@agturcz Note that this map is made from the point of view of a British tourist, or more generally someone speaking a Germanic or Romance language. If you speak a Slavic language, you can reverse that map.

@agturcz With French people over a certain age, it’s more like “get out and don’t come back until you can speak proper French”

@agturcz 100% accurate, no notes.

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Scotland would be dark blue for visitors embracing Scots words like "bawbag" and "outwith"

@agturcz, kinda funny but it neglects the existence of "minority" languages.

Quite surprised to see the Gaeltachts in the "(no reaction)" category.

@agturcz I would say Germany goes firmly in the category "please don't do that" too, though

@agturcz Told a Romanian friend I was learning her language, her reaction was literally: "Why?!" (we both speak English as a second language)

@agturcz I confirm for the french one

@agturcz Iceland should be purple. Waiters/resses/locals just look at me annoyed and ask again in English what I want

@agturcz@circumstances.run german would be purple actually

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Haha!

@agturcz Pretty accurate, I'd say 😁 /from the nordic countries

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opw6e7ItInc

@agturcz @littlefox very accurate

@agturcz checks out

@agturcz France isn't that simple. It's ranged from "how cute" to "no croissant for you, now get out of my bakery you cretin".

@agturcz That taxi driver in Oslo whom I tried to address in my best Norwegian (actually more like Danish) and who answered in perfect Oxford.

@agturcz Shout out to your Olympic level image description here.

@agturcz 😂 why is this so accurate?

@agturcz oh, according to what my parents told me about french people, they would be in the dark blue category 🤔 (and also refuse to speak english)… :D

@agturcz @NickyBouwers typical those English...
They don't know the concept of speaking another language.

@agturcz I love how France is the only one in purple. Accurate, though.

@agturcz I took 6 years of Francaise, then lived in Montreal for a while. They still don't like it when i speak French!

@agturcz @337guanacos painfully true

@agturcz@circumstances.run what color is "tries to teach you swear words" and why isn't turkey marked as such?

@agturcz the red one question is especially relevant for the native speakers. 🤣

@agturcz As Lithuanian, I can confirm this. Like, good for you trying to learn our language. But why ye have to go through that suffer?

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One German guy I greeted in his own language got all snarky with me and asked in English if I always did this. It seemed to upset him and the next few days of the business trip were tense and uncomfortable

@agturcz And this is why I’m now reading novels in Dutch but I still can’t speak the language 😅

@agturcz I feel like Ireland is the wrong color :blobcheeky:

@agturcz wow i didn’t expect welsh people to be so indifferent to a speaker in the wild :apensive:

@agturcz (probable source: https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearningjerk/comments/18udy2a/peoples_reaction_when_you_try_speaking_their/ )

@agturcz It's not really true in Germany, at least not now.

Case in point: I don't speak German very well yet, but most people who I encounter in everyday life don't mind, and let me practice.

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as a Dane I'm probably more on the red side of things. It is notoriously difficult and only like 5-6 million people speak it.

That being said, someone trying very quickly pushes me into the dark blue territory, and I WILL assist further learning and understanding. It's good fun

@agturcz can't hate the French for that though.

@agturcz Can verify for every location I have knowledge of. Japan is also BFFs mode, though most of them do love the excuse to practice their English.

@agturcz This may apply to the people living in/around the capitals. Outside is a differnt story. Above Leeds Northern-England and Scotland are completely different. Also in Wales and outside Dublin. Paris is far different from the rest of France. Western Switserland behaves like France en North/Eastern as Austriams and Bavarians.

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I have a creative writing group I meet with every month that's 90% ex-pats and most of them didn't even realise I was Dutch (i.e. a local) until I'd been going there for two years.

Mostly because, for their benefit, I didn't switch from English even just to give my order to the (equally Dutch) waitstaff of the place where we meet.

So yeah, I'd say that's 100% accurate for the Netherlands.

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Forget France. I want to visit Spain, Portugal, and of course, Scotland.

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Jestem Anglikiem, uczę się polskiego i nie jestem zbyt dobry, ale to niesamowity język!

Ignoruj tych, którzy są chorzy i uprzedzeni do Anglików, jak dosłownie wszędzie, jest mieszanka dobrych i złych ludzi 🥰

@agturcz it pays of sooooo much speaking spanish wrt French indeed..

@agturcz What about Ireland? Gaelic is their national language, you know.

@agturcz When I'm in Italy and Germany, and even France, I see if I can get by ordering in restaurants on very limited language. And it generally works, with the waitstaff understanding not to ask me anything complicated.

I speak a fair amount of Swedish. But sadly that means that in Denmark I have to use English, because the pronunciation in Danish is so different (and hard).

@agturcz I would be blown away if a non Irish spoke to me "as Gaeilge" but I probably wouldn't understand them.

@agturcz @sanity the French are straight up offended, if you don’t speak French though. And they will refuse to speak English to you.

@agturcz If you are in the US and do not speak perfect English without an accent, you might just get told to go back to where you came from.

@agturcz Wales and Ireland would be in light blue, realistically.