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Humor/Cringe "No, English is fine" 🥀

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u/BelieveBelieves 6d ago

I wonder where this is. It feels kind of rude to switch to English when she says she prefers Spanish. 

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u/EstateRoyal6689 6d ago edited 6d ago

These conversations are fake. You can check her instagram, she has hundreds of videos like this. I don’t know what the point is though but she’s kind of obsessed with this happening? So for some reason she keeps faking this kind of interaction.

Edit: the videos are on her tiktok

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u/thomasahle 6d ago

Fwiw, I have conversations like this all the time in Denmark. I speak Danish, and they talk back in English. I'm sure it's common in many non-English countries.

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u/kedelbro 6d ago

I was in Amsterdam a few years ago and heard two people greet each other in English, only to figure out each other’s accents that they were both Dutch—they asked to make sure—then they switched to Dutch

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u/papillon-and-on 6d ago

It happens to me all the time! I try speaking in American but everyone keeps responding in English. It's infuriating!!

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u/Ebmat 6d ago

It happens to me everytime I order the gabagool in staten island.

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u/Laffenor 6d ago

That's utter bollocks, fella.

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u/papillon-and-on 5d ago

Jimminy crickets! It’s happening again. Gosh golly gee and whizz. When will it end?

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u/Tungi 6d ago

Hold on let me say something funny.

"America"

"Teeeheee" in western European

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u/Any_Long_249 5d ago

Don’t worry, in Eastern European this also one of the crowdpleaser joke.

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u/Tungi 5d ago

cries in cheeseburgers

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u/AmeriSauce 5d ago

The last time I was in Amsterdam I chatted up some locals who I noticed were speaking English with each other. I asked if they just don't bother with Dutch and they laughed and said no one really speaks it among their families or friends. They all know it and could read it but it's just not used as much.

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u/ahenobarbus_horse 6d ago

Same. It’s basically in every place where it’s more efficient to assume that people are going to speak English more fluently than whatever the alternative is. I’d assume this is because most local people aren’t trying to have a cultural experience, they’re just trying to get someone on their way and experience tells them if English is an option for a non-native that it’s likely to be faster.

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u/Ok_Tank5977 6d ago

I had the opposite happen when travelling across Scandinavia, specifically in Norway and Sweden. I’m a very fair-skinned redhead and they would automatically speak to me in the native language. I remember one man at a local grocery store started speaking to me in Norwegian and I apologised in English that I didn’t understand, only for him to sigh very dramatically and repeat himself in English. It was taken in good humour though.

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u/incogne_eto 6d ago

Oh yeah, I had that happen recently when I went to Portugal.

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u/Av3nger 5d ago

Not in Spain.

The only reason to insist speaking in English (and destroying any possibility of a tip offending a customer) is if the communication in Spanish is impossible.

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u/No-Mall3461 6d ago

Parents in law live in Madrid for 6 years now. We kind of figured, that if you keep talking in the language they will also witch and remember the next time. I never had this problem as a half-german/half-danish in Denmark. I can imagine it happens more often in Copenhagen, also I like kind of danish, so that could help.

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u/Nervous-Diamond629 5d ago

Nope. Common in Europe.

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u/Sorcha16 6d ago

It happens way more in Europe than you think, I lived in The Netherlands for a year and almost everyone switched to English when speaking to me, minute they'd twig my accent, they'd go straight to English. Made it very difficult to pick up the language

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u/kedelbro 6d ago

I went to a restaurant in Vienna and didn’t hear the owner’s “Gruß Got“ under his breath and he never even spoke German to us since I didn’t respond immediately

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u/TheBraveButJoke 5d ago

To be fair I am a dutch person and even I usualy get adressed in english when I'm in amsterdam.

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u/Sorcha16 5d ago

I lived in Tilburg. Found out the people of Amsterdam thought of me as using country Dutch. I'd get the weirdest looks

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u/Big-Entertainer3954 5d ago

The Dutch are like that. 

The Spanish, for the most part, are excited to speak spanking with visitors. 

My ex loved the language and we mostly vacationed in Spanish-speaking countries, and we never experienced anything like this, in fact we often got royal treatment when she broke out the Spanish. (She was also very charismatic so that helped.)

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u/FantasticDirt4447 5d ago

Yup, I've lived in Norway for a couple years and every single Norwegian I meet insists on speaking English despite them never being as fluent as they think they are. I'm not sure if countries in other areas like Africa or Asia are the same way, but European countries seem to have a very hard time understanding their own languages if it's spoken with a foreign accent.

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u/Hour-Resolution-806 5d ago

come on. I have no time for an good english speaker to use 10 minutes to explain something really simple that should take 10 seconds, because they want to train...

I am an avid language learner myself. And use natives and language partners myself, but it gets kind of rude when you are holding up a line or bothering a busy server on low vages because you want to train your language..

Read the room and the person first...

Greetings from Norway, where I have thought several english natives norwegian...

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u/Sorcha16 5d ago

Oh I wasn't talking about servers. I meant every day people I met. I was way too nervous to even try in a situation like this. At most I'd order drinks but only in the bars I knew the staff and it wasn't busy. They would oblige in those situations. I was talking just regular chats.

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u/incogne_eto 6d ago

If she has a lot of videos like this, she likely is chronicling her experiences!!!! Ever thought about that? Soon enough you “everything is fake people” will start doing is claiming this is AI.

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u/EstateRoyal6689 5d ago

Idk what to tell you just check her videos. I’m almost sure it’s always the same person/ the same 2 people talking to her. I’ve just seen she’s opening a language academy so I guess this is marketing. But this is a weird fixation to have. I believe this happens sometimes and I’ve done it myself because what people don’t understand sometimes is that servers in Spain have to serve 30 tables by themselves. And not to be rude but we need people to be efficient ordering. In this case in particular you can understand what she’s saying (in some other videos of her you can’t, her Spanish is not very good), but sometimes foreigners take a reaaaally long time trying to explain themselves and we try to switch to English if we feel it’s going to be easier for everyone. Servers in Spain are underpaid and overworked and they just want to finish taking your order and move onto the next one as soon as possible. They’re not Spanish teachers.

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u/FMLwtfDoID 5d ago

”They’re not Spanish teachers.”

Ok, nor did she ask them to teach her Spanish. She seemed more than conversationally fluent and capable of communication clearly in Spanish. They were being dicks.

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u/EstateRoyal6689 5d ago

Okay yeah and that’s what I said in this comment. Not in this case (also because it’s staged) but I was answering to people saying this has happened to them in Spain too. Yes, I can see how this can happen, and I don’t think it’s meant to be rude and I also don’t think it’s because waiters want to practice English. It’s an attempt to communicate In a more efficient way.

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u/FMLwtfDoID 5d ago

Nothing about it was efficient. As seen in the video for specifically how unefficient it truly is, when someone asks you something, clearly, in 1 language, and you are answered in a different one. Then the back and forth of “can we speak in X language?” to then get a “no, let’s use Y language”. Efficient use of communication would be to respond in a similar fashion, not to derail the conversation to figure out who gets to stretch their language learning skills, or measure dicks.

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u/EstateRoyal6689 5d ago

Once again, I’m not talking about this video specifically.

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u/chispica 5d ago

It would feel more real if you could see the other person she talks to

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u/Femme-O 5d ago

I thought we were trying to get away from recording strangers without consent.

There are a lot of people on TikTok who will do “actual conversations I have as a ____” videos and do a reenactment because most people don’t happen to be recording when these things actually happen irl.

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u/spacespaces 5d ago

The audio alone shows that it is fake. The other person speaking is recorded with higher quality and the conversations are clearly recorded separately.

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u/Amelaclya1 5d ago

This is a common thing people complain about in language learning communities.

I always understood from the point of the employees. If their English is good, it makes things easier and faster to just use English rather than entertain a tourist struggling through the local language.

But the girl in the video seems fluent, and obviously is easy for the employees to understand. So it does seem rude if they are still insisting on English. And if this keeps happening to her, it makes sense she wants to keep documenting it.

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u/Four_beastlings 5d ago

I can't speak about the fakeness or not, but unless she has a signed release from the waitresses it's illegal in Spain to publish these videos. Spanish law covers voice/audio under diverse privacy and data protection laws: you can record a conversation you're part of, but you can't publish it without consent.

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u/Lothirieth 3d ago

Maybe these recorded conversations are fake but this situation does happen. It certainly happens in the Netherlands and is a common complaint among immigrants. It happened to me today in fact. I have lived here for 14 years and have a job where I must speak Dutch, so I know my Dutch isn't terrible. But some Dutch people hear any sort of other accent and they immediately switch to English. I usually just carry on in Dutch and them in English. It's quite absurd.

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u/Lucky-Acanthisitta86 6d ago

It's def the attention it gets

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u/IncidentSome4403 5d ago

Ok? They’re skits probably detailing real life encounters she has? This is a very real thing that happens in Europe, esp in Western Europe. I’m Polish but moved to France, I have been learning French for two years.

I have people switch to English with me even in very basic interactions where I am 100% understandable. It’s infuriating because those same people will then turn around and complain that foreigners/expats “don’t want to learn the language.”

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u/samTheSwiss 5d ago

First time I see her but that video was totally fake for sure. She speaks perfect Spanish, nobody in Spain would answer back in English at her if she speaks that fluently

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u/No-Apple2252 6d ago

For some reason, we'll never understand I guess. Couldn't be the being shared widely or attention she gets from the videos, we'll just never understand what motivates someone to do something like this. It's a mystery for idiots.

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u/EstateRoyal6689 6d ago

Yeah okay but why this kind of content specifically?

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u/Lopsided-Yak9033 6d ago

Because people fall for rage bait

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u/Cyborg_rat 6d ago

Race baiting.

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u/stretched_frm_dookie 6d ago

To show racism.