but once I was in a park and some girls were speaking Lithuanian, making fun of me and my brother. I knew I was gonna say something but I had to wait for the right moment. One of the girls said something along the lines of "It's so good that he can't understand us" and I said (in Lithuanian) "Yes, very good." They just walked out the park in shame
@@Gamesfan34260 Personally feel like his original response is better. Responding as if he's talking about himself lol "Oh yes, very good that he can't understand you"
I know a similar story. Not mine but i don't care. I'm from Poland but i live in Germany together with my mom. Her coworker wich is also from Poland told us the story. She was driving a bus. It was pretty empty. Few steps away from her was a bunch of teenagers speaking Polish, and telling each other what kind of sex they like, whom did they fucked recently and stuff like this. My mom's coworker just listened to it until they were on her a bus stop where she hat to go out of the bus. She turned to this group and sayed (in Polish) "Hey you there! Next time please don't talk obout shit like this in public. You never know if someone understands your language". All of them turned red and were silent. And actually since i heard this story, I'm careful about what i am saying in public. Cuz u never know.
I’m American (I know French, Portuguese, and a little Spanish) and I can’t *WAITTT* for someone to assume I can’t speak their lang bcuz I’m an English speaker. I’m waitingggg for the occasion to arise . Please God, Please
Com BR vai ser difícil. Nós só falamos mal de europeus quanfo estamos no país dos mesmos. Portugueses são mais chatos e concerteza vão falar mal de você (na verdade eles vão falar na sua língua msm kkkkk)
I live in the US and basically just speak English, but I was taking ASL (American Sign Language) classes when I was in high school, but the classes where at the community college. I don't know if this truely counts, but I think it does. After the first two years of class, my teacher started a special summer class that you got an A just for showing up. It was a lot cheaper because it was basically just the class going into public places together and only being allowed to sign. Immersion you know. So the teacher picked certain places based off knowing the staff could talk to us. Anyways, we all went out to lunch for one class, sat around one of the round tables and generally had a good time. Lots of signing and laughing, but nothing had happened that showed we could hear. The table next to us noticed and we heard one of the ladies speak up first. Said something along the lines of, "oh aren't they cute, to be their stupid." One of her friends seemed to try to point out you shouldn't say those things she just pointed out that "they're all signing, they must be deaf so I can say whatever I want." And her friends seemed comfortable to join in under the assumption we couldn't hear. We all tried to ignore the women, despite the horrible things they said. And the fact they where getting louder about it too. Things like, "retards like that shouldn't be allowed in public" "if I had a child like that I'd get rid of it immediately", etc. It was getting pretty impossible to enjoy ourselves at this point, and then one of them said, "the government should make it illegal for them to breed, we don't need any more." And that was the last straw for my teacher, (the rest of us where in a college class and worried if we said anything we'd get our grade docked. Because the whole point of the class was to not talk.) She just turned her head around to them and said, "hey, everyone at this table can hear perfectly fine and has understood everything you've said. Maybe it's time to shut up?" Watching all the colour fade out of those ladies faces was beautiful.
How is someone so fucking stupid to think that deaf people can't be intelligent? There's a million reasons someone could be deaf, including physical damage to the ears which would definitely have no bearing on mental capacity. It's that woman that shouldn't breed, she'll teach her kid to be dumb as bricks and to be bigoted.
ok so i'm ethnically chinese but was born and raised in malaysia. they teach chinese, english and malay in my school. besides that i have korean and japanese cousins that i'm close with, so i know basic korean and japanese too. i guess i look very asian cause every time i come across a foreigner they assume i only speak chinese. my story is pretty similar to one of the stories in the video. basically i was out with a group of friends and we were having lunch together. the people at the table across from us were speaking about my friends highly inappropriately in english. one of the girls said that they would f*ck my guy friend. another guy said the same of one my girl friends. all of them didn't realise that all of us were fluent english speakers. after about a minute, i started to casually speak in english to my friends. the girl turned stopped but the guy just switched to japanese, not realizing i could still understand him. so i started speaking japanese, giving the guy across from me the stink eye. this is basically what i said in japanese: "i wonder how many more languages they'll assume we can't understand." that did the trick, and they finally shut up. another, more pleasant story is when i was working part time at a shop my aunt owns. a pair of siblings come in, speaking korean. while i was preparing their order, the brother told his sister that he thought i was cute. i continued to pretend that i didn't understand them until i finished their order. i then proceeded to say in korean: "here's your order. thank you for coming and i hope you enjoy." the brother turned beet red and his sister burst out laughing. it was great.
I know some Korean and I've tried learning Japanese and I think Korean is easier, my native language is tough (and I can barely speak it but I can understand it very well) and here I am tryna learn other languages
here’s my story even though nobody asked lol: i know english and korean, i studied it for 3 years but i don’t use it much. so when i go to central london which is about 20/30 mins away from where i live, and there are normally a lot of asian tourists (from what i see) and when i went to cross the road, there were a group of korean teenagers my age talking about me and how cute they thought i was. i then thought to myself if i should leave them and see what else they will say. they then carried on talking about who will get to talk to me first and things like that. (i know this sounds like a sort of story you would find in a fan fiction or something, but i find it as crazy as you do) . they follow me down the road and carry on talking in korean who’s going to make the first move. i simply turn around and say to them (something along the lines of): “i find your compliments very flattering, thank you for being so sweet. i wouldn’t mind if any of you two made a move.” and the look of shock on their faces was priceless. we actually ended up going the same way and i talked to them for a while and we still stay in contact. so jaebeom and taesung if ur out there love y’all!
I am Korean and I had been learning Chinese (specifically, Mandarin) since I was twelve (not constantly though, actually I hadn't been practicing in for 2 years because I had to prepare myself for college). Few years ago, I went to a restaurant in Seoul with my family and there were Chinese-Koreans (descendants of Korean immigrants moved in China hundreds of years ago, which makes most of them speak both Chinese and Korean fluently) serving at the table. I really didn't talk for most of the time because I was so busy enjoying the food, so one of those ladies came to me and asked (in Chinese) if I can't speak Korean. Realizing what was going on, I answered back in Chinese that I am Korean, but I totally understood what you were saying because I can speak the language. Immediately the lady got so excited, saying that she finally found someone who could speak her first language because she was much comfortable speaking Chinese. Then she brought a younger waitress to us and introduced her, and it was turned out to be that the new waitress was the lady's daughter who moved together to Korea with her. I also found out that the younger waitress goes to a college in China, and she comes back to Korea for every vacation to stay with her family. Most of the conversation went in Chinese, it was very entertaining talking to these two women (although the lady's daughter didn't talk very much), and it felt like we suddenly became close friends. I even got a free drink for the whole table, which I really appreciated. I still wonder if the lady (and her daughter) still works in that restaurant, so I could say hello to them when I go back to Korea.
I have a good one: a French friend of mine, who studies chinese, goes on a trip to China for her studies. Once there, she has to take a night train to make a really long journey. Her group of friends shares a compartment with a chinese guy who is sleeping. They comment in French on the guy saying he smelled bad, looked weird, that he might be doing strange things when he's home alone, etc. Turns out the guy was a French teacher at the University of Beijing and could speak and understand French like a native speaker.
I have one. So I was born in Nepal but moved away when I was 4. I used to speak Nepali fluently but forgot most of it. I went on a trip to Nepal with my grandparents and they didn't realise that I was relearning Nepali and they didn't realise that I'd actually learned a fair amount. I saw my gran talking to another lady so I decided to see how much of their conversation I could understand. I listened in a bit and the conversation was MY GRAN telling the other lady about how fat I'd become. Thanks for the confidence boost gran! 😂
The moral of the story is to assume everyone speaks every language.
Good one but I think a more appropriate moral is don't talk shit about people
@@nayafauzia476 true dat
Arxos yes i agree
Just be fuckin nice to people
They can even speak alien
*_FUGGIN ALIEN_*
"We are Americans right now"
- Hides the vodka under the table and pulls out a XXL pizza
gonzalo060375 BRO THATS TOTALLY WRONG... XXL PIZZA IS WAY TO SMALL FOR AMERICANS
don't forget that big gulp cup
Vodka?!!! Nah...there isnt any vodka around here..hehehe...are you crazy?
Straight terrible as an American you made my day lol thanks for that comment
gonzalo060375 hides the Makarov and gets pulls out a 1911***
You: fiancé
Me, an intellectual: finnakay
Lxvvie fInAKaY
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Dang it I thought of this to late
You better stop before I start pronouncing the p in raspberry
Fuck the French. We don't need their fancy words.
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Two years ago, I was visiting my aunt in France. I was in this cafe and next to my table there were two guys and one of them was continuously glancing at me and quickly looking away. They, completely unaware that I'm pretty good at French, were loudly talking about something along the lines of "that girl is pretty cute" "just go talk to her already." After a couple minutes, which felt like hours, he finally came up to me and started talking in english. I replied in French and his face went completely red and his friend bursted out laughing. We've been together ever since in a long distance relationship. I'll be seeing him again in a few days and I couldn't be anymore happier💕
Nimisha Narayan this story actually made my day, these kind of stuff do happen in real life ? Not only in movies ?
@Nimisha Narayan hey there! Fellow Indian 😊 This was such a cute story!! Hope you get to see him soon 💕
Aww that’s so cute
awww
That's so cute omg
I cursed a guy out in 3 languages, he understood every word of it
Something like "Piç, nique ta mere, Hurensohn!"? (turkish, french, german) Happens to me too ... sometimes ... actually never, I just happen to know these.
Oof
Redfox [赤い きつね] i remember that quick
I usually just go "Scheiße! Goblok banget ini puta madre"
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"we are americans now"
*hides AK47 and starts telling democracy jokes*
@@timofejkazakov6288 lmao . so america like
@1000 subs without a video take a look at ur name
"We are Americans now"
*stops squatting and sits like a normal person*
hamdi ezio he sweats because he has not drunk vodka for 0.0000001 seconds
"We are Americans now."
Why do you hide your weapon then? :)
"So I got off the train without paying a fine or anything because I pretended not to know Swedish."
*_Sneak 100_*
Illusion 100
and
Mission passed + respect
I actually did that in Germany once, I was with a friend and we were about 18, we had the wrong ticket for reasons I don't remember and pretended we didn't speak anything besides Spanish, just kept insistently repeating the name of the place we were going with the worst pronunciation possible and the ticket guy was finally like "fuck it, they really don't understand at all". We both speak perfect German and English, I honestly cannot justify our actions at all.
@Carla Hallabrin, Carla, Du böses Mädchen, es sei Dir verziehen! Grüsse.
Illusion 100
XCrisHD More like *Speech 100*
Me: downloads duolingo
It’s a small price to pay for being hilarious
Facts
uhhhh actually no, do you know what that demon owl does to you if you skip a lesson?
@@justinebajada9076 freeze streak works Everytime like a charm
@@justinebajada9076 Considering you can reduce your goal to the minimum and then achieve it in a pinch its not hard to keep your streak going.
Madhouow Gaming me as well
Chechen gang walks in
*sweat intensifies*
Russian family: Howdy y’all diddly do Yankee Doodle dee
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In finland:
Some random teenagers: "Look at the gay swedes"
Us: "We speak finnish"
DESTRUCTION 100
You Finished them
@@DoselH finnished*
did they hit u with a vitun homo
@@dnsoulx kakka pissa pillu kikkeli :Dddd
(Does sign language count? Ha ha) Once, I was at a public cafe and was eating peacefully when I looked up and saw a deaf woman and what I assumed to be her friend/interpretor signing something to each other while one tried to discreetly point at me. She signed: "That woman. I like her dress." Or something similar. I was with my mother, but my mom did not know ASL. As we were leaving, I stopped by their table (they watched us as we passed) and signed: "Thank you. That was nice of you to say." She looked a little taken aback but smiled and signed : "you're welcome." As we left, I caught her friend signing: "well then." To her. I still have that dress.
That is actually a pretty cute story
Aww that’s a cute story
Awwww that's so sweet
Awwww 🥰💕
that’s so wholesome omg
So I’m American but i was born and raised in Ghana, most of the people in my school think i don’t speak any of the local languages but I’m actually really fluent in twi and Fante.
In the sixth grade, the girl sitting behind me would gossip and insult me in twi then she would compliment me in English thinking i did not understand her twi,one day when she and her goons were laughing at my dark skin saying that i did not look any thing like an American. I turned slowly and replied her in twi saying black is beauty.
The look on her face was priceless
Wow, I did not know I had this many likes
That is literally what happens to all of us who move to ghana😂😂
An American as in a black American?
@@unrepentantjaegerist7236 yeah she has a Ghanaian name. I would assume she's black. Also, most people around here dont expect non citizens to know the local languages, as they arent spoken outside the country much
@@andrewokyere1039 I'm talking about her ethnicity not her race. An afro American and an African are not the same thing.
@@unrepentantjaegerist7236 ohhhhh thats what you mean. My bad man. Yh african american then😅
I'm a robot learning English, which is quite different from my native binary code. One time, while I was working on a narration project, I pronounced 'Fiancé' as 'Finna K'. Very embarrassing!
I'm glad you're learning English. It is not an easy language. Get a native speaker to help with your programming. Best wishes.
I think I was there for that.* Please, keep learning our difficult language. And fianke is from French. *I was!
😁
Code
Whoever you are.
Bless you 😂🤣
My dad and I were on holiday in Rome and waiting in line for a Colosseum tour. We were speaking Finnish with each other, when these two Norwegian boys start mocking and talking shit about us in Norwegian. Little did they know my dad is fluent in Norwegian. He leaned towards the boys and whispered (in Norwegian of course) something along the lines of: ”You never know what languages people can actually speak.”
sonkkuponkkujee i love that
You got an awesome father
Tää on jotain niin mahtavaa 10/10 sass isä
I apologize on behalf of Norway:(
How did they react to that? Lmao! Can just imagine the shock on their faces and how utterly embarrassed they must have felt. Serves them right for talking shit. lol
You gave me the worst motivation to continue learning Spanish.
This is exactly why I'm learning Spanish 😂
A Kam Now I have a reason to study harder at learning Japanese
A Kam
This comment deserves more likes 😂
Insfires man!!
Omg ARMY everywhere 😂
Good part in speaking portuguese is that you understand a lot of spanish so I don't know shit about spanish, but we still can understand some of what they say.
so i'm vietnamese but i studied mandarin in school, so i'm pretty fluent. so one time my mom and i went to china on a trip together. we went to a market, and these two college-ish girls stopped walking and began to have a conversation about me in the language:
girl 1: "her hair is so pretty."
girl 2: "ah, but she's a foreigner..."
pretending i didn't understand, i glanced at them for half a second and continued walking with my mom. later on, i bumped into them again and they noticed me. again.
girl 1: "it's that foreigner girl again. i wonder what hair products she uses?"
girl 2: "stop thinking about it. she's a foreigner."
i noticed that girl 1 seemed to admire my hair, but girl 2 seemed to dislike me for my foreign appearance. since we were in really close proximity to each other, i shared to the girls my hair routine as well as the products i use, in the language of course.
girl 2 was super embarrassed. both of them exited the store super quickly and the last thing i saw was girl 1 laughing so hard at her friend.
that made my day. :D
nice to know there are also positive people in the world who won't talk shit even if they think you can't understand xD
I wanna know your hair routine
Me too^^^
Why do Chinese people hate foreigners lol
I want those hair products
My boyfriend pretends not to speak english when he doesnt want to talk to a stranger and busts out thai and the "i no speak english"
Fen Schragel-Enriquez I live in South America but I’m European, so my mother tongue isn’t either English or Spanish but I’m fluent in both, so I get to pull this aaaaall the time here. 😂 When someone is a bit intrusive trying to sell me someone on the street? No hablo español (in the worst accent possible). And if they change to English I just go “förlåt, jag kan inte prata engelska” and smile sheepishly. I can almost always get out of any situation by just pretending I don’t speak the language 😂 It’s great!
He could've said I am sorry I do not speak english in english for giggles lol
I always do that the it's easier.
especially when strangers ask for directions to somewhere. (I am living in a city for 10 years and I still don't know 60% of it....ik) and I speak a different languages
Can relate with the salespeople on any mall :'). I either act as if I couldn't speak spanish or I just pretend that I didn't hear them :v
ME
These stories make me want to learn another language.😂
Marija _ i no right
Well get duolingo then. Stop wanting and start doing
@@afoolsbabybear2266 duolingo isn't a good way to start a language bruh
Oh no, if you do get duolingo, dont miss a lesson
or else its coming for u
I can’t decide what language I should learn. I want to learn German, Russian, and Arabic. Arabic just for memes.
I had a cashier cuss me out in Arabic once. I thought he was going to pass out when I replied in Arabic. Another time I had asked a waitress about mushrooms in a dish. I have an allergy so I was persistent but not rude in my inquiry. She brought my meal out and walked away while saying “see how you like your allergic reaction, that’s what you get” in Mandarin. I confronted her and the manager and she played innocent until I repeated my argument in Mandarin. I live in the south and have a country ass accent so nobody expects me to be able to speak intelligible English, much less Arabic or Mandarin.
Go on please... I want to hear the rest of that story.
Porg Hunter woah wtf that bitch was trying to kill you ksksksks
I hope you sued. But out of curiosity how come you speak Arabic and mandarin it’s a unique combo, do you use both where you’re from ?
Languages have been the only thing I’ve ever been good at. I learned Arabic because there was a somewhat large Middle Eastern population where I lived. It mostly friends in that community that taught me. I majored in Mandarin in college with minors in Russian and American Sign Language
Porg Hunter that’s really cool :)
For anyone wondering
_Tack och förlåt_ means *thanks and sorry*
9:50
Thanks!!
@1000 subs without a video What you just said translates into "Swedish speaker there you on" what is that supposed to mean?
*Takk og beklager!*
@@nadafangirl är du norsk?
Signe Blomberg
ja, jeg fra Bergen.
I'm german and there was a russian kid in my class. The teacher asked him in german:"Do you speak german?/Do you understand me?" (I can't remember which one it was) and the russian kid replied in german:"No I don't." The whole class burst out laughing
Es scheinen sehr viele Russen in Schulen in Deutschland zu geben, nicht wahr? Ich finde es immer voll witzig, da ein Kind etwas in Russisch schreien kann und oft versteht es jemand anderes. Aber anscheinend gibt es fast gar keine Spanier (jedenfalls habe ich noch nie einen Spanier in Deutschland gesehen) und daher macht es Spass, Spanisch anzuwenden, da ich es momentan lerne. Ich warte nur noch auf den Tag, an dem ich endlich jemanden finde, der auch Spanisch kann. Es wuerde bestimmt witzig sein :)
@@tictacmaniac7415 translate
That's a badass Russian kid.
TicTacManiac sorry dude I don’t speak angry.
Get it? Because the joke is that the German language sounds angry when spoken! It is still funny even after I explain the joke.
And then everybody clapped, the end.
wow how there are many russians
People can be so unkind. You should always speak about someone as if they can understand you. There's no reason to treat people so poorly.
Common sense you'd think, but people are jerks.
@@SadDayys Quite a pessimistic way to think about it.
@@Janfon1 It's the truth
@@Janfon1 I both agree and disagree at the same time. I mean to be honest, they're not entirely wrong. There aren't a whole lot of good people in the world and it's an unfortunate fact that you'd have to come to terms with. There's really no good way to look at it and to say it's pessimistic and dismiss just because it's negative means that you could potentially miss out on the truth however negative it may be.
I disagree in a way too as I think more good people are turning up everyday. That's just my opinion on the matter though. That is all!
@@skyjackal3127 Pessimism takes away from the fun one could have in life. Ignorance is bliss, avoid depression as much as possible.
I'm Swedish and hearing the text-to-speech voice read the train Company SJ as "Society of Jesus" is so hilariously fitting, since they're known for regularly being off-schedule, you might as well actually be waiting for the second coming
lmfao underrated comment
I laughed.
The holiness of the public services? That's an abusable statement.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Oh so they're just like DB?
you're procrastinating rn.
Can you read my mind?
b e r t fuck you
i feel attacked
Bro
goddamn, let me be >:(
Guy wants to simplify poker rules and then goes on to use poker related terms
sara lo RIght! Like. Knowing 8’s > 7’s was not the part he needed to explain lol
Hahaha I thought the same thing 😂
_"Honey, honey, this Lebanese guy went all in with pocket 7s. But they forgot one thing: I had pocket 8s, baby!"_
Ty!😂
8:44 "bought my ticket with the company Society of Jesus"
Made my laugh hardest of all those vids
David A sounds like a cult
@Osoro Shidesu: Yes. Society of Jesus are more commonly known as the Jesuits. They are the most deadly and evil of all cults. They kill, create false artifacts, promote lies, abduct children, perform human sacfrices, worship Lucifer... and all while fronting as Christians. They have agents all over the world.
@@KJKP LOL dude what the hell? I suggest you get to know a Jesuit sometime.
@EC Kuhl, For a start, research the PiltDown Man fake fossil, it was used to support Darwinian evolution, which undercut biblical credibility in the minds of those with nonexistent or minimal relationship with my Father in Heaven.
A Jesuit named Pierre de Chardin created it.
After that, research the origin of Communism. Karl Marx? Nope. Marx was the front man for Fredrick Engles, a Jesuit.
Are there Jesuits who are not top level saboteurs and assassins? Perhaps. Then again, maybe the Jesuit you think you know has you deceived... along with the rest of the world.
In a recent bond movie, Bond, in the opening scene, mentions a secret cabal so powerful that nobody even knows they exist. The film hints at who they are when the chase scene ends with a fight inside a Catholic Church.
one time i sat next to a Korean girl at school, i didn't know she was Korean. she was really cute so my bisexual ass decides to whisper "oh my god, she's so pretty" to myself in Korean. she turned to me and said, in Korean, "thanks, you're cute too." i died a little bit on the inside
edit: to everyone saying i shouldve asked her out, she's back home in Korea now.
Living Trashbag That was the perfect opportunity to ask her out! Why would you feel ashamed over saying that? Don’t be! You didn’t insult her and you weren’t creepy either.
@@LinneAzalea i was so embarrassed
ASK HER OUT
I died reading it, I felt the pain from my own experiences and you should ask her out
Also is she 언니? Because this girl asked me out in korean ( google translate version ) but she called me 언니 so I found it super cute. ( btw pansexual over here) 누나 has always been weird if I’m dating a guy, for some reason I’m cool if it’s a girl but not a guy??? I don’t why I’m telling you these things but here it is anyway
So I don't look very german (which I am) and speak English with a somewhat british accent.
One time during summer a friend of mine and I were riding the train, chitchating in English, when this group of guys (around the same age as us) walks in and takes the seats next to us. They start comparing us and calling dibs (wtf). Then one of them asks my friend (who also speaks german) in broken english if she'd like to have a drink with him some time and if he can have her number. Obviously, she declines. Another guy then 'apologizes' for his friend and proceeds to ask me the same question. In perfectly clear german and picking up their conversation I say 'Sorry, I don't date people who brag about screwing a girl before she even gets the chance to turn him down.'
The 2 Minute ride to the next stop (where they surprisingly left) is something I'll never forget 😂
@Buttrape Bill that's not Germany that's the Nordic countries and there's nothing wrong with being blond and blue-eyed?
@Lord Farquaad If u think about it, basically, NO ONE can "look" German, Italian, Indian, etc. So, that person only meant "look german" as in "the stereotype people have about germans' appearance".
Example:
"Stereotypers" think that all Asians have monolids. Meanwhile, a majority of Indians don't have monolids.
India has the 2nd highest population, which (in this topic) means, "asian = only the monolid people" is a stereotype that can be only afforded by extremely ignorant people.
[This reminds me of another stereotype that "Indians aren't Asians". So, if anyone thought that, please just google India's location on the world map].
I speak Russian at home with my family. I remember coming into work one day (waitress) and getting a table of Russian women. The entire time they were talking shit and every time I would come around they had something mean to say. So when they had paid their bill and were about to leave, I decided to say 'Bye thanks for coming!" in Russian. Their faces dropped lol. They never came back.
Wow
😂
👍🏻
@Raylon Bender Rodriguez good riddance to bad rubbish
Raylon Bender Rodriguez As if she would give a shit? They were shitty customers anyway, so losing them is like losing a penny.
I live in Puerto Rico and speak both English and Spanish. My English is flawless and most other Puerto Ricans call me "gringo" cause of it lol. Anyways a few years ago an old lady from the states (who doesn't speak Spanish) moved into a house next to my grandma's in the rural mountains of PR. Nobody in those mountains know English. But the old lady wanted to make friends and would often try to talk to her new neighbors and my grandma... Sadly the language barrier made this impossible. But they were all on good terms and helped each other with their crops regardless. One day I went to visit my grandma and she told me to say hello to the "gringa" in English and also to translate on both sides. So we went over to her house and I saw funniest thing. She had other neighbors over helping her with crops and she was just talking non-stop in English to em about random topics and they had such a massive (._.) face. Anyways so she notices us approaching and greets us in English and my grandma greets her in Spanish. Then I just say "Howdy miss! How's the mountains of Puerto Rico treating ya?" Her eyes just bulge out and she was excited to be able to speak English and actually be understood haha. Anyways the other neighbors took the opportunity and used me to translate to her that they all wanted to be friends and all that. She was very happy.
She passed away a few months ago. A sad loss.
My condolences.
Glad this was a positive story where no one was caught talking badly abt someone
She was really precious in glad she had a happy ending
Such a lovely story
I'm kind of upset at how lovely this story was, only to end on such a sad note :(
Well at least you made someone VERY happy before they passed :)
Once I was at IKEA with my dad and two Italian people were in the lift. They didn't know that we can understand Italian and she said to the guy "Why can't thay take the stairs or wait for the next lift? I don't want to share this lift.". My dad said in Italian "It's only us two and we don't bite." (that makes more sence in Italian). Their faces were hilarious.😂
How does that not make sense ? Lol. It needs to make no further sense. It makes perfect sense. Perfeto
@@mjade1673 maybe it's a wordplay in Italian. ...
@Marco Guerini I wish we learned something like this in school😅
Yup!!! It is a typical wordplay! Italian people use often and a lot of such ironical sentences!!!
@@Hildegarden It's a typical phrase in German too. "Wir beißen nicht"
"Her face turned red"
"She looked in shock"
"They all started laughing"
Horrid weeb
All of these horror stories are making me realize that multilingual people probably talk about me on a regular basis, and I don't understand them.
Perhaps you are subconsciously flattering yourself.
@@DisturbedVette Me? Lol, I was just pointing out that if people were to talk negatively about me, I would not understand.
they are just insecure petty and two faced people who would not even dare saying that to your face so who cares really.
Multilingualism comes with this great perk.
It's not very healthy to worry about what people think about you. But I can't stop you.
I'm latina and speak Spanish but I don't ''look latina''
So one time I went to the movies with my nephew who's was like 5 or something and we both went up to get drinks but the lady at the register seemed a bit mad.
I was ordering the drinks when my nephew accidentally dropped something that was on the counter and the lady said in Spanish, ''These kids have no sense of decency''
I just keep talking in English until she finally gave us our drinks I thanked her and said in Spanish,'' Before you talk about other people's decency make sure yourself have some.'' And then just left.
Buurn! Noice.
Los latinos no lucimos de cierta manera, lo que pasa es que en Estados Unidos asumen que todos somos de una sola etnia, en mi país(Uruguay) por ejemplo somos descendientes de españoles, italianos y otras etnias provenientes de Europa, lo mismo pasa en Argentina, yo luzco más eslava que otra cosa(mi abuela paterna es hija de polacos y mi madre es nieta de españoles), si llegara a ir a los Estados Unidos el idioma que menos pensarían que hablo es español porque así de asumidas tienen ciertas cosas con respecto a Latinoamérica
Yuta's healing smile 6104 Si es verdad, no soy latina pero vivo en colombia desde unos años. Soy mona y blanca con ojos azules, pero nadie piensa que no soy colombiana si me quedo callada (jajaja a veces cuando digo algo en español si entienden que soy extranjera, no tengo un acento terrible, pero tampoco es colombiano). Tengo amigos colombianos más blancos y con pelo más mono que yo. Y colombia no es famoso por eso, más otros países aquí en America Latina en donde hay mucho más blancos y monos.
@MaríadeNeira Qué significa monos? Solo se me ocurre el animal lo que pasa
I love these roasts
It's not exactly a multilingual story, but I'm Romanian and my name sounds kind of Spanish. In high school, my Spanish teachers kept thinking I was Spanish (from Spain) and talking to me in Spanish in the hallway. I just stood there and nodded and said "si" whenever they paused, but had no clue what they were saying hahahaha
lmao
As a Romanian named Raul i relate so much to this xD
Si xD
Very dangerous, not bad.
It's interesting, I'm Mexican and I have heard a lot of strange names in Spanish but I've never met someone called Alina
My Japanese friend’s mom called me fat in Japanese, not realizing that I could speak it.
Min suga genius jjang jjang man boom boom
Welcome to Latin America where people will call you fat knowing damn well you speak Spanish 😂
tiki taka ph I never said it wasn’t Japanese, just that it’s extremely common here in Latin America as well
I would have said to the friend in front of the mom "You might want to tell your mom that I speak Japanese."
@@Arisdoesvideos BANGTAN! ANYOUNG HASEYO BANGTAN SONYOENDAN!
Okay so I've been studying Korean for about 2 years now and I have to say that I am relatively good (at least with basic conversation, pronunciation, and grammar). I was at Starbucks and a few ladies sitting there commented about how ugly my clothes were. While my mom was paying for my drink, I tapped on of their shoulders and said "You spilled coffee on your shirt" in Korean. They all looked at me with wide eyes and I gotta tell you, that was probably the best thing I've done in my 15 years of living.
Edit: the most likes and replies I've ever gotten jeezus
I'm learning Korean right now!! It seems like such a pretty language, and I can even guess we're the same age. ;o u go gurl
@@sublunarra Ayeeee , good luck learning Korean :)))
@@nameless7047
@@sublunarra How did you know she was a girl tho?
Sammeeeee, I'm also learning it right now and it's cool to see what I can actually kinda understand now👌
"With the company *Society of Jesus* "
WHAT
I thought heard it wrong the first time, went to rewind nope Society of Jesus LOL
They're called Jesuits.
You are fucking dumb. The robot voice just reads SJ as that.
@@spinnis you don't say
@@spinnis no u
8:45
SJ = "Society of Jesus"
Hahaha, probably one of the least christian companies you could find.
Top kek fam!
ROFL. Also: uni-dentifiable. XD
tack och förlåt
Hahah, why would he type that? Xdd he knew it was wrong
@Carl Kinnunen (elev) SJ eller SL? (SJ = tåg)
*Chechen walks in*
Russian family: *pretends to tell story in country accent* MAN, I JUST GOT THESE BRAND NEW BOOOTS. THESE HERE ARE SNAKE SKIN. ILL TELL YA WHAY, YOU SHOULD SEE MY TRUCK. I GOT ER LINNED UP ALL NICE AND PERTY WITH SOME GATOR SKIN. HOW’BOUT WE GO CRACK A COLD ONE, PARTNER.
Your comment had me dying.😂
i can confirm this how us Americans interact with eachother yes
@@simplyhonest4316 Holy shit fucking god dammit, this is the first time a comment made me laugh, my mind was reading this with an accent holy shit im dying right noww
@@demonatrixe6203 same
Don’t you forget the moonshine now
I am a college student (major:liberal arts Japanese). While heading to class these two Japanese boys are talking and happen to be going the same way as me. I heard one of them talking about my book bag (it was legend of zelda). Apparently he thought it looked really cool and wanted to ask where I got it, but was afraid to use English. I turned around and responded in Japanese, both boys were shocked. They complemented my Japanese and we spoke for a few minutes. After they found out I study the language they wished me luck and told me to do my best.
That's very wholesome, good luck on improving your language
Fallen Angel r/thathappened
Fallen Angel and then everyone clapped
Aww what a cute story!
Ganbatte ne :)!
I'm whiter than the average white person, but I'm completely Mexican.
I remember when I asked the price of an item and this Mexican guy told me in English "I'll go check". He then talked to his other Mexican friend and the first guy said in Spanish "what price should I tell him?". The other guy then said, "charge him like $40" (it's supposed to cost $20). He then came back and told me it would cost $40. I then replied in Spanish and said "make it $15 and I might just come back".
His face went red instantly, and so did the other Mexican guy. It was an amazing moment.
But did you get it
@@llenomu Yeah XD
@Lololololo lalelalelolela I didn't know it was $20 at the time. I'm just posting my story.
Ok legit me but I’m Puerto Rican
@@ceciliamartinez4575 Its annoying right? People do this stuff all the time.
Less of a multilingual 'experience' but more of a cringe thing:
I'm Korean and still in secondary school in England. I speak Korean fluently... but with the rise of Korean entertainment, there have been an influx of Koreaboos at my school. Their Korean is so cringeworthy and honestly it's offensive how some of them stereotype us? I saw one of them try to glue their eyelids to get a 'monolid' and I was shocked and honestly quite self-conscious about how my eyes looked. Some of them tried to be friends with me, completely uninterested in who I am as a person but more obsessing over the fact that I'm Korean?
I have no problem with people trying to learn Korean or appreciating Korean culture, but stereotyping us and fetishizing us is honestly just stupid and makes me feel kind of... dehumanised in a sense? As if I was a toy for them to obsess over for a year or something and then thrown away.
Also, ily if you're trying to learn Korean but there's a line between genuine interest/appreciation and cringe. I have no problem if they were trying to communicate with me in Korean over texts/speech to improve their language skills, but they're not even trying. They just insert random 'Korean' words into their everyday speech and try to pass it off as Korean, which hugely misrepresents our culture and language. It's gotten to the point where I've seen people on the internet being called Koreaboos simply because they appreciate and are trying to learn more about our culture. It's turning people off learning about us :(
Sorry about the huge rant if you read this but I just needed to get this off my chest. It's been bugging me for ages.
I know I like kpop and all, but I got called a koreaboo just because I was trying to learn a phrase to say to my best friend's mom, who isn't very fluent in English, would that still be considered being a koreaboo? I just wanna know cause i feel bad?
@@yosi4722No not at all. Because you were just trying to speak to one of your relatives 😄
Edit:Woww thank you for the likes guys 😊😊I really appreciate it ❤️❤️❤️
@@yosi4722 Nah that's just being helpful. As long as you're not trying to pass yourself off as Korean/fetishize them/misrepresent our culture, that's fine.
Yup me too im fluent in korean, its my first language, and im half korean, so i really dont look korean, and people has said really rude things about me and they thought i couldnt understand
I'm sorry you had to go through that. I myself am learning Korean, but I'm also learning other languages because I like learning other languages. My goal is to Know Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and Korean fluently as well as a bit of German. I want to travel and actually be able to hold conversations with people when I travel. I love Kpop like many people but would never fetishize Korean people, as a POC myself I know a thing or two about my race and culture being a fetish for others.
Okay, so this happened on my first day at school.
I was sitting with a guy and talked to him in English because I was more comfortable with it, he thought I could only speak English so he started talking to his friend about me in Tagalog.
Their conversation about me was like "She's a foreigner dude. I'm sure of it!" "Yeah, just look at her! She's definitely a foreigner!"
I could understand everything they said and was debating if I should tell them or not, I had a hard time controlling my laughter and keeping a straight face when they started chatting about who should asked me first.
Minutes go by and I finally had enough 😂 I spoke to them in Tagalog and told them that I could understand what they were saying and stuff, they turned beet red.
My other classmates who was eavesdropping on their conversation heard me and stared at me in disbelief.
That was hilarious 😂
Bakit nila na isip na taga ibang bansa ka?
@@fabreo4041 cuz of my accent and how I look like a foreigner lol
put tank in a mall pls.
Haha that reminds me of a time here in China.
I'm a pretty pale white American dude, but in the far northwest of China there are multiple ethnic minorities that could pass for European or white and I've been mistaken for some of those minorities on more than a few occasions because I live pretty close to those provinces where the lighter skinned minorities live...One of the more amusing times I was mistaken was when I was shopping for parts for my electric scooter and I hear this older Chinese Muslim guy and his children arguing whether or not I'm a foreigner or a Chinese minority...I felt really bad to burst his bubble when he found out he was wrong and I really was a foreigner.
I've also had at least two or three occasions where people asked me what Chinese ethnic minority I was and I told them I was white American and they were like, "yeah okay, but are you Han Chinese or Hui Chinese?"
@@crafty_prop.......
Bad wording someone in a different language is cowardly
Blin!!!
b nmms lol
@@carlitoxb110 JAJAJAJ QUE MAMÓN
How so?
Lol what’s the point of a different language then?
People be like
I speak Spanish
“recites despacito lyrics”
Lol
Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito
Traduzcan esto!
@@risardo7097 I don't speak teico
@@bossbabyfuyuhiko6657 exactly, you are learning fast, but can you this?
"Telefónica es el próximo gran desastre económico español, la cantidad de deuda es masiva y el servicio al cliente carece de los aspectos más básicos de educacion, una desgracia de compañia"
I bet you can't, without using the Google Translator.
@@Frank_144 Deja que te diga cosas al oído, someone continue the lyrics!
9:51
If anyone is wondering, "Tack och förlåt" means "Thank you and sorry"
Thats what I thought. But thanks for posting this.
Thanks :3
More like "Thanks and sorry" :D
@@VersusThem Thanks means the same thing as thank you
Skrtaa du folar du
I’m Swedish and very socially anxious.
When visiting London with my brother I would most often talk to him in Swedish and then let him translate the words to any English person. Not because I didn’t know English but simply because I felt more relaxed talking Swedish.
I sat down at a cafe and my brother went to get the food. Some fellas one table over had probably heard me ramble in Swedish and were yelling at me stuff like “Stupid Russian go back to your own country” etc and then laughing when I looked confused. My brother came back and asked me in Swedish what was going on and me, still being confused replied in English
“These people thinks I’m Russian.”
They acted like they hadn’t noticed us and left just a few minutes later.
What a bunch of assholes ugh. They must be pretty stupid if they don't know what Russian sounds like, Swedish is obviously a germanic language while you cant understand Russian at all
Makes me wanna punch those guys in the face
As a Brit, I am so sorry for people like that. I sort of want to find those men and smack them.
As a Russian person, I'm a little offended. What's wrong with being Russian? Those people are very ignorant.
Dana Dar I don't think they had anything against Russia... I think they just heard someone talking in a language they didn't know and decided to be jerks. I think it just so happened that they thought it was Russian. But, I can't know for sure. I don't think you have to be worried about it though. They're just immature jerks. 😂😊
It honestly is like a social super power.
"you cast language" - everyone is dumbfounded, and you gain +4 on intimidation
(Passive effect): when not cast, you have an increase in sneak
Irritating Person *illusion
It feels like Sneak 100
I'm the 666th liker😂
I’m British, I grew up here, I live in Bristol now, I’ve only ever left once to go on holiday. However I have a very good knack for learning languages. I learnt German in school, did french in collage and learnt Spanish from an online course. I worked in a store for a while and we would get a lot of foreign citizens coming in which is why I got the job and why I stick around at this place.
We had a group of girls come in and start looking at the clothes we have. They pick out some and walk over to the checkout where I’m standing. One of them, who is better at talking English than the rest pay for the clothes and as I’m scanning them, she looks over her shoulder at her friends and says, “He’s really cute isn’t he” in German and the girls giggle. I pretend not to notice and keep scanning. They’ve bought a lot of clothes, mostly skirts, tops, a few jackets, but also some bras and knickers, that’s panties for Americans.
I take them out of the basket and make a move to scan them but the girl said something else that caught me off guard, “I bet he’d love to see me in those”. I cough from the shock but play it off because I don’t want them to know I can understand them. I’m only half way through their 3 baskets of clothes and this girl won’t stop talking about me being cute or how I’d probably love seeing her in the clothes I’m scanning.
My German has got rusty because the store doesn’t get w lot of German customers, mostly french and Spanish, but I’m pretty sure I’m hearing this right.
When I’m finally down scanning the items, I smile and say, in German, “That’s £58 and 43p please.” The girl who was talking goes bright red white her friends burst out laughing. She suddenly loses he ability to pay and her friend has to help her out. I place the clothes into the bags and say, again in German, “I think you’ll look good in all of these”.
They left and I could here her trying to dig herself out of the hole she was in. They came back a week later to buy some more clothes, like how many do you need? I ended up getting her number that time and we’ve been dating for about 5 and a half months now. Being bilingual does help.
MartyMcmarty nawww how cute!! Herzlichen Glückwunsch^^
Z O D I E : vielen dank
This is the best thing I’ve read today
A PLOT TWIST (this is cute)
Agnes Fon Marten thank you, that’s a nice thing for you to say.
"bought my ticket with the company Society of Jesus"
Cerys Wintle- Hey, whatever works, right?
this guy doesnt give a shit he'll only go in and fix the tts if theres swearing
Y’all MFers need Jesus
As a swede, that was the funniest thing in the whole vid. Sj =Society of Jesus 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
For those who don't speak swedish: SJ stand for "statens järnvägar" = The national railways 😁
Do they also sell the ticket to Heaven?
No one probably noticed this but it was written as "finacé" and not "fiancé" so the bot said "finnakay". 😂
I notice this
I was just reading whithout the song turned on... thanks, now i know what these "finnakay jokes" are ;-;
Why not finnasay tho
@@cheeseycheezy What's the point? It would be better to just read the actual reddit page
There is always a group of "popular" Hispanic girls at my school, when I was in elementary school I was not well liked by them And would often hear them talking when I walked near them. At first, I didn't realize they were talking about me, as they talked in Spanish, but after one not so discretely jabbed a finger at me I gained a slow suspicion these girls were talking ABOUT me.
They hardly talked in Spanish unless they were complaining in class without the teacher understanding. one day I walked into class keeping a sly eye on the group as I sat down. I stopped as soon as the test started, because as an elementary schooler I had been what was called "a mother goose" or "teacher's pet"
I felt a strange feeling that someone was looking at me, and when I looked to the group of girls I found one, not looking at me, but my paper. I quickly told the teacher, and after the test found that same girl talking in Spanish. I at the time had no idea what they were saying, but my teacher secretly knew what they were saying.
apparently, my teacher had kept his bilingual abilities a secret for his entire career and secretly knew every one of his Spanish speaking students complaints. Soon after he heard what they were saying, he (in Spanish) told them off. The girls turned red and one even cussed. later on, I eventually found out that she had been calling me a donkey and other rude things, and I was entirely grateful that the teacher had broken his Spanish speaking secret to defend me.
crafty calli aww what a sweet teacher )): and screw those mean girls ):
Thots are the true enemy of the people.
There was a German teacher that nobody really liked. She always assigned three times the homework of any other class. 4 to 5 pages every day. Not pages in the book.. written pages. The assignments would take half a page to write down which pages were due for homework. One day, we were doing pronunciation corrections, and she got to me. I said what was required, and she corrected what I said. I asked why she thought it was wrong.
"I spent one month hitch hiking in Germany. I know what the German dialect sounds like."
Me: "Oh."
"Why do you think you're correct?"
Me: "Because I lived in Germany for 4 years, and the lady that taught me to speak it was born there."
*class snickers*
Youre a nerd
Good on you for being a good student.
And Go Teacher Man! Not all Heros wear capes.
Those elementary school kids are the ones that need help...lordy. Only 10 and already an awful personality.
When I grew up playing the violin since I was 3 and spent most of my time at my best friends house who also played when I was young. I would practically live there because my mom is an actress and has a lot of work overseas and stuff. Their family was really nice and pretty much only spoke Chinese. Since I was so young and stayed with them for so long I basically learned Chinese. I could understand it pretty well but couldn’t really speak it. My mom didn’t even realize until a few years later when i was watching an interview or something in mandarin and she was like “wtf, do you understand that?” And I was so confused that I did lol.
Anyways, my friend had moved back to China with her parents so I wasn’t practicing my Mandarin really. Fast forward later when I’m starting to study the language more (I’m in highschool at this time). I was watching a lot of tv shows in mandarin and talking more and more so I was getting pretty good. Oh, I probably should have mentioned that I’m a white girl a purple pixie cut at this time.
OK, so this is when it happens. We’re at Yosemite because it’s pretty and there is a bus full of Chinese people. They’re all tourists with cameras and sun hats. One couple older couple is standing by this ledge with a wall where a ton of people were taking pictures and looking around like they wanted someone to take their picture. They spotted my mom and asked her in broken English something like “can you, picture of us?” And I was like MY TIME TO SHINE BITCHES. So I said in Mandarin. “I can take your picture, where do you want to stand for it?”
You should have seen the look on their faces. Anyways, I ended up talking to them a bit about how I was primarily self taught and my favorite Chinese TV shows. They filmed me saying stuff in mandarin for their daughter learning English back home. Fun times
Elly Anne "This is my time to shine bitches!😂😂😂" lol
@@thamilini9436 I would have felt that way too haha
Elly Anne this is funny and adorable!!!
"MY TIME TO SHINE BITCHES"
Who is your mum?
this makes me want to learn a million languages
i wanna learn korean :,D
la sheep same. I also wish I can sign language back when at a restaurant some mute stranger was asking for just a little amount of money for somebody's medical needs (she's holding a paper envelope with the message written), I was a student at the time so I couldn't afford to just hand out money so I just returned the paper. That night I googled how to say "sorry" and other commonly used phrases in sign language.
CheesecakeLasagna just show her your middle finger, she’ll understand.
Y yeah yeah no
There are only about 7 thousand alive today, most optimistic historical statistics go up to the hundred thousand in human history (the low bar is about 31 thousand). You'd have to invent a whole bunch to get to a million.
I have one, I am hispanic, but I speak fluent English. And one day my mother and I were in LA, at a park. And I was talking with her about how hot a guy in front of us was (in Spanish) and after a while this guy turns around to us and said “Hola”
Omg, I was so embarrassed
Sara 20 I speak English,Swahili,A little Arabic and Somali
well you were saying something nice, kind of a jerk move by him but not that bad xDD
Mohamed Ibrahim I Speak Arabic, French, English and a little bit of Spanish
MrPaws okay what I understood from your sentence: “If you speak Spanish... I hope that you have a great day and god bless you”
Gracias, espero que tengas un buen dia!
Did I say that right?
Takiz God* and God bless you!!🙃
I'm French-Canadian, but also a Swedish citizen and speaker through my parents. I learned English, obviously, but also German in school and lived in Germany for a while. This is kind of a double whammy story.
I was traveling in Switzerland, to Geneva (in the French-speaking part, but most locals there also speak German). I got to a hostel I had booked online for two nights, showed up at the reception, presented my Swedish passport (only EU ID I had), and spoke to the receptionist in English. Turned out, the online booking hadn't gone through and I wasn't on their system, so she called over the manager. The manager double-checked my passport, made sure the name was correct and that I wasn't on their system. At this point, they both probably assumed I was a Swede who only spoke English (other than Swedish). Bad assumption.
So, the manager tells the receptionist, in French, about how I was probably lying about my online booking and it was just a tactic to get a room in a fully booked hostel (high season). So, I defended myself, in French, and told them "how dare you accuse me of lying" and so on. They both turned red and were quite embarrassed.
The receptionist told me, nicely, that they were fully booked and there was no room available for two nights, and then she stopped suddenly, said "hold on a minute", and started working the computer intensely.
Meanwhile, the manager told her, in German this time, not to bother wasting time with me (or more precisely, with "diesem Arschloch") and to just send me packing. So, I retirted to the manager, in German, that the receptionist clearly cared more about the guests than she did and maybe she (the receptionist) should be the manager. The manager got really aggravated and stormed out, back to her office.
The receptionist smiled at me, in a "thank you" sort of way, and soon after, she booked me into two rooms (one for each night), and I had a wonderful stay!
This is too Awesome! 😂👍
Clap backs game are strong
Did they speak dialect or standard German?
Crissement drole 😂
@Mofu Mofu who I knows if this happened
Me and my
-finacè-
Finna K.
It's spelled fiancé, that's why it was pronounced wrong
When i grow up i will marry my finna K
@@sarahlavan9041 7:11 did u even watch the vid
@@Paul-hq7gf exactly my point, who ever wrote the story spelled the word wrong, so when this channel had a bot read it out, it pronounced the word how it was spelled.
@@sarahlavan9041 oh ok i thought u were correctong the commentor instead of referring to the vid, my bad
It gets funnier the more languages you know. English is my first, followed by Spanish, German, Russian, and soon to be korean. People are more shocked because I'm African American
How long did it take to learn each language?
True!
@@juicykrabb4042 it took me 3 years to learn Spanish, another three for German, and two for Russian. Korean is definitely going to take longer than all of those.
@Spanish Moustache german was surprisingly easy to learn. I think it was its closeness to the English language in certain areas.
I only speak English fluently, but people are typically shocked at my Korean. (I can speak fairly well, How much I understand depends on the day).
I was in a German/Austrian restaurant in Cambodia. The owner kept talking in English with us. Which was fine to me, since both English and German are foreign languages to me, Dutch is my native language.
After a while some German tourists also came in. From that point on we didn't see the owner at our table anymore. He was sitting with the German customers and was saying to them how we were cheapskates for not ordering more food than we did.
Because both me and my partner weren't drinking beer, he was telling them we couldn't hold our alcohol, which made us losers.
If it hadn't been for the really friendly staff I would've walked out. But we finished our meals, sneaked some money to the waitress and chef without the owner seeing it and went on our way.
While we were walking out the owner, fake friendly, wished us a nice evening. To which I replied: Wir reden auch Deutsch, arschloch (we also speak German, asshole)
Both the owner and the German guests were shocked. One of the ladies looked like she was going to be sick 🤣
M.Janski du hast gut gemacht, sie sind arschlöcher, oder ?
M.Janski hahaha lekker!
Buttrape Bill both is right
_These are not the Russians you're looking for._
I’m multilingual too. I can read and speak numbers, letters, and punctuations.
Damn. That's tricky!
ElectrifyXD I found you here lol!
Btw if you don't know I watch some of your vids :P
You got us in the first half not gonna lie
@T Mox rwooooosh
..!”;)-‘):?;&?/,?&? 9274827
I'm a Chinese born and raised in Germany. One day I was standing in a bookstore with my mom, asking her in Chinese whether I should buy a book by Kafka or Eichendorff (I was holding them in my hands) as an old man came towards me speaking slowly and carefully "Excuse me, I've seen the books and heard your conversation. These might be too difficult for you, the language is hard to understand" I answered in perfect German that I was thankful for his advice but considered my German to be good enough.
We ended up talking about Tolstoy and Dostoyewski.
Acylea wow you read Kafka by your own will?? I get assigned by school to read his books lmao.
@@zodie4085 Thanks, yeah I do although I actually prefer russian literature. Gimme your school books and I read them for you lol
@@zodie4085 They are much more enjoyable if you don't have a teacher breathing down your neck. I went from being a hater to an appreciator once the teacher-issue was in the past
@@basho4306 I am a slow reader in Russian (the alphabet fucks me up sometimes), but I do understand the language completely. What would you recommend for an adult with a literature degree that is easy enough to read?
Russian literature is amazing! Do you speak russian or do you read the books in German/Chinese?
Also were you talking about Leo or Alexey Tolstoy?
I'm Polish and I'm used to spend my winter holidays in Austria on Italy. Once, when I was skiing some lady started to shout at me in Polish, about the way I ski. I turned to her and said "Dzień dobry, jak to miło spotkać Polaka tak daleko od domu" (Hi, how nice it is to meet other Polish pearson that far from home). She turned bright red
I use to work at a hardware store and a man who was on the phone was trying to return something. No packaging. No receipt. I said we aren't able to return it. He had the guy on speaker and the phone was on the counter. He screamed in French "LOOKS LIKE IM GOING TO BE LATE BECAUSE THIS STUPID GIRL CANT DO A SIMPLE F***** RETURN!".
I then smiled. And responded in French "this stupid girl can also speak fluent French. Would you like to tell him that too?"
The man went red and over the phone I hear loud laughter. I never saw him again after he ran out
😂😭☠💀🤣
Lol that persons friend understood it
I have a similar story: I’m korean and I know english and korean. I learned Chinese for a few years for fun. One day I visited the Great Wall of China for vacation. While I was there, i yelled out “oppa” because oppa means brother in Korean. Then this Chinese boy next to me said: oppa? She’s korean. She’s cute
Then I turned around and said thank you in Chinese. His expression was priceless
Since you know korean & chinese, how similar are the languages? Are you thinking about learning another asian language like japanese?
Randy Wilks
Hi there, i can tell you that korean language has chinese origins. For example some of korean writing character are chinese one. But korean change a lot of thing from the chinese orinal character. They are still a little bit related like korean people also do the chinese new year
Randy Wilks it isn’t at all. Korean is similar to Cantonese but not Mandarin at all.
@T Mox Mandarin
T Mox those are the dialects :)
This happened to me the other day
I was eating some food in town and I was watching an animation about WWII (out of habit I always only have one earphone in so I can hear if anyone is calling me and stuff) and so these two girls sit next to me and were speaking polish to eachother and I didn't care what they were talking about, then at some point they started talking about the animation I was watching, and started calling me an idiot and lots of other rude names in polish which they didn't know I understood, after a while I dead ass gave one of them a death stare because I got bored of the name calling, she was like "Omg she looked at me" and seemed a bit scared by it, and then I looked again and said "That's because I understand everything you're saying" in polish. Never heard silence like it, the smell of embarrassment filled the room. Fair to say that was the best day I had so far this year.
people just need to stop being mean... if they can talk bad about any strangers they just happen to look at... their hearts are not pure...
Watches an animation in public and gets called an idiot. What.
@Jack Blackthorn Not at all, I don't think English speakers could even understand what had just happened, let alone heard it during lunch rush hour.
@Jack Blackthorn Wowee, original comment of the year here, fellas. Because EVERYTHING can't be trusted.
Ciekawa historia!
My sister and my friend were once in Greece on an island and there was this guy they were talking about and the conversation (Dutch) went like this;
"You see that guy? He is sooo handsome!! I mean just look at that!"
"I'm not sure, I can only see his back."
"So What? His ass looks fine too!"
We then realised he could understand us ... I already though I saw him laughing at us lmao
SO I used to work in a shoe store in a very Asian and Latino neighborhood, as a stockperson. I'm an incredibly white guy. Like, sunburnt by the full moon levels of pale. I walk in after being transferred to the new location, and had two of the sales reps do a once-over on me, before one of them turned to the other and said "Porque es el nuevo muy feo, ayayay. Oy Dios! Traeme guapos, por favor!" (Why is the new guy so ugly? Come on, God, send some handsome ones to me!)
I just went over to the shelves, found the brand "Pikolinos" (A Spanish-made foreign shoe) and took out a shoe style that was titled "Bruja" (Witch). While they were watching me, I thought back to the weird trick where, if you hand something to someone, they will subconsciously take it without thinking about it. I walked over and handed the shoes to her, saying "Por tus feos pies. Perdoname, no tengo una cabeza nueva. Mis colondencias." ("For your ugly feet. I'm sorry, I don't have a new face for you. My condolences).
Amidst her shock and confusion, she didn't look at the kind of shoe I'd given her until after I'd gone back into the backroom to begin organizing and familiarizing myself with the stock, but I heard her curse, and her friend cackling in the other room. I heard her friend say in Japanese, "Korehaomoshiroii! Omoshiroi ne!" (Oh this one's funny! That was hilarious, wasn't it?)(Omoshiroi could also mean 'interesting,' but contextually it makes sense to assume she meant 'funny' because of how much she was laughing.)
My grasp of Japanese isn't great when it comes to speaking, but listening to people, I can understand a fair amount, so I just yelled back "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!" (Thank you for looking after me/It will be a pleasure to work with you), which only made her crack up some more.
Fun place to work, after that. The first one apologized soon after, and the second one never let her live it down.
You forgot to say “and everyone clapped”
roguefever
Just to let you know, cabeza means head. Cara means face.
MadJaster lol, I always get the two mixed up. Also the store was empty, since it was before hours, so there wasn’t really anyone to clap.
Queue recorded laugh
When anime is useful
I love how they all have some elaborate back story as to why they are bilingual
I just taught myself. (Shrugs)
Sells the story better XD
I just learned both since young
@@clarice.moonqn Now that sounds more realistic
Porque aprender un nuevo idioma es muy interesante y bonito. And like the saying goes "why not".
My story was a bit if an accident. I don't know but a few words in Chinese, but I went to a Chinese place and we had a waitress was talking to her coworkers in Chinese. Didn't understand a word of it, but when she brought out our food I responded "Xie Xie," which means "Thank you," in Mandarin. She turned beet red and we got a discount. Still have no clue what she said and I still go there pretty often.
That's very sweet! Apparently many customers do that as they show interest in foreign cultures.
Haha I was on a train in China once, and there were two families of two in the same train room as me. Like, overnight train. And they were talking about me, but not in a bad way. The parents were like "if you want to speak to her, you have to improve your English!"
I'm just too shy and socially awkward to speak to anyone... So I just read a book. :(
AC9123 i relate too hard, it’s somehow extremely embarrassing to mess up in talking in another language
@@cheesenipspartymix Yeah... I'm always afraid I said the word wrong
@@AC9123 Talking to other people on a train is actually quite fun.
I know this is isnt reddit but here is my story:
I can speak korean so when i went to korea everyone was talking about me in my new school
My classmate thought i was beautiful
My teachers thought i was stupid
And my "friend" wanted to stab me in the back with a knife
It was fun when they found out that i knew korean
Wait... stab you? o__O Did they leave you alone after they found out about you understanding Korean? I hope you're okay! I mean, you're here writing this comment, but that sounds really scary.
@@ReptilianTeaDrinker I agree completely...
I am ze spy
The teacher, i-
@@ReptilianTeaDrinker I _think_ it was figurative
“Finna-k”
*SPEECH 100*
English translator voices be like:
Nhaa fam speech 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
The bit in the Swedish train story about the company "SJ" being called Society of Jesus was hilarious, too.
Do you even play skyrim?
Mine was actually a bit of an accident.
Once, a guy came into our store and stood right next to the counter where I was working, telling his friend about a trip he had taken to Belgium and how he could speak fluent Dutch now. His buddy seemed pretty impressed by that and I didn't think anything of it at the time. When they were done picking out their item, they happen to choose my counter to ask a few questions about their purchase and I thought to myself: 'What a great opportunity to flex my Dutch skills.' I speak fluent Dutch, but rarely get to practice it because no one speaks it where I live (France). So, the guy comes over and I turn to the 'Dutch speaking guy' and I greet him and ask how I can help in Dutch. His face went completely pale when he realized that I was speaking Dutch and he couldn't make heads or tails of what I was saying. His friend, in the meantime, gave him this puzzled look, as if to say: 'Dude, why aren't you responding? You speak Dutch, right?' Turns out, he didn't speak Dutch at all and I just inadvertently called him out on his BS. They left in such a hurry, they didn't even complete their purchase.
LOL 😂
If this happened to me i'd run after the dude and tell him as much as "sorry"s i can say, but in the end i would tell him it's bad to lie.
“What a great opportunity to flex my Dutch skills” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@Xylarxcode
Haha mooi gedaan! xD
I’m fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and English and one day in Spanish class my teacher thought i wasn’t paying any attention since I was doodling so he called up my name and asked me out of the blue((I think it was to through me off since it wasn’t a question about the topic but oh well)) “are you even listening? You and the class can nearly speak a proper sentence in Spanish and you’re not paying attention??” I literally heard sounds of heads and chairs screeching to face me as I was asked the question. ((No one even knew what he asked since no one speaks it in my class)) I didn’t even look back before answering back in Spanish. “I am listening. I’m just choosing not to look. I already know what I need to know. This is baby stuff.” And the look of the kids faces and the the teachers were amazing. In the end me and the teacher got along great and turns out he also majored in math so he helped me with my math homework a lot. Great teacher.
Así se demuestra quien manda XDDDD
Medusa
Água viva
Jellyfish
Dd wowzer SIM ! eu só a rainha dessa classe 😆
I had a classmate do something like that in middle school Spanish, not following or participating in class because he was fluent. And when she found out, our native speaking teacher brought in advanced Spanish materials and changed the kids course materials (with his parents approval). He had opted for Spanish over German or French because he was fluent and wanted an easy grade (I think he was in a few honors classes too, so an easy class would have taken some stress off). Poor guy ended up being her her go to for demonstrations and such too.
@@foxb6756 my teacher was scolding us for not paying attention in English class, then she told us a true story. Apparently, a few years ago in my school, there was this boy who was so eloquent and fluent in English that his standard was years better than his classmates and therefore English period was basically his playtime because he didn't have to listen
It made my whole class jealous of the boy, being able to not pay attention yet scoring perfect scores.
A couple of "then everybody clapped" moments in there.
"but bought my ticket with the company *drumrolls* SOCIETY OF JESUS"
A title at the end of a priest’s name ex Pope Francis SJ (jesuits)
I thought I heard wrong lmao
LOL
If anyone cares it (SJ; Statens Järnvägar) means The State's Railroads. SJ are longer distance trains within Sweden while anything that ends in trafik/lokaltrafik is regional.
so im chinese but born in america. my first language was mandarin but then i started learning shanghainese since my family was from shanghai, then english became my 3rd language. Once i started elementrary school i ended up speaking more eng and shanghainese with my family, and soon forgot mandarin. i can still understand it however but im uncomfortable speaking it skskkdkd. anyway, i was in china and speaking english to my mom- this chinese mom told her son in chinese “yOU SEE THAT GIRL STUDY VERY HARD SO SHE CAN SPEAK ENGLISH WELL YOU NEED TO STUDY ENGLISH HARDER OK-“
Yeyyy, found an army ;) (i know this is random, but i gotta do it heheheheh.....)
edit: Lol, i was born in Indonesia but some of my family speaks chinese too. So i can understand them a little bit but uncomfortable speaking them too.....
Typical chinese parents
Im malaysian chinese and everyone else's parents are like this ahahha
Btw hi armiesss
joon’s crab nation rkkrrkrkrkr
Yeet armys!!!!
LMFAO
I was reading an info sign and this guy comes up to me and says "you need to know English to read that" and I was like dude if I didn't know English why would I be reading this 🤦
Did he speak to you in English too? If so then that person is a Grade-A moron.
Yeah, what language was he speaking?
Probably Canadian.
Hello Toaster lmao yes
@@hellotoaster4302 or maybe british.
In French class, a guy walked to the guy sitting in front of me and asked him if he liked me (or something similar) in Chinese. I understood him and said to him ‘ you know I can understand Chinese, right?’ in Chinese and his reaction was amazing.
"We are Americans now"
*+100 DARK AND MYSTERIOUS POINTS*
Edit: WHAAAAAA- The most likes I've ever gotten before was 6, oh my gosh thank you!
Edit edit: The hecc- thank you so much guys! ^w^
Stealth 100
Speech 100
John Cena 100
tatum nicole 607 times more then 6, plus 2 extra!
*MAAAAATH?!*
" Finake "
Great Fiancé pronauceation
Ok
SteamPlay22 best pronunciation spelling? xD
Edit: just so you guys know in case he edits he said pronauceation
@@tanasirobert9157 We both have our quirks
SteamPlay22 wdym
@Hermit Crabbe If you know how it was spelled in the video (where it was actually finacé, so I guess not?) then why is your first reaction to doubt him and not the text-to-speech bot?
Moral of the story: don't talk smack about other people in your own language in a public place. You never know who's listening!
Sees: Finacé
Says: Finakay
The problem with misspellings
Not really a multilingual experience, because it was in my native tongue, but it's something similar.
Last year I went to Japan as part of a study program, one of the activities to learn more about Japan was visiting some shrines in Kyoto, Fushimi Inari Taisha being one of them, they gave us one hour to explore the shrine and go to the top of the mountain if we wanted to. And so I did, and after that I was kinda in a hurry to get down because I had like 20 minutes left. But I wasn't sure I was on the right road, you see, there are two roads that go to the summit, but it can get kinda confusing, so when I took the road I didn't come from, I felt as if I was going the wrong way, so I stopped every now and then to check Google Maps and make sure I was actually getting closer to the entrance. While doing this, I went past two Spanish girls a couple times, because they'd catch up with me while I was looking at my phone. And after the third time, I heard one of them loudly say (in spanish) something along the lines of "what is wrong with this fucking creep, he keeps stopping and then walking past us, he's going to try to do something to us". I'm bolivian, and we speak spanish here, so I understood everything. I decided to stop one more time and pretend I checked my phone again. And when they got close, I asked them in perfect Spanish if they knew if I was taking the right road to get to the main shrine at the entrance. The one who was talking shit went red, like, crimson red and didn't even answer. Her friend, laughed at her, and told her it was karma, she then said that it was indeed the right way. I thanked them and told them I was sorry if I made them uncomfortable, that I was just a bit lost. Which prompted another burst of laughter from the girl at her friend while she covered her face with her hands. It felt pretty good.
@@Lycxv You serious?
It should!
@@elisabethheiman2104 of course not, or at least he shouldn't xDD
There's a reason girls get scared when a guy acts like that. It happens too often to not be cautious. As long as you cleared it up it's fine. Just know she wasn't really an "ass" for being cautious when a guy following a female often times makes the female scared due to personal experience. I know I've been followed an annoyingly high amount and each time I have to call someone on my phone or act like I know someone else on the street and they leave immediately. It's not fun
@@warriorwolfehh yea but instead of leaving would you stay around and act like a dick?
I'm from a small island; about 341 thousand people can speak our language, me and my family were on the elevator on the eifel tower, and there was another family making fun of us in that language, ending in a "don't worry, they can't understand us" my dad proceeded to ask me what time it is in that language. the elevator was quite for the whole time
edit: the language is called papiamentu
What language is that?
What language is it
Eiffel* but cool story! Serves them right. Never smack talk someone, even in a language you think they don't understand.
You're from Aruba? (I'm from Venezuela btw but i know people there that talks Papiamentu)
@@TheAndreso_ Nah, from their lesser known brother, curacao
non native english speaker: Sir, if you would please excuse my bad english, as I don’t natively speak english
me: dat b k
so true lol
Lmao 'cos of those kind of people I feel like I'm the only non-native English speaker who's actually pretty confident in their English skills and never apologizes for possible mistakes.
@@miri4963 Lol same here
"We are Americans now"
Proceeds to dismount bear and hide vodka and rapidly gain fifty pounds
For context: My dad is Greek and my mom is Dutch. I have been raised multilingual.
One day I was working in our family business in Greece, at a touristic island.
A Dutch couple walked into the shop. I greeted them in English as I normally do to customers,
asked them if they needed any help, and then let them look around undisturbed.
They start having a conversation about mundane everyday couple stuff in Dutch, and I don't intervene because I have no reason to do so.
Then the woman goes into the changing room to try on some clothes.
As she walks out wearing a dress, her partner loudly says "This dress makes your titties look juicy" in Dutch, and I immediately make up my mind; I'm not going to let them know I can understand them anytime soon. They asked me things about the prices and the materials, and I replied in English. The inappropriate Dutch comments continued, the poor guy had no IDEA I could understand him.
Long story short, they come up with the stuff they want to buy, and hand it over to me to wrap.
"That'll be 62 €" I tell them in Dutch with a bright smile.
The clothes gave us good money, but the guy's face when he realized I understood _every word of what he said_ about his partner's boobs, was priceless.
The Dutch would djakdkakkd
@@aperson501 mmmm oké. Geen idee wat voor Nederlandse dat moet zijn.
were they juicy though is the real question
Δουλευεις ακομη στην ελλαδα?
@@mariafoivi3599 Το καλοκαίρι :^)
This isn't that good but once I was in a park and some girls were speaking Lithuanian, making fun of me and my brother. I knew I was gonna say something but I had to wait for the right moment. One of the girls said something along the lines of "It's so good that he can't understand us" and I said (in Lithuanian) "Yes, very good." They just walked out the park in shame
I would've personally responded "Oh can't I?" but also quite a scathing response
Nesitikėjau apie lietuvių kalbą pasiskaityt, bet heh vis dėlto radau
@@Gamesfan34260 Personally feel like his original response is better. Responding as if he's talking about himself lol "Oh yes, very good that he can't understand you"
I used to speak Lithuanian (I didn't learn to read), but because I don't speak it as much, I basically forgot.
When I went to America so many people were shocked when i spoke their language (I'm from Australia)
Totodiledude Lol this actually made me laugh
haha lol :) Australian accents are cool
XD this is actually funny
omg Australians can speak AmErIcAn
Totodiledude wth lol where did you go in America?
I know a similar story. Not mine but i don't care. I'm from Poland but i live in Germany together with my mom. Her coworker wich is also from Poland told us the story.
She was driving a bus. It was pretty empty. Few steps away from her was a bunch of teenagers speaking Polish, and telling each other what kind of sex they like, whom did they fucked recently and stuff like this.
My mom's coworker just listened to it until they were on her a bus stop where she hat to go out of the bus. She turned to this group and sayed (in Polish)
"Hey you there! Next time please don't talk obout shit like this in public. You never know if someone understands your language".
All of them turned red and were silent. And actually since i heard this story, I'm careful about what i am saying in public. Cuz u never know.
OMG, lol 😂
I’m American (I know French, Portuguese, and a little Spanish) and I can’t *WAITTT* for someone to assume I can’t speak their lang bcuz I’m an English speaker. I’m waitingggg for the occasion to arise . Please God, Please
Suerte amigo
Com BR vai ser difícil. Nós só falamos mal de europeus quanfo estamos no país dos mesmos. Portugueses são mais chatos e concerteza vão falar mal de você (na verdade eles vão falar na sua língua msm kkkkk)
Go to France! There the chance is higher
Deivison Carvalho kkkkkkkkk
Deivison Carvalho Eu provavelmente não vou entender os português msm
I live in the US and basically just speak English, but I was taking ASL (American Sign Language) classes when I was in high school, but the classes where at the community college. I don't know if this truely counts, but I think it does.
After the first two years of class, my teacher started a special summer class that you got an A just for showing up. It was a lot cheaper because it was basically just the class going into public places together and only being allowed to sign. Immersion you know. So the teacher picked certain places based off knowing the staff could talk to us.
Anyways, we all went out to lunch for one class, sat around one of the round tables and generally had a good time. Lots of signing and laughing, but nothing had happened that showed we could hear.
The table next to us noticed and we heard one of the ladies speak up first. Said something along the lines of, "oh aren't they cute, to be their stupid." One of her friends seemed to try to point out you shouldn't say those things she just pointed out that "they're all signing, they must be deaf so I can say whatever I want." And her friends seemed comfortable to join in under the assumption we couldn't hear.
We all tried to ignore the women, despite the horrible things they said. And the fact they where getting louder about it too. Things like, "retards like that shouldn't be allowed in public" "if I had a child like that I'd get rid of it immediately", etc.
It was getting pretty impossible to enjoy ourselves at this point, and then one of them said, "the government should make it illegal for them to breed, we don't need any more." And that was the last straw for my teacher, (the rest of us where in a college class and worried if we said anything we'd get our grade docked. Because the whole point of the class was to not talk.)
She just turned her head around to them and said, "hey, everyone at this table can hear perfectly fine and has understood everything you've said. Maybe it's time to shut up?"
Watching all the colour fade out of those ladies faces was beautiful.
I would've walked over there, yelled at them about how they spoke about a branch is the disabled community, and used not so nice gesture towards them.
That class sounds amazing - not the rude ladies part
i learned ASL in elementary, and i remember a bit
K and P
I would fucking slap the closest bitch to me
How is someone so fucking stupid to think that deaf people can't be intelligent? There's a million reasons someone could be deaf, including physical damage to the ears which would definitely have no bearing on mental capacity. It's that woman that shouldn't breed, she'll teach her kid to be dumb as bricks and to be bigoted.
ok so i'm ethnically chinese but was born and raised in malaysia. they teach chinese, english and malay in my school. besides that i have korean and japanese cousins that i'm close with, so i know basic korean and japanese too. i guess i look very asian cause every time i come across a foreigner they assume i only speak chinese.
my story is pretty similar to one of the stories in the video. basically i was out with a group of friends and we were having lunch together. the people at the table across from us were speaking about my friends highly inappropriately in english. one of the girls said that they would f*ck my guy friend. another guy said the same of one my girl friends. all of them didn't realise that all of us were fluent english speakers. after about a minute, i started to casually speak in english to my friends. the girl turned stopped but the guy just switched to japanese, not realizing i could still understand him. so i started speaking japanese, giving the guy across from me the stink eye. this is basically what i said in japanese: "i wonder how many more languages they'll assume we can't understand." that did the trick, and they finally shut up.
another, more pleasant story is when i was working part time at a shop my aunt owns. a pair of siblings come in, speaking korean. while i was preparing their order, the brother told his sister that he thought i was cute. i continued to pretend that i didn't understand them until i finished their order. i then proceeded to say in korean: "here's your order. thank you for coming and i hope you enjoy." the brother turned beet red and his sister burst out laughing. it was great.
The last story aaaaw it's cute and funny
aye malaysians
HII FELLOW MALAYSIAN ahahaha
hELLO FELLOW MALAYSIAN
I know some Korean and I've tried learning Japanese and I think Korean is easier, my native language is tough (and I can barely speak it but I can understand it very well) and here I am tryna learn other languages
here’s my story even though nobody asked lol:
i know english and korean, i studied it for 3 years but i don’t use it much. so when i go to central london which is about 20/30 mins away from where i live, and there are normally a lot of asian tourists (from what i see) and when i went to cross the road, there were a group of korean teenagers my age talking about me and how cute they thought i was. i then thought to myself if i should leave them and see what else they will say. they then carried on talking about who will get to talk to me first and things like that. (i know this sounds like a sort of story you would find in a fan fiction or something, but i find it as crazy as you do) . they follow me down the road and carry on talking in korean who’s going to make the first move. i simply turn around and say to them (something along the lines of):
“i find your compliments very flattering, thank you for being so sweet. i wouldn’t mind if any of you two made a move.”
and the look of shock on their faces was priceless. we actually ended up going the same way and i talked to them for a while and we still stay in contact. so jaebeom and taesung if ur out there love y’all!
Aw thats so cute
This is so freaking adorable
Any tips for studying Korean?
@@ye0nrie uh-
*time to read some more stories in the comments*
I am Korean and I had been learning Chinese (specifically, Mandarin) since I was twelve (not constantly though, actually I hadn't been practicing in for 2 years because I had to prepare myself for college). Few years ago, I went to a restaurant in Seoul with my family and there were Chinese-Koreans (descendants of Korean immigrants moved in China hundreds of years ago, which makes most of them speak both Chinese and Korean fluently) serving at the table. I really didn't talk for most of the time because I was so busy enjoying the food, so one of those ladies came to me and asked (in Chinese) if I can't speak Korean. Realizing what was going on, I answered back in Chinese that I am Korean, but I totally understood what you were saying because I can speak the language. Immediately the lady got so excited, saying that she finally found someone who could speak her first language because she was much comfortable speaking Chinese. Then she brought a younger waitress to us and introduced her, and it was turned out to be that the new waitress was the lady's daughter who moved together to Korea with her. I also found out that the younger waitress goes to a college in China, and she comes back to Korea for every vacation to stay with her family. Most of the conversation went in Chinese, it was very entertaining talking to these two women (although the lady's daughter didn't talk very much), and it felt like we suddenly became close friends. I even got a free drink for the whole table, which I really appreciated. I still wonder if the lady (and her daughter) still works in that restaurant, so I could say hello to them when I go back to Korea.
최예은 I’m Chinese and learning Korean lmao maybe we can help each other
Edit: I misread that but omg that’s hilarious
That's rather wholesome! C:
This is a little unrelated to the story but your English is awesome!
This is so cute
great story :)
I have a good one: a French friend of mine, who studies chinese, goes on a trip to China for her studies. Once there, she has to take a night train to make a really long journey. Her group of friends shares a compartment with a chinese guy who is sleeping. They comment in French on the guy saying he smelled bad, looked weird, that he might be doing strange things when he's home alone, etc. Turns out the guy was a French teacher at the University of Beijing and could speak and understand French like a native speaker.
:( Poor guy
Well it doesn’t matter if he was sleeping, right?
@@Mike-xg4ym Light sleepers exist, my mom can't sleep if I breathe too loudly sksksk
You just met Professor Lupin 😂
I have one.
So I was born in Nepal but moved away when I was 4. I used to speak Nepali fluently but forgot most of it. I went on a trip to Nepal with my grandparents and they didn't realise that I was relearning Nepali and they didn't realise that I'd actually learned a fair amount. I saw my gran talking to another lady so I decided to see how much of their conversation I could understand. I listened in a bit and the conversation was MY GRAN telling the other lady about how fat I'd become. Thanks for the confidence boost gran! 😂
Did you let her know afterwards that you understood what she said? lol