Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages

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• Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I did and the results were kinda hilarious.

  I was working as a technician at the time and went to a theater I wasn’t familiar with, I needed to use the bathroom and saw a few people cleaning so I asked them if the knew where the bathroom was.

  “No ingles, no ingles!”

  Oh good I can try my Spanish! “Donde estas el bano?”

  “No ingles, no ingles!”

  …but I’m speaking Spanish now… Lol

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  • psoul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s the hardest part of gaining conversational skills: being ok with not being understood, ok being laughed at a little bit. If you’re afraid of speaking the language you’ll never progress.

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