This is an issue for me in Mexican restaurants in the USA. I always speak English with them because they speak English to me. If I want to practice my Spanish in a restaurant setting, I will go to the Bolivian panadería or something.
But in Spain? That is very unusual. I have had people in customer service speak to me in English, of course, but if I respond in Spanish they never push back. This was when I was learning, of course, and I was very invested in immersion. These days I would probably respond in English if a camarero spoke to me in English. Let them have a turn.
Que alguien pueda llegar a creerse que este vídeo es real y no es ella misma hablando todo el rato me parece fascinante
I understand the frustration and the stalemates, I really do. But when you’re only interacting with youngish people that work in the service industry…these type of encounters are bound to happen. So many camareros are very overqualified for that role due to the general employment options all over Spain. Her visible frustration and half-sarcasm toward the Spanish here is just not the answer.
Girl is basically ordering paella in Malasaña, with her Macbook out, filming it, and then revealing her flimsy Spanish to the world. Idk what she wants.
La que le atendía le iba a decir la puta clave de wifi y esta pava le interrumpe en seco.
Arrived here in the early 2000s and it happened to me quite a few times, including with a flatmate who said ‘oh, great! I can practise my English with you…’
I dont know what Op wants with this, fake or just plain stupidity, but the waiters are clearly not Spanish, as per their accent. And it doesn’t make any sense to dont speak Spanish to someone talking to you in Spanish, in Spain
The waitress is not Spanish, her Spanish is much worse than that of the client, the problem is that she will be in a tourist area and the waitress only speaks English and some Spanish, that is why she does not want to speak in Spanish and when she tries it is much worse than the girl’s
This is just for her gram.. she wants to trigger them.
Customer service in English in Spain is very scarce. When they speak English, it’s very broken. Culturally, Spaniards don’t have much of a second language and when they have, English is not on the top.
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Yu no pik a pani, ai pik a inglis iç beter
las dos practican el idioma que quieren practicar. Es un win-win
It goes both ways. They want to practice too.
Completely fake video
Weird. As someone living in Spain when I speak in Spanish nobody has ever insisted on speaking in English. Almost like this is not real
es mi experiencia viviendo en barcelona la verdad. no 100% del tiempo. me da igual pero es algo muy curioso
Me recuerda a este video: https://youtu.be/oLt5qSm9U80?si=hj3jq8QKUErub1HS
This is an issue for me in Mexican restaurants in the USA. I always speak English with them because they speak English to me. If I want to practice my Spanish in a restaurant setting, I will go to the Bolivian panadería or something.
But in Spain? That is very unusual. I have had people in customer service speak to me in English, of course, but if I respond in Spanish they never push back. This was when I was learning, of course, and I was very invested in immersion. These days I would probably respond in English if a camarero spoke to me in English. Let them have a turn.
Que alguien pueda llegar a creerse que este vídeo es real y no es ella misma hablando todo el rato me parece fascinante
I understand the frustration and the stalemates, I really do. But when you’re only interacting with youngish people that work in the service industry…these type of encounters are bound to happen. So many camareros are very overqualified for that role due to the general employment options all over Spain. Her visible frustration and half-sarcasm toward the Spanish here is just not the answer.
Girl is basically ordering paella in Malasaña, with her Macbook out, filming it, and then revealing her flimsy Spanish to the world. Idk what she wants.
La que le atendía le iba a decir la puta clave de wifi y esta pava le interrumpe en seco.
Arrived here in the early 2000s and it happened to me quite a few times, including with a flatmate who said ‘oh, great! I can practise my English with you…’
I dont know what Op wants with this, fake or just plain stupidity, but the waiters are clearly not Spanish, as per their accent. And it doesn’t make any sense to dont speak Spanish to someone talking to you in Spanish, in Spain
The waitress is not Spanish, her Spanish is much worse than that of the client, the problem is that she will be in a tourist area and the waitress only speaks English and some Spanish, that is why she does not want to speak in Spanish and when she tries it is much worse than the girl’s
This is just for her gram.. she wants to trigger them.
Customer service in English in Spain is very scarce. When they speak English, it’s very broken. Culturally, Spaniards don’t have much of a second language and when they have, English is not on the top.
Barcelona?
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