Do you feel loved and threatened at the same time? A duality? Is it the most wise to wait and stall and think before responding?
2007-03-10 17:51:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No, I find this premise perplexing as I can't see why you would have an emotional response. When some addresses me in German I speak to them in about all the German I know which roughly translate too "I'm sorry I don't speak German, do you have an English German dictionary?" - I've learned this sentence in a number of languages.
2007-03-10 18:01:46 · answer #1 · answered by Noota Oolah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't feel threatened. Actually it's an incentive to learn another language. If I don't understand, I say (and my German is not very good) "nie sprechen sie Deutch" = I don't speak German. After that I bought some language tapes so I could talk a little Gerrman...
2007-03-10 18:01:43 · answer #2 · answered by idahdespida 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The following quotation is from a shorthand transcript.
"This is the first demand we must raise and do [reversal of the Versailles Treaty provisions]: that our people be set free, that these chains be burst asunder, that Germany be once again captain of her soul and master of her destinies, together with all those who want to join Germany. (Applause)
And the fulfillment of this first demand will then open up the way for all the other reforms. And here is one thing that perhaps distinguishes us from you [Austrians] as far as our programme is concerned, although it is very much in the spirit of things: our attitude to the Jewish problem.
For us, this is not a problem you can turn a blind eye to-one to be solved by small concessions. For us, it is a problem of whether our nation can ever recover its health, whether the Jewish spirit can ever really be eradicated. Don't be misled into thinking you can fight a disease without killing the carrier, without destroying the bacillus. Don't think you can fight racial tuberculosis without taking care to rid the nation of the carrier of that racial tuberculosis. This Jewish contamination will not subside, this poisoning of the nation will not end, until the carrier himself, the Jew, has been banished from our midst. (Applause)
Source: D Irving, The War Path: Hitler's Germany 1933-1939. Papermac, 1978, p.xxi
2007-03-10 18:14:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'm able to in basic terms talk for myself. maximum Brits are uncovered to many forms of English via television, videos and encounters with English conversing human beings from many corners of the international. Accents do no longer problem me and that i'm able to understand that when an Australian says he's going for a Barbie, he could desire to no longer the toy save to purchase an outrageously proportioned doll. I additionally recognize that when a Nigerian in my place of work asks the place he can 'ease himself', he skill he needs to bypass to the bathing room. I even have in specific circumstances been surprised that a guy or woman from the u . s . a . would not recognize what a lorry is, or says which you will no longer instruct infants the word 'café'. (I nonetheless do no longer recognize what the concern with this word is).
2016-10-01 22:28:12 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This situation would probably never come up because I'm Asian and somehow people assume that I don't even speak English.
I don't see why you should have such emotional struggle when people speak German to you. They probably just see you as their own, to be friendly. It's a compliment.
I'm often greeted with Korean when I shop at Korean stores. I usually just nod and smile. :) Sometimes disturb them by saying "sorry?"
2007-03-10 18:04:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. If the person doesn't realize fairly quickly that I can't understand what the hell he's saying then he probably has a mental illness. Nothing threatening there.
2007-03-10 17:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
??? Why would I feel torn about a foreigner speaking to me???
I'd neither feel loved nor threatened. My feelings about them would depend on the conternt of their conversation, not what language they speak.
2007-03-10 18:00:30 · answer #7 · answered by girlsincamelot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well here in Canada when someone speaks to me in French I usually tell them I don't speak french and if they speak English, we go from there. If not, part ways.
2007-03-10 17:55:14 · answer #8 · answered by pacific_crush 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh..no. My fiance's German relatives accidentally do this to me all the time. Tell them they owe you a beer! They see you as one of their own now! ;)
2007-03-10 17:57:31 · answer #9 · answered by reginachick22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nein, nix sprechen ze deutch.
2007-03-10 18:04:14 · answer #10 · answered by RyRy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋