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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4101 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 73 of 73 06 December 2013 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
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I do not enjoy to have English as my native language, because too play people speak it,
so one has to have a better command of a different language to avoid the switching than a non-English native speaker. For example, if one goes to Norway, Finland, or Québec, if an English speaker has A2 of Norwegian, Finnish, or French correspondingly, I have a feeling that the people in those countries will switch once they hear struggling with the language, or an Anglophone accent or pronunciation, instead of withholding English switching and continuing in that language. But someone who is A2 in those languages, but a native speaker of Fukien, Lithuanian, Spanish, Uyghur, Croatian, Japanese, Swahili, Frisian, etc. basically any other language, and provided that they do not know English, or their English is A1 at the very most, then I have a perception that the native speakers will be more inclined to continue in the language of the country, especially if that person's command of Norwegian, Finnish, or French is B1-B2 or more. In this case, switching to English will cause the native speaker from those countries even more confusion than continuing in their language. It has become annoying enough for me that to avoid English, I pretend to be a non- English speaker during all travels, and pretend that I am from somewhere like Spain, Chile, Singapore, Uruguay, etc. It certainly helps that Spanish is my strongest foreign language, and that I have partly Spanish ancestry to pretend some of these, in case they try to switch to Spanish. But, it might sound crazy, but I honestly prefer to struggle in a foreign country with its language during travels, or if I immigrated there, than to have English in case I struggle. It makes me more determined to learn better and more their language. If I take ten seconds to form an understand sentence with someone listening to me, it feels better than being hesitant to say anything because the other speaker shall switch into English, something for me that feels extremely embarassing, since it gives me a feeling that the other speaker feels that my command of the language is so poor that s/he must switch to my native language, whilst being in their own country. For the converse situation, there are many Spanish-speaking immigrants here in Manchester, mostly from Spain, but also Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, etc. Some that I have met struggled quite often with English, sometimes taking 15 seconds to finish the sentence, but I never switch to Spanish, which would alleviate the problem completely, because they need to learn by practising, and I do not want to have them feel like they need to avoid English. If they themselves ask to switch, then I would do so, but only on their prerogative. The only time that I switch to Spanish voluntarily is when I go to the Spanish restaurant for dinner, because I go there often and the staff, who are almost all Spanish- speaking, know me, so they do not mind. Edited by 1e4e6 on 06 December 2013 at 11:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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