Ok, so I am a foreigner who now lives in Denmark. While I do take evening classes to learn Danish, my level of danish is just not sufficient to speak the language with local Danes yet.
Funnily enough, there is this older women from the running club that I go to (she is around 60 years old probably) who insist that she only speaks Danish to everyone there whenever we are in social situation in these weekly training. Not just that, it is even when the conversation we are having is in English she would go out of her way to reply back in Danish to switch over to her mother tongue.
Sure, I will learn Danish and that is what I’m currently doing. But until then it is just not possible for me to do that no matter how insistent one is to me.
In the end of the day, I don’t expect her and I to be friends. She doesn’t owe me anything, nor do I owe her anything. And that’s totally fine.
However, this does get a bit awkward and isolating for me, so please if anybody has any advice to better deal/cope with this I’d loved to hear it.