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

Thanks For the Compliment

I was standing in line at a Subway on my university campus when I see these two Arab guys standing in the same line and generally just trash talking about everyone in the line thinking no one spoke Arabic.

Little did they know that I have lived in the Middle East for about 10 years and learned fluent Arabic while I was there. When the time came to trash talk me, luckily for them, they just commented on how nice and spiky my hair is.

Turned to them and thanked them for the compliment. Needless to say, they were shocked and shut up for the whole rest of their wait in line.

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