Do you react to a foreigner who speaks your language?

[deucher]

This happened to me only once when I spoke to a foreigner in your language. He asked me to show the way and at first I didn't want to do it because I didn't know English and thought he would address me in English, but I was very surprised when he spoke my language. And at the end of the conversation I told him that he has a very wonderful accent

 

[jacobs]

I would be lost in such a situation to be honest

 

[Kane]

It feels good when a foreigner can speak my language. When a foreigner starts communicating with my language, I even praise him for his skill.

 

[Riberet19]

Since my language is one of the most spoken languages in the world (Spanish), I'm not so surprised when a foreigner speaks to me in my language.

 

[linux.poet1]

Nope. In the U.S., foreigners who speak English very well are commonplace. In fact, immigrants/foreigners are so indistinguishable from people born here in our society that it's considered rude to assume that someone isn't born in the U.S. when you talk to them unless they openly admit it to you - or speak a foreign language, struggle with English, etc, then you know.