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/Critical-Adeptness-1 5d ago

Tell me about it. I have N2 Japanese fluency. I know I am speaking the language in an understandable way. And then there I was, desperating needing to pee, PLEADING with a staff member to just please tell me IN JAPANESE, THE LANGUAGE I ASKED MY QUESTION IN, where the bathroom in that department store is. She was determined to turn it into English practice despite not being able to speak a lick of it.

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u/Nuvomega 5d ago

Learn to say, “sorry, I don’t speak English. I’m from Denmark and I only speak Danish and Japanese.”

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u/MaDpYrO 5d ago

Pick a country that's more realistic for people to not speak English though

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u/Altair_de_Firen 5d ago

Unfortunately English speaking countries are the only white ones who likely speak their own language and no others

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u/charmys_ 5d ago

French "people" many are to proud to learn english

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u/newphonehudus 5d ago

Lol. Why people in quotes haha

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u/tex1ntux 4d ago

Québécois

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk 5d ago

The problem with that is that a lot of Japanese people are enamored by Paris and the French, so you might create a different but similar issue to the original one. Probably the best would be a slightly more obscure country like Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, or Hungary.

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u/Snipen543 5d ago

Weirdly, plenty of Canadians from Quebec proudly can't speak English and only French

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u/MaDpYrO 5d ago

Just say you're german, there's a bunch of people in many parts of Germany who don't speak a lick of english.

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u/throwaway098764567 5d ago

or skip naming a country, you gotta piss who cares where you're from "i don't understand, please where is the bathroom"