who lives in another countrie and still can´t speak the language?Is it frustrating?

Answer 1

It can be frustrating to live and work in a country whose language and culture is different. Due to my career, I have been overseas over a decade and must've heard about 20 languages (Arabic, Hindi, Amharic, Swahili, Georgian, etc.)

I really made attempts when I was younger to really try to learn basics but I would soon forget these once I had moved on. Now I have lots of vocabularly words in random languages but not really able to communciate beyond survival in some of them. Gradually, I started focusing on the major languages of the world and if I was in a country where one of these was spoken, I'd would study that one but in other places, like Albania, I would only really try to learn the basics (please/thank you, yes/no, directions, numbers, food, etc.)

I realise that it's the countries where I did try to pick up the language that those are countries which I feel I know more about. Granted, it could also be that I was more interested in a country and that inspired me to learn the language more.

I move around a lot but if I were to live in a country for a long period (over a year), I would make a serious attempt to learn the language. You'll feel more a part of the culture, understand more, be able to talk to more people, etc.

Answer 2

ME! And yes it is frustrating, but I knew it would be like that when I came here. I live in Morocco and their primary language is Moroccan Arabic. Their second language is French, which I studied for 6 years in high school, but I graduated almost 16 years ago! I am slowly learning Moroccan words so I can speak a little, and I do remember some French, but generally speaking, if my husband is not with me, I am lost ;-) You will find some people here who do speak English, but it is about as good as my Moroccan Arabic. Life is an adventure...

Answer 3

Well, unless you are born talented with languages skills, don't have a cow with this issue.
I have lived around the world and if I had to pick up all the local tongues over the years, I would be a language professor by now.
I am native chinese and I speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghai already. But guess what ? There are at least a dozen more dialects to learn before I can even go about having verbal conversations freely just within China itself.

Answer 4

I've lived in Thailand for over three years and can only speak a little bit of Thai. My work is in English and most of my socializing is in English. It would be much nicer if I could speak better Thai, but I get by with just English just fine. No, it's not too frustrating. If I didn't speak English, I'd probably speak much better Thai by now. Fortunately for me, for now the universal language in the world is English.

Answer 5

I live in German, and I have been learning German for about 6 Months, but I'm not frustrated because I understand that It takes a while to learn a 2nd Language.

Answer 6

I am a filipino married to a French guy, So I am living in France now, At the beginning it was very difficult because I dont speak french, but after awhile of practicing my french is getting good and now I'm able to talk to french people who doesn't speak english at all.It will not be easy at the beginning but if you are really trying your best to be part of the society you live , you have to speak thier language since communication is definitely very useful in everyday lives;

Answer 7

I lived in Korea over a year and only learned about 20 words or so. It was very stressful when I got lost driving at night trying to get good directions. I finally made it to the gate of my base past cerfew but I didn't get in trouble once I explained what happened.

Answer 8

There are a lot of Mexican`s living here in the US that don`t speak English.The frustrating part is ,That a lot of them don`t even want to learn how to.I myself thought that that was part of moving to a different country.I myself had to start learning English as of 5th Grade in Germany.Of course at that time i didn't`t see no sense in learning this language.Well when i was 18 i met my husband and followed him to the US.I just don`t understand why some of the Mexicans don`t even want to try to learn English.It sure get`s frustrating at work,when i try to talk to them and they don`t understand.The US don`t help matters much either.The Mexican language is pretty well everywhere.When you try to make a phone -call it ask you if you would like it i Mexican.Well i sure don`t here nobody asking me if i want to hear it in German.I just thought,that if you move to another country, it was normal to have to learn the language.

Answer 9

Well it is frustrating for all of us that live in the U.S. and have all these immigrants that don*t speak English!!!! If you can*t guess I live in Southern Cali...

Answer 10

not really frustarting for those that reside in the country. i live in wales and we get a lot of people coming who cannot speak the languages here. ie english and welsh.