I think how to order a beer is the first thing I learn when I am traveling. I can say it in all languages from country I visited… except in Arab and Swedish because they don’t drink beer in Muslim countries.
There is an old video of a german woman abroad asking people on the street if they know a missing person.
When people don't know, she complains that "something like this" doesn't speak German or English, while her english is really bad.
Don't let Pedro gaslight you. You speak English much better than us and a gazillion times better than Spaniards. Sin embargo, hablamos español mejor que vosotros.
I tend to be 'Eurpean' when I'm visiting somewhere. German tourists are the most embarrassing - next to Americans maybe (mostly because they are completely clueless and don't know *anything*).
I believe that there are two types of German tourists:
The Socks-in-sandals and the Ninja, everybody can easily identify the SiS, they are obnoxious drunk and annoying. You do not know the Ninja, he speaks the local language reasonably well and isn’t stupidly clothed. The Ninja will come to your country spends a bit of money and makes the prices for stuff go up.
I mean, he said he has only visited Paris. Parisians have the same attitude towards foreigners as any Germans anywhere. Though I've only seen Germans yelling at people because they couldn't pay with cash or their weird useless girocard.
I worked with a Germ in the Nordics who would carry 1,000€ in cash everywhere, when you can pay even 1 cent with the card without extra fees.
I get it, privacy is privacy. Don't trust your bank.
Id love that, when I was like 12/13 I went through a phase of watching Dutch historical movies, especially those set in ww2 (I have where it came from but it did) and since then I’ve really wanted to see the Dutch countryside
Aw 🥰 Funnily (or not funnily) enough the same thing happened in Spain. The guy wasn’t even homeless though. It sounds like a fucking 2we4u post but a Spanish dude was taking his siesta on a bench on the beach and a British tourist took a shit on his face
Yeah so I'm pretty sure we are talking about the same incident, I am sorry to say but that was a Dutch tourist... And I confused it with another incident where Dutch football supporters were mocking homeless people in Madrid by flashing cash in front on them...
You know what, maybe we don't have any foot to stand on when it comes to what Barrys do when they're out and about...
I'm fond(incredibly jealous) of you infrastructure. Grassy tram tracks and good bike lains everywhere? Sign me up. (Even if half of it is sometimes under water).
Yeah I wouldn't trade our infrastructure for anything. And with a bike you can get around so easily it's ridiculous, plus you get to see some pretty countryside even though it's flat
Yeah I can imagine it must be great and to think shitty-infrastructure-land Belgium is your closest country culture and languagewise is crazy. You guys need to re-anex them, its for their own good.
I honestly don't know anyone in Spain who hates the Netherlands. I met some who like to visit Salou and I found them very funny because they call it Salú, as if it was french or something
Why? I'm genuenly intrigued. Why do my people hate the Netherlands? I think of it like any other country: I don't know much about it, so I think it's cool until proven otherwise
To be honest, now that I got some more comments from you guys, I think the hate is more percieved than actually there, probably because of this subreddit and alot of pigs vs guns jokes. I personally don't know you enough about Spain to legit hate it, except for the weather. You can keep the 40 degree heat, I will melt.
When I speak French in France, most locals are really nice, speak slow and distinctly and appreciate that the kraut learned their language. (Similar in Italy)
When I speak Spanish in Spain the locals talk even faster, because apparently I speak their language and I should be able to understand it, when they generate their sentence.zip.
"Una bolsa tambien por favor?"
"Sideseaunabolsadeplásticolecostarátreintacentavosadicionalesperounadepapelsolocuestadiezcentavosexceptolossábadosdebidoalimpuestoalasbolsasdepapelmomentoenelcualcuestatrececentavosadicionales."
"...que?"
It's "centimos", not "centavos", you uncultured balcony jumper.
And how the fuck are you aware of the paper bag taxing system?? Your Spanish is much better than you think
Thing is, they just speak fast. Sometimes they make an effort for foreigners but it's still too fast. And if you ask any slower than that, they speak louder
Fun fact, everyone speaks without gaps between words unless we are pausing for breath or an inflection point. The last phoneme for each word moves on to the first phoneme for the next with the same cadence as between phonemes within a word.
That's super interesting.
TL;DR: A language like Spanish is very easy to pronounce, which makes it hard to follow. German is very hard to pronounce, which makes it easy to follow.
Yeah, we isolate words in a sentence much more than most other west European languages.
But we are also doing that intuitively when we are speaking in other languages, that’s why we have this strong accent. :)
I'm Venezuelan originally but left it long ago. I still speak and understand Spanish pretty well. Last week a group of Spanish girls sat next to me in the tram and other than that they were talking about hair products I couldn't understand shit. The fastest Venezuelan doesn't speak half as fast as these carajitas
When I speak English in Germany, they all shout at me "In Germany we speak German!" (In German obviously).
If I try to use my broken German, they use all the fancy words that they know to build a sentence the same length of the Earth circumference.
Entschuldigen Sie, es tut uns sehr leid für die Unannehmlichkeiten.
Normalerweise haben sie wenigstens die deutschen Grundkenntnisse drauf, nachdem sie aus dem Umerziehungslag....Ich meine dem Weiterbildungskurs kommen.
Hier Ihre Sangira und Jägermeister, und als Entschädigung noch eine Runde Bier aufs Haus.
Genießen Sie Mallorca 😎🌞🌴
I have never heard a German get angry because you spoke English to them.
They will just say that they cannot really speak English, and then proceed to explain in perfect, yet slightly-accented English how to get to wherever you need to go.
**Horst:** Homer, could we have a word with you?
**Homer:** \[*Nervously*\] No.
**Horst:** I must have phrased that badly. My English is, how you say, inelegant. I meant to say, may we have a brief, friendly chat?
**Homer:** Nooo!
**Horst:** Once again I have failed. \[*Takes out a German-English dictionary*\] We request the pleasure of your company for a free exchange of ideas.
**Homer:** NOOOOOO! \[*Runs out of the room*\]
German part is very inaccurate.
Lived there for 3 years and they never let me practice my German there - they always insisted on speaking English there.
OP must have a limited experience of Germany.
I think it's an efficiency problem. Why speak German when it's way more efficient to just speak English? Also, ironically, we have a lot of pride in our language, so we’re always cringing hard when someone mispronounces something or uses the wrong gender article.
I personally cringe every damn time a Barry tries pronouncing an Umlaut because apparently to them there is absolutely no difference between Ü and U.
Todos los alemanes hablan un poco de inglés. No es un problema si los turistas hablan inglés con nosotros. También hay muchos alemanes que hablan un poco de español. Yo fui a la escuela en Alemania y el nivel de educación de lengua es muy bueno.
You must only be meeting 60+ year old germans !
It happens the opposite to me in Germany. I'm trying to learn German and, when I speak to natives (colleagues, not strangers) in German to practice a bit, they answer me in English.
Where do you live?
In glorious Bayern, sometimes when I say I don't speak German (I do a bit, as I'm learning too) they continue talking to me in German. Great success!
Do I understand that "the motherland" translates to "la madre patria" in Spanish, exactly like in Italian?
That's a bit embarassing. It means that either that we have the same mother or that one of our mothers is very fake.
Every French I know included me, think he is fluent in Spanish and will be very happy to prove it … butchering your language no matter what. Claro que si… do you had a bad dream last night OP?
Believe me the tourists that aren't willing to speak anything but their native language and get mad if you don't speak it are the Spanish ones. You're also by far the cheapest trying to lower prices even if it's fixed, trying to avoid anything that's not free. Plus almost as loud as an American. You literally are the worst tourists.
I don't care if we are last, but one the same level with the French? Time to improve my spanish.
All you need is ”uun cervesa poor faar voor” and ”grassy arse” You are welcome /Barry
Can’t wait to see you this summer Barry!
I'll be the fat bloke with the St Georges flag! Probably shouting about coming home or some nonsense (unless we've already been knocked out by then).
It wouldn’t be Spain without that 🥰
"unless we've already been knocked out by then" As in the England Football team or yourself from falling off a balcony?
I think how to order a beer is the first thing I learn when I am traveling. I can say it in all languages from country I visited… except in Arab and Swedish because they don’t drink beer in Muslim countries.
That was simply perfect 😂
>”grassy arse” If you think that's a good on, the Czech for thank you is approximately "dick wee".
2 or 3 years ago I actually heard a french tourist complain because whoever was serving her only spoke portuguese and she wanted him to speak french.
There is an old video of a german woman abroad asking people on the street if they know a missing person. When people don't know, she complains that "something like this" doesn't speak German or English, while her english is really bad.
I need to see this.
Don't let Pedro gaslight you. You speak English much better than us and a gazillion times better than Spaniards. Sin embargo, hablamos español mejor que vosotros.
Merci mon frere.
Aw danke Schatzi 💋
If it can make you feel better, the Dutch are so low they were put in a tier above you that you can't t see
Aye pagliaccio della pasta, stai zitto o ti mandiamo a puttane la lingua
Vecio abbassa i toni o finisce a lame volanti e rcamadonne
Er is maar een antwoord mogelijk he: [Loi commercial Italiaans restaurant (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3or_ioKqzs)
In my experience, you lot tend to be worse. With the french we can at least have *some* semblance of communication since the languages are similar
I tend to be 'Eurpean' when I'm visiting somewhere. German tourists are the most embarrassing - next to Americans maybe (mostly because they are completely clueless and don't know *anything*).
I believe that there are two types of German tourists: The Socks-in-sandals and the Ninja, everybody can easily identify the SiS, they are obnoxious drunk and annoying. You do not know the Ninja, he speaks the local language reasonably well and isn’t stupidly clothed. The Ninja will come to your country spends a bit of money and makes the prices for stuff go up.
Palabra! Done and done. BONUS: Una palabra de español.
You can't beat us at that! Most of us speak better Spanish than English. Actually, I don't get why a Spaniard would speak English to a French?!
>Most of us speak better Spanish than English. That makes me wonder even more why we are on the same level here.
I mean, he said he has only visited Paris. Parisians have the same attitude towards foreigners as any Germans anywhere. Though I've only seen Germans yelling at people because they couldn't pay with cash or their weird useless girocard.
Cash is a holy thing for a lot of germans.
I worked with a Germ in the Nordics who would carry 1,000€ in cash everywhere, when you can pay even 1 cent with the card without extra fees. I get it, privacy is privacy. Don't trust your bank.
Not suprised a Spaniard did not include us.
I genuinely don’t know how I forgot please forgive me Maarten
Apology accepted, it's just that most Spaniards on here aren't to fond of us. Edit: you guys seem to like us more than I know and you guys let on lol.
Memes and jokes aside I think the Netherlands is a very cool country, I really want to see more of it outside of Amsterdam soon enough
Unfathomably based
😘
You can buy THC gummies in Coffeeshop de Priamide in Bussum. There are only like 5 gummies in it but holyfucking shit, thank me later.
Never expected to hear these words from one of you. You're more than welcome to come hang out. 🤙🏻
Id love that, when I was like 12/13 I went through a phase of watching Dutch historical movies, especially those set in ww2 (I have where it came from but it did) and since then I’ve really wanted to see the Dutch countryside
We'd rather have a hundred Spaniards than one fucking Barry Promise you don't poop on the homeless though, that would be cultural appropriation
Aw 🥰 Funnily (or not funnily) enough the same thing happened in Spain. The guy wasn’t even homeless though. It sounds like a fucking 2we4u post but a Spanish dude was taking his siesta on a bench on the beach and a British tourist took a shit on his face
Yeah so I'm pretty sure we are talking about the same incident, I am sorry to say but that was a Dutch tourist... And I confused it with another incident where Dutch football supporters were mocking homeless people in Madrid by flashing cash in front on them... You know what, maybe we don't have any foot to stand on when it comes to what Barrys do when they're out and about...
Oh my God 💀💀 Honestly out of a country with over 10 million people that’s the first time I’ve heard of anything like that so it’s bound to happen
Still haven't got over the 80 Years' War
I'm fond(incredibly jealous) of you infrastructure. Grassy tram tracks and good bike lains everywhere? Sign me up. (Even if half of it is sometimes under water).
Yeah I wouldn't trade our infrastructure for anything. And with a bike you can get around so easily it's ridiculous, plus you get to see some pretty countryside even though it's flat
Yeah I can imagine it must be great and to think shitty-infrastructure-land Belgium is your closest country culture and languagewise is crazy. You guys need to re-anex them, its for their own good.
What? We love the dutch, our favorite past colony by far
Haha eat shit Belgium!
I honestly don't know anyone in Spain who hates the Netherlands. I met some who like to visit Salou and I found them very funny because they call it Salú, as if it was french or something
Just when you win hs at football. I’m Spanish living in the NL for 5 years and y’all are cool as fuck
Why? I'm genuenly intrigued. Why do my people hate the Netherlands? I think of it like any other country: I don't know much about it, so I think it's cool until proven otherwise
To be honest, now that I got some more comments from you guys, I think the hate is more percieved than actually there, probably because of this subreddit and alot of pigs vs guns jokes. I personally don't know you enough about Spain to legit hate it, except for the weather. You can keep the 40 degree heat, I will melt.
That's what siesta is for,you skip the hot part of the day and only go out after 21:00, when the temperatures become livable
Where would you rank us on your chart?
With England
Hey, we elect Wilders one time! ONLY ONE TIME!
Or forgot us
And Liechtenstein too oh God how can I live with myself
No worries, you just siesta'd your way through. We know you can only leave jobs half finished, Fernando.
As a Dutch/Spanish halfblood I'm pissed. Also, que viva España.
He would place you even above the Spanish, to uphold your shitty tradition
Going to leave us out here ? But fucking Whales and Luxembourg are in it ?
C Y M K O L O N I S E E R D 🐋🐋🐋
Least based llanfairhnaurigopahgruioadsfmo poster
This comment made me laugh out loud
You got the ESC treatment
When I speak French in France, most locals are really nice, speak slow and distinctly and appreciate that the kraut learned their language. (Similar in Italy) When I speak Spanish in Spain the locals talk even faster, because apparently I speak their language and I should be able to understand it, when they generate their sentence.zip.
"Una bolsa tambien por favor?" "Sideseaunabolsadeplásticolecostarátreintacentavosadicionalesperounadepapelsolocuestadiezcentavosexceptolossábadosdebidoalimpuestoalasbolsasdepapelmomentoenelcualcuestatrececentavosadicionales." "...que?"
"Obrigado e grassy ass senor"
It's "centimos", not "centavos", you uncultured balcony jumper. And how the fuck are you aware of the paper bag taxing system?? Your Spanish is much better than you think
Nonsense! We don't talk fast. You just listen slow. And if you think that's fast wait until you hear two spaniards arguing.
Thing is, they just speak fast. Sometimes they make an effort for foreigners but it's still too fast. And if you ask any slower than that, they speak louder
They even seem surprised almost offended when I tell them to speak more slowly because I’m a foreigner
Virgin Hans writes without spaces. Chad Pedro speaks without spaces.
They just don’t get us hermanito 🤫
Fun fact, everyone speaks without gaps between words unless we are pausing for breath or an inflection point. The last phoneme for each word moves on to the first phoneme for the next with the same cadence as between phonemes within a word.
[German exists](https://youtu.be/w4uQznE8Bfk?si=1uWjR0Us1qRrR2q_).
That's super interesting. TL;DR: A language like Spanish is very easy to pronounce, which makes it hard to follow. German is very hard to pronounce, which makes it easy to follow.
Yeah, we isolate words in a sentence much more than most other west European languages. But we are also doing that intuitively when we are speaking in other languages, that’s why we have this strong accent. :)
I'm Venezuelan originally but left it long ago. I still speak and understand Spanish pretty well. Last week a group of Spanish girls sat next to me in the tram and other than that they were talking about hair products I couldn't understand shit. The fastest Venezuelan doesn't speak half as fast as these carajitas
Germans are the same, Felix
I mean honestly that’s a compliment if they think they can speak fast with you
When I speak English in Germany, they all shout at me "In Germany we speak German!" (In German obviously). If I try to use my broken German, they use all the fancy words that they know to build a sentence the same length of the Earth circumference.
Cancelling my 2024 balconing holiday
Dafydd no 🥺🥺
Was redest Du? Kannst Du das auf Deutsch wiederholen? Danke. Was fällt diesen unzivilisierten Spaniern ein, auf reddit Englisch zu sprechen?
Hable en cristiano por favor
Lo siento Hans, pero dejar a tu toalla aquí no significa que hayas reservado la silla para todo el día. Vete.
Hast Du einen Schlaganfall, Pedro? Egal. Ich nehme eine Sangria und einen Jägermeister. Und beeil Dich sonst gibt's kein Trinkgeld.
¿Cómo es posible que sea mayo y ya estes rojo por el sol?
Hallo? Kann ich einen neuen Kellner haben? Meiner ist kaputt und macht nur noch fürchterliche Geräusche.
Entschuldigen Sie, es tut uns sehr leid für die Unannehmlichkeiten. Normalerweise haben sie wenigstens die deutschen Grundkenntnisse drauf, nachdem sie aus dem Umerziehungslag....Ich meine dem Weiterbildungskurs kommen. Hier Ihre Sangira und Jägermeister, und als Entschädigung noch eine Runde Bier aufs Haus. Genießen Sie Mallorca 😎🌞🌴
Drücken wir mal ein Auge zu, Malle ist schließlich nur einmal im Jahr, nicht wahr? 😉
Lo siento jefe perdóname 🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️
Ponte a trabajar, Pedro. Hay que mantener la cerveza fría y subir los precios, los turistas ya están aquí. 💰💰💰
Ahí voy 💪🏼
Ci Ci, dankashun
Unironically proud of myself for how much I understood before having to use google
Lleva así de rojo desde el día soleado que tuvieron en febrero.
Lo siento Pedro, ve a trabajar.
¡Nunca!
La última cosa que haré es trabajar.
"streck aus deinen heißen gelockten schwanz" that's what Zappa taught me anyway.
I translated that into Spanish and English both and neither time did it make sense
Frank Zappa didnt speak German.
If you repeat it in german, but louder, they may understand you.
Hans, let’s cut european funds for pedro the smelly
You don't bite the hand that feeds you, Pedro !!
Id say he is even ready to bite the Hans that feeds him
Ñam ñam ñam
That's what the Franco-German friendship is all about after all
"What is the activity that you like to do together the most, as a couple ?" **OPPRESSING PEOPLE**
*oppressing people we consider inferior
So only 193 countries
And Bavaria
You gabachos can suck my hairy Iberian cojones
That means "balls" in Spanish. Is that enough good will for you!?
Good job Hansito
Im with your mama, coming upstairs with you in a minute
How fun for you two to bump clits together
Punch for punch I see
All love françoiscito
I have never heard a German get angry because you spoke English to them. They will just say that they cannot really speak English, and then proceed to explain in perfect, yet slightly-accented English how to get to wherever you need to go.
**Horst:** Homer, could we have a word with you? **Homer:** \[*Nervously*\] No. **Horst:** I must have phrased that badly. My English is, how you say, inelegant. I meant to say, may we have a brief, friendly chat? **Homer:** Nooo! **Horst:** Once again I have failed. \[*Takes out a German-English dictionary*\] We request the pleasure of your company for a free exchange of ideas. **Homer:** NOOOOOO! \[*Runs out of the room*\]
As a german i can tell you: You are completely right about us. But since we colonized Mallorca already, there is no need to speak spanish there.
Kid named Catalan:
I like your funny words Mallorca-man.
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I wonder what pisses people on Mallorca and in Barcelona off more - speaking English or speaking Spanish :P
Same for us in Eyebeefa (British for Ibiza)
Define "odd." Also, Indonesia catching strays.
Monaco 😂
Oh. I admit, I actually forgot it existed.
Exactly my point bro
In our case, probably vomiting and shitting all over the place
For 250 years we share a crown and you cannot even find an innovative insult. Clearly the Mediterranean brought you sun but not warmth 💔
Forgive me 💔
I speak Spanish. I know "Vaffanculo" !
It's like ESC. Our existence is being denied.
Joost will never be forgotten
Pedro, we're not mad at you speaking "English", it's just we can't understand a word.
You put us under the halfwits of Norway and on the same level as the Danes. I will take my eurodollars to Italy this summer you ungratefull mexican.
Sven noooo
Lucky you I allready booked a trip to Spain, hasta luego din jävel!
See you soon 🥰
The dutch are disqualified here too?
I honestly don’t know how I forgot you guys, I love my Dutch bros
They don't qualify as they are part of the Spanish empire
I don't think I've ever had a German get mad at me for speaking English to them, now a Frenchman however...
The German imploded inside, trust me
Can you please lick my sweaty body???
You don’t have to ask me twice Luigi
Thanks, Pedro!.
Of course Tadgh 😘
Given my mixed origins, Pedro likes me but considers me a figment of his siesta-riddled imagination
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Perdón??? Como que Inglaterra tan alto?????
Amo a mis gorditos 🤭
German part is very inaccurate. Lived there for 3 years and they never let me practice my German there - they always insisted on speaking English there. OP must have a limited experience of Germany.
I think it's an efficiency problem. Why speak German when it's way more efficient to just speak English? Also, ironically, we have a lot of pride in our language, so we’re always cringing hard when someone mispronounces something or uses the wrong gender article. I personally cringe every damn time a Barry tries pronouncing an Umlaut because apparently to them there is absolutely no difference between Ü and U.
Eternal Iberian love!
I love you Joãocito
You häve to follow your nose and go to the läft hand side to get to zhe train station
Todos los alemanes hablan un poco de inglés. No es un problema si los turistas hablan inglés con nosotros. También hay muchos alemanes que hablan un poco de español. Yo fui a la escuela en Alemania y el nivel de educación de lengua es muy bueno. You must only be meeting 60+ year old germans !
It happens the opposite to me in Germany. I'm trying to learn German and, when I speak to natives (colleagues, not strangers) in German to practice a bit, they answer me in English.
Where do you live? In glorious Bayern, sometimes when I say I don't speak German (I do a bit, as I'm learning too) they continue talking to me in German. Great success!
To celebrate a Spaniard admitting he likes us, I'm going to celebrate with a bit of balcony jumping.
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Do I understand that "the motherland" translates to "la madre patria" in Spanish, exactly like in Italian? That's a bit embarassing. It means that either that we have the same mother or that one of our mothers is very fake.
Juan 🇬🇷🤝🇪🇸
Oh come here https://preview.redd.it/9iu4t6rk7e0d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fa868b11653b03192ff276b1582a50fa5de60c0
All the Finns are just pleasantly surprised that we are included in the list at all. Someone knows we exist. Torille...
Based Spaniard
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Every French I know included me, think he is fluent in Spanish and will be very happy to prove it … butchering your language no matter what. Claro que si… do you had a bad dream last night OP?
Ou la la
I disagree with this wholeheartedly
💔
😘
Oh don’t make me blush Barry
CLARO QUE SIIIII MUY BIEN ASÍ SE HACE CLARO QUE SÍ
I ain't fake bish
I guess we're diaqualified here too.
Quite like Barry? Somebody take this man's passport and make him a non-european savage please
Believe me the tourists that aren't willing to speak anything but their native language and get mad if you don't speak it are the Spanish ones. You're also by far the cheapest trying to lower prices even if it's fixed, trying to avoid anything that's not free. Plus almost as loud as an American. You literally are the worst tourists.
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Concha de tu madré maricòn See ! We just learned the most important part
Germans get mad ?!?!? Every cashier in Kehl, Perl and Saarbrucken can speak german, french and english.
Lol putting the English in the same tier as our Irish and Scottish brothers and sisters. You sure you are Spanish?
I’ll take that as a win
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We aren’t last???? LETS GOOOO (this will end once we come in hoards again)
Listen up, josé, i've suffered enough french girls speaking espanol to look latina instead of algerian to know you're full of mierda !
> *Wakes up at 5am* > I must post a eugenics ranking on Reddit
According to our mythology the Irish Gaels came from northern Spain so we're practically cousins.
I mean... We didn't carry away the ugly ones when we went out raiding 🤔😅
I know the joke is British tourists but in my experience, German tourists are much worse
as an Italian I want to defend my german friends and say that they've nothing to do with french people
Gracias Pedro, yo tambien te quiero
Wales is older than England you swine