Foreigners talking about you in their own language

Fago!

Ever get the feeling that foreign people are making fun of you in their own language - right in front of you?

Right now I'm in work in the canteen. There's a group of eastern european coworkers at the next table and they'd talking in their own language for a bit, then they'd look over at me or one of the other lads and start laughing. Very unsettling.

WonderWoman!

Stop being paranoid

smk89

co rasistą, założę się, że ma mały penis

The King of Moo

Is amadáin é an OP!!!!

:pac:

Kya1976

I do this with my Swedish friends all the time, it's kinda fun.:D:pac:

pablomakaveli

If Irish was taught better in schools you'd be able to look at the foreign lads, make a comment in Irish and then laugh your arses off.

You could still say something like "Is maith liom cáca milis" and laugh. It's not like they'd no any better anyway.

Fago!

Kya1976 wrote: »

I do this with my Swedish friends all the time, it's kinda fun.:D:pac:

I hate you.

Kya1976

Fago! wrote: »

I hate you.

:eek:The feeling is mutual.

policarp

Kneecap 'em. . .

Mickeroo

THey probably just fancy you OP.

stupidusername

Kya1976 wrote: »

I do this with my Swedish friends all the time, it's kinda fun.:D:pac:

Seanchai

Fago! wrote: »

Ever get the feeling that foreign people are making fun of you in their own language - right in front of you?

Right now I'm in work in the canteen. There's a group of eastern european coworkers at the next table and they'd talking in their own language for a bit, then they'd look over at me or one of the other lads and start laughing. Very unsettling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-IV2uqUyw

(starts at 2.42)

mackg

Yeah I get this from time to time. Best way to deal with it is start muttering to yourself then after a minute of that look at them and start laughing hysterically.

Kya1976

stupidusername wrote: »

After I teach you Swedish you can start joining in:pac:

bigwormbundoran

I was in Gweedore yesterday, and im 100% sure the people around me speaking in Irish were plotting my downfall

HalloweenJack

Try living in a country where you don't speak the language!

I get that feeling all the time.

stupidusername

Kya1976 wrote: »

After I teach you Swedish you can start joining in:pac:

or maybe I'll learn over the next while and secretly i'll know what you're saying about me when you're talking to them! :eek:

Colilfc

smk89 wrote: »

co rasistą, założę się, że ma mały penis

tak, powiedziałbym, że jest malutki :pac:

oppenheimer1

Yeah it happens sometimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5H64OOkeXA

Immaculate Pasta

bigwormbundoran wrote: »

I was in Gweedore yesterday, and im 100% sure the people around me speaking in Irish were plotting my downfall

Wish they'd feck off back to their own country! :mad:

Malari

Next time they are chatting in native close by, turn sharply and look at one of them, then turn back quickly (as if you've 'forgotten' you don't understand). With luck, you will have good timing and have looked just at an interesting point in the conversation, and they will start to suspect you speak their language after all...

Saila

they are plotting your murder OP, "*polish polish polish* hawhahawwwwww" *looks at you*

better kill them first :eek:

Tragamin2k2

theres a little asian shop by the redlight in amsterdam and im convinced the chaps workin there take the piss outa every customer to each other

Mike 1972

pablomakaveli wrote: »

You could still say something like "Is maith liom cáca milis cóicín agus striapacha" and laugh.

FYP !

spurious

The world revolves around me. It couldn't have been you they were talkiing about - it was me.
They have nothing else to talk about you know.

The Scientician

Just turn around to them and shout "DURKAH DURKAH JIHAD!"

Eat your feces when they look over again.

Will soon shut them up.

Birneybau

The doll is trying to kill me and the toaster's been laughing at me!

dj jarvis

you should find out what " i have dug a grave for you all " is in their lingo - say it to them - wink and walk away whistling the imperial march from star wars


or you could put your clothes on and they will stop laughing at you

i would go for option 1

stupidusername

I tore ligament in my knee before, but it happened while I was out in a nightclub, and so the staff panicked, and the girls that were dealing with me were speaking to each other in polish, I was a little drunk so of course I said why are you talking to each other in another language!? they said it's just easier. i'm sure they were really saying I'd fat knees. bitches.

kfallon

I hate when they do it on TV, an English speaking show but some guy insists on speaking 'foreign' and they don't put up subtitles, you have no real idea whats going on and it's infuriating. This guy was the worst for it imo.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auXrmn5uqOk

:pac:

Killer Pigeon

I feel the same way. I mean every time I go abroad to non-English speaking countries I hate having to put up with people having the audacity to go around and speak in their own language, they should learn a bit of English.

WonderWoman!

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I feel the same way. I mean every time I go abroad to non-English speaking countries I hate having to put up with people having the audacity to go around and speak in their own language, they should learn a bit of English.

I do hope thats sarcasm

danniemcq

i've been going out with a fluent irish speaker for the last 4 and a bit years, when i go to her place and everyone is talking irish i get really paranoid...

although i am a bastard so its probably justified

Batsy

Fago! wrote: »

Ever get the feeling that foreign people are making fun of you in their own language - right in front of you?

I know they aren't foreigners, but the Welsh do have an annoying tendency to speak to English people in Welsh and to other Welsh speakers in English.

This happened to me at McDonald's in Cardiff in 1998 when I was there for for a few days (I can't even remember why I was there but I stayed in a B&B right next to the Millennium Stadium when the stadium was under construction). I was in a queue and the numpties behind the counter were speaking to the Welsh people in front of me in English. But then when I was served I was spoken to in Welsh when they discovered that I am English even though I couldn't understand a word I was saying.

I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for the fact that the only reason I went to McDonald's in the first place was because a Welshman stole a piece of my beef.

Oranage2

Depends op, are they looking and then pointing in your direction then laughing?

ShadowHearth

I am foreigner, its like we have nothing else to tal about, only **** about Irish in our own language....

Alot of people are way to paranoid about this.

I love when few managers or some other who thing they are better then you and tell you: you are not allowed to talk your own language, talk in English between yourselfs... I then start talking even more In my own language just to be a dick.

FruitLover

WonderWoman! wrote: »

I do hope thats sarcasm

No, he's definitely entirely serious...

Haelium

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I am foreigner, its like we have nothing else to tal about, only **** about Irish in our own language....

Alot of people are way to paranoid about this.

I love when few managers or some other who thing they are better then you and tell you: you are not allowed to talk your own language, talk in English between yourselfs... I then start talking even more In my own language just to be a dick.

So wait, you know that it makes Irish people uncomfortable and your manager tells you to speak English and you refuse? Has it occurred to you that perhaps this is how xenophobia arises?

risteard7

Fago! wrote: »

Ever get the feeling that foreign people are making fun of you in their own language - right in front of you?

Right now I'm in work in the canteen. There's a group of eastern european coworkers at the next table and they'd talking in their own language for a bit, then they'd look over at me or one of the other lads and start laughing. Very unsettling.

How dare you talk about or criticise foreigners on boards they are more important than you even though your from Ireland!Thats the impression i get any time there mentioned here anyway.

saywhatyousee

Batsy wrote: »

Welshman stole a piece of my beef.

:pac::pac:

The King of Moo

risteard7 wrote: »

How dare you talk about or criticise foreigners on boards they are more important than you even though your from Ireland!Thats the impression i get any time there mentioned here anyway.

I've never seen anyone say that people from outside Ireland are more important than people who were born here.

Any examples?

The Snipe

Talk about them in Irish, or Learn some of the iinsulting words in their language so that you'll know!

Or hell, just secretly learn their language and then some day randomly start talking to them in it if they are slagging you off!

ShadowHearth

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I am foreigner, its like we have nothing else to tal about, only **** about Irish in our own language....

Alot of people are way to paranoid about this.

I love when few managers or some other who thing they are better then you and tell you: you are not allowed to talk your own language, talk in English between yourselfs... I then start talking even more In my own language just to be a dick.

Most people who speak another language do use it to talk crap about people, even if it's just the odd time. Why don't you find some manners and stop talking in a language your coworkers don't understand? It's unprofessional and rude, unless nobody else is around to hear it. I talk to our receptionist in Portuguese because I like to practise, but if someone else comes in, we always switch back to English.

ShadowHearth

Haelium wrote: »

So wait, you know that it makes Irish people uncomfortable and your manager tells you to speak English and you refuse? Has it occurred to you that perhaps this is how xenophobia arises?

Emmm I am talking to a person in my own language about my own personal stuff. Why should anyone give a **** what I talk about? I love to live in Ireland, I am obeying laws and even take some of the culture.

I don't go to Irish and say: I am Lithuanian! I am unique! You should respect me for who I am and be more kind! I won't learn English, because I want to keep my own national feeling and bla bla bla etc. I am here in Ireland, I am thankful to be here and I will play by Irish rules, but some things are just pure stupid.

I talk with other Lithuanians in Lithuanian because it's easier and fester for me, if someone has some sort of paranoia and low self respect so he forces us to talk in English about my day off with a friend, then they can go and **** themselves no matter what nationality they are.

That happened not often, but it was told by pure arrogant jerks in the first place. 99% if Irish people I know are spot on. Lovely people, who won't give a **** what language you talk.

The King of Moo

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Emmm I am talking to a person in my own language about my own personal stuff. Why should anyone give a **** what I talk about? I love to live in Ireland, I am obeying laws and even take some of the culture.

I don't go to Irish and say: I am Lithuanian! I am unique! You should respect me for who I am and be more kind! I won't learn English, because I want to keep my own national feeling and bla bla bla etc. I am here in Ireland, I am thankful to be here and I will play by Irish rules, but some things are just pure stupid.

I talk with other Lithuanians in Lithuanian because it's easier and fester for me, if someone has some sort of paranoia and low self respect so he forces us to talk in English about my day off with a friend, then they can go and **** themselves no matter what nationality they are.

That happened not often, but it was told by pure arrogant jerks in the first place. 99% if Irish people I know are spot on. Lovely people, who won't give a **** what language you talk.

I think most Irish people living in a non-English speaking country would do the same. I'd make every effort to speak the native language as well as I could if the conversation involved locals.

But if there's a group of Irish people all together talking among themselves, most people in that situation would speak English.
I'd find it hard not to, unless I still wasn't happy with my level of the local language and wanted to improve it a lot by practising as much as possible.

efb

even the immigrants have more mates than the OP lol!

Haelium

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Emmm I am talking to a person in my own language about my own personal stuff. Why should anyone give a **** what I talk about? I love to live in Ireland, I am obeying laws and even take some of the culture.

I don't go to Irish and say: I am Lithuanian! I am unique! You should respect me for who I am and be more kind! I won't learn English, because I want to keep my own national feeling and bla bla bla etc. I am here in Ireland, I am thankful to be here and I will play by Irish rules, but some things are just pure stupid.

I talk with other Lithuanians in Lithuanian because it's easier and fester for me, if someone has some sort of paranoia and low self respect so he forces us to talk in English about my day off with a friend, then they can go and **** themselves no matter what nationality they are.

That happened not often, but it was told by pure arrogant jerks in the first place. 99% if Irish people I know are spot on. Lovely people, who won't give a **** what language you talk.

I don't think anybody cares what language you speak usually, but if you're in the workplace and a manager tells you to speak English you should just do what he says.

Doom

Fago! wrote: »

Ever get the feeling that foreign people are making fun of you in their own language - right in front of you?

Right now I'm in work in the canteen. There's a group of eastern european coworkers at the next table and they'd talking in their own language for a bit, then they'd look over at me or one of the other lads and start laughing. Very unsettling.

Blast them with piss:cool:

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIzFqOxplV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSuJ9b96w9U

ShadowHearth

The King of Moo wrote: »

I think most Irish people living in a non-English speaking country would do the same. I'd make every effort to speak the native language as well as I could if the conversation involved locals.

But if there's a group of Irish people all together talking among themselves, most people in that situation would speak English.
I'd find it hard not to, unless I still wasn't happy with my level of the local language and wanted to improve it a lot by practising as much as possible.

This is the thing:

If an Irish involved in conversation I go pure English. Even if out of 4 people 1 is Irish, I will talk in English.

Now if 2 of us talking in our language and then Irish just stands somewhere near by, who is not part of our conversation, why we should talk im English?!

Funny enough I work around alot of polish people, I understand very very very little in polish, I don't feel uncomfortable when they talk to each other in polish. I just go on with my work, I have enough **** to do, then wonder if they talk about my fat arse or how I am a gamer nerd or how they had good few drinks last night...