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

Languages Aren’t Secret Codes

I was on holiday in Moscow, and in the subway I heard another tourist tell his mate, in my native tongue, “You know, when we speak Dutch, nobody here will understand a word of it. It’s kind of a code language here!”

To which I replied, “Yeah, about that. It’s not as effective as you might think.”

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