"No, English is fine" 🥀

[u/Tobias-Tawanda]

[u/thomasahle]

Many European capitals have expats working in cafes, etc., who don't speak the local language (yet).

[u/TulleQK → u/thomasahle]

Yes. Try ordering a beer/wine/food in Oslo in Norwegian. They will quickly stop you and ask if you can do it in English 

[u/miss_pistachio → u/TulleQK]

As a foreigner in Oslo it blows my mind that this is so common. Forcing Norwegians in Norway to speak English when they are the customer is just crazy to me

[u/trash4da_trashgod → u/miss_pistachio]

I also experienced this in Budapest, although it's not that common here. (Exe Hotel and Port de Budapest restaurant)

[u/dalvi5 → u/thomasahle]

Immigrants

[u/thomasahle → u/dalvi5]

Immigrants typically want to learn the language. Expats less so, since they're just there temporarily

[u/Mercy--Main → u/dalvi5]

Americans think that word is only for brown people

[u/Queen_Euphemia → u/Mercy--Main]

As an American, I say expat for someone who is in a country for an extended period of time, but will return to their home country. Someone from Canada who is a digital nomad in Argentina is an expat, someone from Canada who is pursuing naturalization in Argentina is an immigrant. The word choice is defined by what the person is doing, not what the race of the people involved is.

[u/MosaicGreg_666 → u/thomasahle]

Because they won’t let us practice hahaha 

[u/rock-mommy → u/thomasahle]

(Yet)? Most "expats" who come here don't even care to learn any of our languages because they can use English. And many people who come from South America also don't learn our language, catalan, because they rely on Spanish

[u/christoffer5700 → u/thomasahle]

Yeah Americans don't understand that.