I think my favorite experience with an American was when I said “I’m from Finland” and she said “Oh so do you speak Scandinavian?” and I swear to god nothing will ever surpass that moment
Actually I fucking lied I’m pretty sure to peak was when my mother was telling a cashier in a target that we couldn’t wait two weeks because we were on vacation and we lived in The Netherlands and she said “The Netherlands? you mean that peter pan place?”
i went to summer school in england when i was like 14 and there were some american people and when i said i was italian they started speaking spanish, and when i was like “hey i don’t know spanish can u pls speak english” they were like “but…. you’re from italy… do you not speak spanish in europe?” “No, we speak italian in italy” “oh, that’s a language?”
one time I frustrated this girl so much at one point by not speaking English around her to avoid conversations with her because she was a terrible person and she said “GO BACK TO FRANCE” after snapping one day, entirely convinced Italy was in France
Asdfaddahsd this reminds me of a girl in my geography class when i was in the USA who believed Paris was the capital city of Italy. She also couldn’t be convinced that Poland is a real country because she said it was made up for a movie.
I am an American and it pains me how many of us are like this. I have an M.A. in Spanish and these are actual things other Americans have said to me that have come up because I speak Spanish:
– “Now… Spanish… that’s what they speak in Mexico right?” (She seemed way too proud that she was right)
– Distant relative: “You studied abroad in Spain? What language do they speak there?”
Me: ….Spanish….
Him: Well how was I supposed to know? It could have been Italian for all I know
-“Do people in Spain dress like that (flamenco dresses) all the time?”
-I also used to work in a call center and someone once transferred me a Portuguese speaker because “close enough”
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