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If you are speaking a language different than your first or primary language and someone compliments you on how well you speak, does it make you uncomfortable?

Asked by JLeslie (65433points) February 19th, 2020

Does it make you uncomfortable, do you take it as a compliment, do you take it as a slight, or as a racist comment?

Please describe in what setting it is happening, there are so many possibilities:

You might be traveling and using a second language.

You might currently live in a country that has a different primary language than what you grew up in.

Another is maybe your family uses a different language, but you were actually born in the country and so you use both languages fairly equally.

Maybe you are just trying to help someone and they are the tourists or new immigrants to the country you live in, and you switch to their language, and they comment on your command of the language.

There are more possibilities.

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