mans that speak more than one language, whats the weirdest situation you ever been on?

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1. When u are talking with someone in language that u find your slf in other language , ex u talking in French than u fall in English and u keep talking in English lol

2. Easily top one:

   I’m having a perfectly fine conversation with a Dutchman in Dutch, but as soon as that person finds out that I’m not local – they switch to English.

   And then same people complain on the interwebs that expats don’t even try to learn the local language.

   Every single Dutch person I’ve met is guilty of that. Guys, I can speak reasonably good Dutch and I would be able to speak even better if you would just let me do it and not switch to English!

   Probably top two:

   Lesson learned – never greet Japanese people first when hiking. You try to be nice and say “konnichiwa” (hi) – next thing you know they enthusiastically try to explain something while you turn red and try to mumble “sumimasen, nihongo wa sukoshi dekimasu” (sorry, I speak very little Japanese).

3. Once I met a girl online and we decided to meet up. Except it was her and her two friends for some reason. While we were hanging out she was on the phone arranging a booty call with some guy and she left. I drove one friend home and somehow ended up back at my place with the other friend. She was fairly unattractive and kept trying to convince me to kiss her. I kept refusing and eventually drove her home too. Never heard from any of the three ever again.

   Oh I speak French and English.

4. When a word in one language is something offensive in the other.

   As an example “I observe” in Hebrew sounds exactly the same as the french slang for “my d1ck”. The French tourist who was within earshot was offended.