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In my country women are impressed by the men who speak English but this is not the only one thing that attracts women , dressing ,personality also counts. But yes speaking English is a plus plus point.
Well, I live in Asia. But, in the most inappropriate places, they come over and immediately start telling you things in English.
For example, you are eating at a restaurant with friends or your kids. Someone comes over and points and all the things at your table and says in English, 'Ketchup,' 'chicken,' 'napkins', etc. As if they are waiting for you to applaud them for their excellent English. Then they start engaging in meaningless chit-chat, when they can't understand your answers, and you'd rather be talking to the friends you've made the appointment to actually see and talk with.
Other inappropriate times are when you walking down the street, and some guy tries to prove to his friends or his date, and shouts out 'HI! Where are you from?' They laugh. Those are events simply to show others their ability to say English words, without any other function whatsoever.
Other times are when someone engages you while you are reading or studying something on the subway. They inappropriately start telling jokes or asking weird questions - 'where do you live?', 'can you use chopsticks?' - etc., all while talking loudly, trying to show to everyone else on the subway train their ability to speak English with a foreigners, etc.
It goes on and on. If it's appropriate, i.e. I ask something in English, and need a response in English to understand, than it's well-appreciated. If it just some guy trying to prove to everyone else his English ability, at my own expense. Than it's annoying.
hum, you met some mentally ill people probably. Normal people don't do that.
hum, you met some mentally ill people probably. Normal people don't do that.
It's extremely common in South Korea, where Koreans are obsessed about using English. It's pretty much status-quo for foreigners to experience those things regularly there.
Not so common in Macau or Hong Kong though, but occasionally will meet a Mainland Chinese like that - if they speak English at all, and most Mainland Chinese don't.
Almost never have that experience with Japanese or Southeast Asians though.
It's extremely common in South Korea, where Koreans are obsessed about using English. It's pretty much status-quo for foreigners to experience those things regularly there.
Not so common in Macau or Hong Kong though, but occasionally will meet a Mainland Chinese like that - if they speak English at all, and most Mainland Chinese don't.
Almost never have that experience with Japanese or Southeast Asians though.
Its common enough in Guangzhou. Many times, I've had someone come up and greet me in English and ask where I'm from, stuff like that. I've had restaurant and wait staff refuse to answer me in Chinese because they want to practice or show off their ability. Doesn't bother me much, most of the time. Some times it is a little bit obtrusive - I'm on the metro with my girlfriend sniggling into me and a girl comes up and goes, "Helloooooo where ah you from!" Or I'm visible tired, have my headphones on, and a guy waves to me until I take my headphones off and is like, "Hello, I am Simon! How are you? It is nice to meet you. What is your name?"
I try just to feed off their enthusiasm most of the time, even if I wish they'd go away
Its common enough in Guangzhou. Many times, I've had someone come up and greet me in English and ask where I'm from, stuff like that. I've had restaurant and wait staff refuse to answer me in Chinese because they want to practice or show off their ability. Doesn't bother me much, most of the time. Some times it is a little bit obtrusive - I'm on the metro with my girlfriend sniggling into me and a girl comes up and goes, "Helloooooo where ah you from!" Or I'm visible tired, have my headphones on, and a guy waves to me until I take my headphones off and is like, "Hello, I am Simon! How are you? It is nice to meet you. What is your name?"
I try just to feed off their enthusiasm most of the time, even if I wish they'd go away
Yep, that was pretty much standard day-to-day outside of the house, when I lived in South Korea, as well.
I initially rolled with quite well the first few years of living in South Korea, but with time, I got better at avoiding/ignoring/dealing with obtrusive types, to minimize it, as best I could.
It is also normal in Thailand. Like those taxi drivers. When they realized you don't speak their language, they will try their very best to talk to you in English. Once in a while, gibberish talk is ok for me :lol:
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