For example, if you see an American spell the word "colour" or if you hear a foreigner speaking your native language.

Is it like nails on a chalk board to you, butchering the language?

Are you happy to see someone making the effort to communicate on your grounds?

Does it surprise you?

How do you feel about it/ react to it.


Me personally; I love it when I hear non-hispanics speaking the language (and I'm equally disgusted by hispanics in America that don't speak English. )

I was in DC and a German couple's child wanted to play with my puppy. We made small talk for a moment and I could tell right away they were from Germany. When parting, they said goodbye, and I said "tschus" and the woman got a little excited and said it back. When I was in Germany, my neighbors loved trying to speak English with me and would get so excited about it.

I think it's cool when I hear people make the effort. However, I do hate it when people go straight for diction, and don't bother to try to pronounce things properly.

I only ask bec. a friend of mine has gotten into the habit of calling me a "sheila." That and I like the word "poofter" and I want to use it.

Always appreciate somebody spelling correctly.

Oh hush!

i think its cute when a girl tries to pronounce the words im trying to teach her. She also thought it was cute when i try to speak hers even tho i sound like a dumbass.

damn, i miss her

Holla,

I appreciate it when people make the effort but when they unthinkingly pronounce words to fit their tongue I get super irritated, but sometimes its so funny. Must be a southern or country thing, but my Chef Instructor yesterday in class pronounced suviche (don't know how its spelled) as seveechee. He also says Pho as Fuu

was asked by a english(i think) couple about direction it sounded cute =D

I can't speak Tagalog, I make everything sound like Spanish.

just wondering, do you have a latina accent?

Only when I'm angry or excited. Or if I'm around a bunch of other latinos.

It's okay when they speak proper and decent Vietnamese but I get really pissed off when they're trying to say some dirty phrase in Vietnamese and think they're so good while in fact they pronounce the words all wrong.

i see it an act of humity when a foreginer tries to make an effort to communicate with me using my native language....
you see bred talks to me and when he does he can only say "bayot"
han2 was great with his new year's greetings.. i myself can't even say " have a merry christmas and a prosperous new year" in Waray...
and babelone stumbles a lot but now he's improving


actually the difference with how the Spaniards and the Americans colonized us...
just an observation..
the Spaniards learned our local languages here...
well they weren't trying to be humble.. just their way of conquering and othering us...
for the Americans on the other hand, they made us learn English and now we're all working on enslaving the language for our own convenience...

just sharing

I think it can be cool but it can also easily be insulting, here in America anyways.

sexy


as long as they do it to make an effort to connect and communicate not to ridicule

Uhh I'm generally quite pleased and amused. It's the last I can do, since I myself like speaking other languages.

There was a white guy on AF maybe 3 years back whose Tagalog was flawless. People didn't praise him― we treated him like any other Filipino. I think when people start going "oh, you're so good! but you're WHITE" it starts to get a little retarded. It's not like your race dictates what language you speak anyways. I'm typing in English right now....

But 'my' language is English. I'm used to people speaking English. Doesn't really cross my mind much. I live in a city where around 60% of the population has some sort of accent...

In my experience, Spanish speakers absolutely hate it when you try to speak their language. They give you what I call a "¿kien carajo te crees q eres?¿" look and te mira de arriba abajo como un idiota.. :S :S :S Consequently I HATE speaking Spanish and I only use it when forced or when I have a good feeling the person I'm talking to isn't going to be a jackass about it, which is usually NOT the case.

I don't see the point in having a bad attitude towards people learning your language. I guess so many people are learning Spanish these days that they're feeling like their property is being stepped on? Lol...

As do I. Although I'll admit it looks somewhat silly if I know the person is from America.

By chance I met a few men and women who can speak VN fluently. Very interesting when we talked in VNese.

DO U SOUND LIKE THIS:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uF_4Um_ESXg

Honestly I would find it odd and weird if I find anyone else speaking Tagalog, not because I'm too ignorant or prejudiced or anything like that, it's just that I don't see it very often and I'm just not used to it. But I wouldn't mind it at all once I get used to it.

I think it's pretty cool. There was this guy who grew up next door to my cousin's aunty and for some reason or another he learned to speak Khmer quite well (he's white). He can hold conversations as good as I can, possibly better and he can also read and write at a very basic level, meaning he can write your name in Khmer... but it'll take him like a minute or so. hehe. it's pretty cool.

as long as they don't say any bad words, i guess i'm "ookay" with them.

Flattered.

I'm not mexican, so no...

so ur of what nationality btw?

Oh God, not this again.

American, but Puerto Rican if you want to get specific.

The spanish speakers in this area love it when others speak spanish.

I have to say, at least %30 of the white americans in my office speak spanish fluently, it's awesome.

It pisses me off.

Why are Canadian Latinos so uppity for?

The only Spanish speaker I feel comfortable talking to is one of my best friends. Everyone else just gives me the cold shoulder. Oh, and I speak Spanish to the school librarian, who is Acadian. I speak to her in Spanish only because she says no one elseappreciates her Spanish either. She has the biggest Acadian accent ever. It hurts the ears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSJwdAXpFOk

Haha, love that guy. But he's gained weight.

He says burrito better than I do.

It's true. I met my first Latino (outside of a resort ) when I was 14.

But yea. Lots of Peruvians and Chileans and Colombians in Toronto.. around Yonge Street. No idea why. Yonge Street is full of those ethnics that you never ever see unless you live around Yonge Street. Jews, Koreans, Russians, Persians, Vietnamese people...

Russel Peters isn't funny anymore. ;__;

Are Russel Peters' jokes too offensive for you to handle?

nice

well, american english has always been a slang version of the original english language in the europeans. an english teacher told me some time ago in high school...I think.

for the most part, I've heard missionaries speaking fluent hmong. I'm unresponsive to it. if it's not fluent, I'm unresponsive to it also.

I'd like to think our english is more of a dialect than just slang. They have their own slang in England just like we have ours here.

No. They're just not funny enough for me to laugh?

Plus, he had some charming quality until WHITE PEOPLE overquoted his $hit and KILLED IT.

White people will NEVER understand how Chinese accents work, so they should jsut stop trying. All they do is perpetuate the stereotype that they're awkward and cheesy.

Do you mix your Ys and your Js like this guy is saying? @6:12

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3M1aszjvqo4

LOL

It's not his fault if white people are trying to kill his jokes.

Do you know any YouTube videos of white people trying to do a Chinese accent?

Capepassssaaa amigo all is amiciable

LOL, I'm not mexican and I'm not a FOB either.

It's true though, some hispanics, we pronounce stuff like "Me jamo" instead of "me yamo." I couldn't tell you why.

i think its good if they are trying to make a honest effort to try and speak it correctly and learn the language, even if all they want is to learn how to ask "where is the bathroom?".

i just cant stand it when when dudes go around spitting "ni hao ma", "knoichiwa", or "anyohaseo" to any girl that looks asian and expects them to drop their panties.

I have no problem with accents for the most part so I don't really see it as a problem. At least they are trying to learn another language. LDS Missionaries speak better Hmong than I do. It trips me out every time. But then again, I did meet a Hmong guy with a very heavy Southern drawl. That was STRANGE indeed