Just a Thought

[AnnabeI Lee]

Just a Thought

As some of you know I am now visiting the "Holy" land, and my friends and I have developed a new game. They speak in broken up English and I reply. It's so much fun when people think you're a tourist and that you can't understand what they are saying! You should all try it some time.

 

[SpyKid]

It reminds me

How my sister and I liked to speak Spanish in public, so people would think we're tourists. When we once arrived at some church (As a part of a family excursion, and it was in Israel) I spoke Spanish to the tour guide, and he began explaining me something in Spanish too

(Somehow I've even understood him). [For the record, I live in Israel and Spanish is not my native language...]​

 

[lilach84]

one of my favorate games

I don't know why, But only in Israel people turn around to look at you when they hear you speak a different language (and this applies to arabic as well, but not to Russian) I don't think this is the case in other countries...

 

[tals56]

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Israeli pepole don't turn around when they hear Russian because we're already normal to that... few years ago it wasn't normal at all,so a lot of pepole turned around when they heard Russian but about Arabic...it's kinda diffrent... we're very normal to hear Arabic language,but still we turn around I don't know why,but it's normal...but still wierd...

 

[flutter girl]

Don't try to deny it...

People turn around when they hear Arabic because it makes them feel nervous.

 

[tals56]

did I say that pepole don't

turn around when they hear Arabic? read my comment again...

 

[flutter girl]

How's that related?

I agreed with the notion that people do turn around, but I gave the reason which nobody wanted to give. It should've said "the reason is"

 

[ArieIO5]

"Other countries"

Isn't "other countries" a bit too general? I'm sure you realize that there are lots and lots of other countries and that they're all different... I think whether or not people will turn around when hearing a foreign language depends on just how foreign it is to them, i.e. the diversity of the population in a specific place. In NYC, for example, no one would be remotely surprised to hear Spanish or even Chinese, and that's for the same reason that we've gotten used to Russian. But if any foreigner was to walk the streets of some city in, say, Nebraska or Texas or Idaho...? I mean, even if no one would ACTUALLY turn their heads to get a good glance of the source, I'm certain it would seem curious and even weird to some.​

 

[tals56]

I don't think that in other countri

countries it's diffrent, mabey less...but still pepole will turn around when pepole in England\other places in europe hears forigen language will they turn around? the answer is yes,they will turn around and listen mabey they will look on you only one time,but they'll listen. I don't understand why everyone is thinking that in other countries everything is totlal diffrent! if in Israel we walk on earth,that doesn't mean that in Germany pepole fly! in other countries it's the same...mabey in somethings it's a bit diffrent because it's still other culture.

 

[flutter girl]

Do you feel a bit

like you're arguing with yourself?

 

[tals56]

Nope,why?

 

[ArieIO5]

"By "different

... I meant that all countries are different from EACH OTHER, meaning that you can't generalize all the "other countries" and put them in comparison to Israel. So if you had read it with more concentration, you'd have seen that my message was more or less the same as yours. But anyway, thanks for the reinforcement... ​