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multilingual redditors what is your they didn't realize I spoke their language story was on both ends as a deaf person myself on one side this one time the cashiers at a store realized I was deaf and so started talking to each other about me when they thought I wasn't looking they also didn't know I had my hearing aids and could lip read their comments weren't anything too negative it was mostly the typical comments about deaf people by people who were completely clueless about how deafness worked when I brought my stuff to the checkout I kindly reminded them that it's a pretty bad idea to talk about somebody thinking that they can't understand what you're talking about because the chances are that they do in fact understand what you're talking about the look on their faces were completely classic on the other side one time my best friend and I were people watching at the mall and we randomly started rating the men around us in sign language of course there was this one viewed sitting near us and we start writing his looks and his body I said that he looked like he had a nice butt and that his eyes were really beautiful with the color of the deep ocean so I rated him a tenth hence then he came over to us and then told us in sign language thanks for the compliments ladies you really made my day haha we were both so shocked and embarrassed her I sort of have the reverse of this I'm a white man from the UK and whilst visiting Berlin was sat on on the s-band facing her older also white lady on the other side of the carriage there were four gentlemen who were clearly Eastern European / Middle Eastern I think they were speaking Turkish but I'm not sure the lady turns to me and says in German something along the lines of measurement in indolence prêt and we touch shameful in Germany we speak German loud enough they were supposed to hear clearly looking for me to agree with her to which I replied in my very broken German it's been English mean due choice says clutched or I'm English my German is very bad her face went bright red this happened to my brother and father while they were travelling some dude walks up to my brother thinking he is a local and starts talking to him in Farsi when he realized my brother didn't understand started saying really rude things about him and my dad being stupid my dad fluent in Farsi comes over and rips this toll a second one the dude feign being apologetic and made excuses for his attitude as he was walking away he started muttering more foul things about them but in Turkish this time dad speaks Turkish as well and proceeds to rip him a third a-hole TL DR there is a man with three a-holes I was on a tour bus with my grandmother going to a luau in Hawaii my grandmother spoke fluent Italian as both her parents were Italian immigrants to young women behind us was speaking to each other in Italian probably assuming none of the other tourists could understand them my grandmother told me I don't speak but a few words in Italian that they were insulting everyone on the bus she let it go on awhile but just kept getting angrier and angrier as the ride went off finally she turned around and told them off telling them they should be ashamed of themselves for being so rude they looked so embarrassed and apologized to her profusely getting told off by a grandmother on a tour bus was not what they expected hearing girl here I was looking for something in target and asked an employee for help she was busy stocking shelves and I kept trying to verbally get her attention when she finally noticed me she mouthed I'm deaf I set my stuff down to free up my hands introduced myself and asked her where what I was looking for was in American Sign Language her face completely lit up and I'll never forget it communication is major for deaf people because they are unfortunately often excluded from the hearing world which is probably why this lady reacted the way she did though this was minor it made a huge impact on me this instance made me fall in love with sign language all over again and realize how communication is a basic human right that many people do not have all have limited access to was in Germany and a middle school teacher asked me to come in as a guest for one of her English classes the teacher introduced me I said hello and that I was from the US and happy to be in their class the teacher said so do you have any questions in English for an American what do you think an American is like one of the kids near the front says in German kind of under his breath but definitely loud enough that most of the class can hear fat and stupid the kids laugh the teacher turns bright red I don't know what to do so I just say of course many Americans can speak German in German the kid almost shit himself he looked like a baby deer that had wandered on stage at abeyance concert I thought he was just being a dick and had intended me to understand what he was saying apparently though he actually hadn't thought through that an American in Germany in their language class might actually speak their language the people of the Chinese food place on my campus spoke Chinese to the door exchange students but even though I spoke Chinese I just always spoke English to them since I have an accent when I speak Chinese but one day I got all meat no rice since I had a rice maker at home and when I was paying the lady says to the person beside her fat ass once meat no rice and I responded in Chinese actually I have rice at home they didn't charge me for the order and started giving me a bit extra whenever I go there edit didn't seal the replies but everyone saying they probably weren't saying it in an insulting way is correct they were saying fat ass more along the lines of fatty or tubby bonzi I think that's the phonetic spelling of what they said not really sure how to spell a tbh I went to a psychiatric emergency ward once and asked for help and if they were comfortable to speak English I understand Danish but have a hard time making myself understandable in it and didn't really feel like an idiot at a crucial time of my life I stayed there for 4 days without anyone realizing I knew what they were saying about me right in front of me two of the nurses thought I was cute one doctor thought I was lying all the time a patient thought I was a spy for the staff a lot happened in those four days it made my stay way more enjoyable than it should have been a lady on the bus was being a bitch and slagging people off in greek until she got to me she was being excessively nasty about my chip mail varnish I don't know either maybe she was having a bad day as soon as I clocked it I turned around and looked her dead in the eye with my very Greek face and she stopped she then sat in the seat in front of me where I sat and called my mom also Greek who I had a conversation with for the duration of the bus journey about the route lady who slagged my nails off because she thought I couldn't understand in Greek it was delicious we had a large family reunion dinner at a restaurant and we were all sharing stories my funny uncle was telling us how he used to pretend he was deaf and his sister would translate to prove it he asked the waitress to get the manager when he came over my uncle started signing to him with made-up and exaggerated gestures my aunt told him that the food was good in the server was excellent all the while the manager just smiled and nodded when they were done talking the manager said in sign language he spoke ASL and knew it was bullshit we blew up laughing and my uncle's face turned beet red I was in a hotel elevator with my wife in Osaka Japan the Nayak home area to exact it is a popular hotel for tourists we were going up the elevator to our room on the 54th floor it's a high hotel in the elevator with us as a Chinese family that speaks Cantonese they must have assumed we were Japanese or some other type of Asian because they started to tease her preteen daughter about how badly she needs to take a shit they will are fake and the mother was teasing her about how I can almost see it coming out our floor came first and when it did I turn to them and said goodnight in Cantonese their face was priceless and we got out of the elevator my wife called me a jackass while laughing her ass off then we got back to our rooms and took ash to my girlfriend and I live in a taller can I grew up speaking French my whole life and she knows enough to understand other speaking we were in a restaurant which was relatively empty except for us and another very French couple at a table nearby close enough to hear their conversation eventually the other girl started talking about my girlfriend's clothing saying things like more face choice bad choice I suspect they were visiting from Quebec and just didn't realize that most people here speak a bit of French but as we were leaving I turned to them and said bonne journee good day the look on her face still pops into my head occasionally and it makes everything feel right in the world Cable Guy here being a white guy most people don't realize that I know how to speak and write in Spanish I run into so many situations where I can run under the radar and just do my job without someone knowing that I can understand them completely every once in a while I subtly let them know that I can understand them I was doing an installation at a house where the family only spoke Spanish and the order requested for a spanish-speaking tech I showed up to the door the husband opened the door and automatically assumed that I couldn't speak Spanish his English was near-perfect and he greeted me showed me around and where he wanted everything he let me do my work as he walked into the other room where his buddy was an automatically started talking shit about me I can't believe they sent a freaking white guy who can't speak Spanish I specifically told them to send someone who can speak Spanish so I didn't have to deal with this v/s he's going to be lazy AF and not do the job right I bet the a-hole is going to expect a tip after doing a crappy job and I'll have to fix it myself the dude went on and on the entire time I was there talking crap the entire time at the end of the appointment I was pissed I didn't show it but he thought it was funny to talk crap in front of me smile on his face while acting like Lee wasn't saying anything about me so I looked at him told him in Spanish your installation is done if you have any questions you can call the company yourself and they will be able to get someone who Spanish to help you he looked at me with a shocked expression so I continued next time you should ask if the person can speak Spanish before talking Shh his buddy hit the floor laughing as I left the customer standing there feeling like a jackass when I was teaching kids in Japan I would only respond with English only to their Japanese I did this for a few reasons to make them think I didn't speak Japanese to make them using glitch more so I could scare the crap out of them once I decided to speak Japanese some kid in English school didn't do his homework when I asked him for it he told me in English that he forgot his book he then turns to his classmate and says in Japanese that his book is in his bag and he didn't do his homework because he couldn't be bothered I said nothing come the end of the class his mother is waiting in the reception along with my Japanese manager so I tell the manager in English that he didn't do his homework I hear the conversation between kid and mom with him giving the same for God bullshit so I just say in perfect Japanese why are you saying you forgot the book when I asked you in the class you told the other students that it's in your bag and you didn't do the homework because you couldn't be bothered I'm sorry didn't you know that I could understand Japanese mom opens the bag finds the book smacks the kid in the head with the book and tells him to sit in the reception doing his homework kid cries all is good when I was stationed in Korea I was getting a haircut and the hairdresser had like an assistant or a new person helping her get me seated and prepared she says to the main girl he looks like a baby I have a baby face and was like 22 at the time I responded in Korean with I looked like a baby she was really startled and embarrassed and looked out of there for the rest of the haircut the main hairdresser took advantage of being able to talk with me in Korean though my family and I went to s RI Lanka for two weeks to see where my mom grew up and general beach staff for some reason we were like the only people in the hotel we were staying as aside from a wedding party that after day after we got there a few days and there was another family staying there I believe from Suriname and we were all chillin at the pool and decided to play a game of water polo against each other things got excited and one of the daughters yelled out something in Dutch like go for the big fat guy my dutch dad replied what big fat guy and everybody laughed just a simple story but it was pretty sweet [Music]

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Published: Sat May 11 2019

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