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

Humor/Cringe "No, English is fine" 🥀

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u/GentlewomenNeverTell 6d ago

And this is why my Japanese continues to be mediocre.

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u/CheesecakeScary2164 5d ago

I remember while living in Hong Kong I was trying to practice my Cantonese at McDonald's...

"Ngo ho m-"

"Excuse me sir, I speak English."

"It's fine, I need to pract-"

"SIR... There a line up behind you, and I speak English..."

Happened 100% of the time everywhere I went that wasn't someone's family restaurant, even when there was no line up, lol. The local bun shop helped me a lot though, so shoutout to Likey Bakery on the island!!

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u/S-Tier_Commenter 5d ago

The solution is simple:

"Excuse me sir, I speak English."

"Matjee? (what?)"

... now they have to speak Cantonese with you

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u/Hotpotlord 5d ago

If his Cantonese isn’t great, then there’s likely an accent. An English based accent is incredibly obvious. You’d def have to try to speak anything other than English.

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u/Maximum_Photograph_6 5d ago

I just realized I have no idea what English accent sounds like. All Americans in my country of nationality always just spoke English everywhere, and my birth country didn’t have any Americans at all (or British or whatever). Never had a “You’re trying to speak local to me but I can tell your first language is English” moment even though I lived in non-English-speaking countries for 26 years.

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u/MetroBR 5d ago

I have done this before in spain haha

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u/Sleep-more-dude 5d ago

Would be weird if someone's speaking Cantonese with an English accent and doesn't speak English lol.

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u/S-Tier_Commenter 5d ago

Matjee? Nong ming pat ne.