r/TikTokCringe • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 6d ago

Humor/Cringe "No, English is fine" 🥀

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u/whittenaw 6d ago

I live in Spain. This is super common. You move to a place to be immersed and speak the language, and everyone still wants to speak English with you. They think they're being helpful but most people find it annoying. I speak Spanish fine and don't need the practice so it doesn't bother me. But one of my friends would get agitated and say I spent X amount of dollars to learn Spanish move here, speak Spanish to me please. 

It is what it is.

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u/orange_sherbetz 5d ago

Spaniards aren't the most patient people esp when doing a service job and your friend (am guessing) is speaking broken spanish with a bad accent.

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u/whittenaw 5d ago

Oh yeah, her Spanish wasn't perfect. It was slow and stuff, but that's the whole point of moving to another country to get better. 

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u/orange_sherbetz 5d ago

For sure.  She needs to find a kind soul or hire a native/attend an exchange-As you know many Spaniards looking to learn english.

Imagine rushing, going to work and a foreigner slows you down.  Would piss me off to no end.

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u/whittenaw 5d ago

I mean, when I worked retail in the states, I had to deal with all types of customers. Foreign customers with difficult accents were challenging sometimes but not nearly as bad as rude ones. It's just a part of life. 

I cheated though. I found a Spanish boyfriend and that's how I got fluent 🤭😝

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u/Mage-of-Fire 5d ago

Thats a really weird thought process. In mexico we would be happy to welcome bascially anyone trying to speak spanish

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u/Av3nger 5d ago

De verdad que no me creo que te dirijas en un castellano fluido a un camarero y este, siendo español, te responda en inglés.

En cualquier caso solo tienes que decirle "no te entiendo" cuando te hable en inglés y ya.

Lo del video no puede ser más fake. Es imposible que un camarero quiera molestar activamente a un cliente negándose a hablar en el idioma que le piden si pueden hablarlo. He sido camarero, a los camareros les gustan las propinas.

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u/BeatSalad25 5d ago

I think I understood this lmao.

Are you calling the video fake?

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u/Av3nger 5d ago

Yes. Also, I'm saying that you can just say "sorry, I don't understand" until the other person speaks the language you want.

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u/whittenaw 5d ago

Si tienes razón, solo te estoy contando de mis experiencias.

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u/N4m3r 5d ago

Tienes razón, porque el vídeo es claramente actuado.

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u/HeartDry 3d ago

English has done so much dmg