/Trv/let's (Anglos excluded), what does it feel like when you come across foreigners who can speak your mother tongue when traveling? Are you impressed, do you feel welcomed, or do you take it for granted? What is your native language btw?
Polish
It does not happen, unless they're Ukrainians or Belorussians.
i dont care
Have not met such peoples yet. On a recent outbound flight I met a guy who was... French, living in England, but actually living in my country for a good amount of time and he had picked up on a lot, including the Cyrillic alphabet.
I was surprised at all the mundane places he has visited just mucking about in my country which I would never visit on my own just because there's nothing to see or do there.
Bulgarian. Would be cool, desu. I love speaking it.
>>1143073
>be me
>be camping in Norway with friends
>get fucked by weather and soaking wet, have to abort trip
>get to bumfuck nowhere village with bus stop
>cant read bus information with departure time for shit
>talk to policemen standing on the road looking for village drunkards
>they notice my thick accent and immediately switch from English to German
>I dont even notice and answer them in English
>Cop repeatedly tells me to drop the English since he speaks German with me
>After five minutes he takes me to the side and basically yells at me that he learned German for five years
>friends laugh their ass off
i was just baffled, only later i learned that German apparently is the most studied language after English. Almost everyone else we met threw some german words at us before switching to english, one Riksha-bike driver in Oslo could only say "Cowshit" and used it for the whole conversation.
In Czechia it was different, everybody could speak German and you could get along better than with English. You only had to "trigger" it by telling people youre german in czech. Then they would be really helpful and mobilised any german they could speak.
>>1143783
>later i learned that German apparently is the most studied language after English
You have to study one foreign language there, but most schools only offer Spanish, German and French. Almost everyone chooses Spanish. A few choose German, and even fewer choose French.
Almost nobody learns those languages, though. I only know one guy who remembers enough Spanish hold a simple conversation.
Did you try to go camping on Hardangervidda? How did you get there?