Bilingual People Share Their Greatest “I Didn’t Know You Spoke the Language” Stories

“All of Us Speak English”

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As an American who works abroad, it always baffles me how some American tourists seem to think that nobody else in the world speaks English. The one that comes to mind was at a train stop where some tourists who were clearly American were talking about how smelly everyone in the country was.

Tourist A mentioned that Tourist B should keep her voice down, and Tourist B replied, “Why? None of them know what I’m saying.” A guy standing behind them piped up with something like, “Pretty much all of us speak English.” The tourists faces dropped and they were silent until the train came. It was excellent. This was in Argentina, by the way. raddlesnake

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