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Just left Walmart and noticed there was A LOT of Hispanic people there. Mostly adults with a lot of kids probably getting back to school supplies. Didn’t necessarily bother me but I noticed annoyance on some people’s faces because they were only speaking Spanish. I went to the self check out and a lady needed help with the machine but the cashier couldn’t understand what she was saying.

One lady mumbled to herself that if they could speak English then it wouldn’t be holding everyone else up.

I work in a school building and I know a lot of parents from past work experiences did not like that we sent forms home that had both English and Spanish on there instead of just English (not where I teach now but just in the past). We have a lot of English Language Learners in schools these days and the number goes up every year. Like one of my class bells has 31 kids and 11 of them do not speak English fluently. Most speak Spanish but I have some African and Asian language speakers in there. I have to figure out how to teach them even though I’m not trained to do so.

So does it bother you?

If so please feel free to explain. 😂 😆

I’ve just seen this too many times, and my voice carries.

You simply can't assume that others on a train don’t speak the language you’re speaking on an international train.

Even amongst family, my favourite. My Mom’s older siblings knew that I studied their language and lived abroad speaking it daily for years.

But they thought I couldn’t clearly discern their dialect, the one I grew up hearing, from standard dialect that I learned.

I let my uncle go on and on about my deceased father, myself and my future before finally answering him in English.

He didn’t say anything bad about my father or myself but he felt betrayed. I was I the next room and I’d spoken with him in the standard language the night before.

MY QUESTION IS why did he think it was okay to converse in a secret language?

Turns out I understood the dialect, I just wasn’t a proficient speaker.

I had already given him my Anglo translations to many sentences so he knew I understood him. But he thought once he sped it up and what not that I wouldn’t be able to comprehend.

Shake those dice, you lose.

Unless you speak a rare tribal tongue, maybe don’t risk it?

You can't judge the languages one speaks by appearance.