In the globalized world in which we live, it is increasingly common to speak a second language and even have notions of a third. For this reason, we can never take for granted that those foreigners we come across do not understand us.
This has been demonstrated by the TikTok user @jmadsj123, a young American who understands Spanish perfectly, explaining the uncomfortable situation she lived in a clothing store with some Spanish-speaking sales assistants who thought she only spoke English.
The video. “When I explain to people in the United States that I speak fluent Spanish, one of the questions I get asked the most is if I’ve ever caught someone talking about me in public,” he begins by explaining, adding that “although it doesn’t happen often, when It happens is one of my favorite things,” he says.
Apparently, this situation happened to her a lot when she was an English teacher in Spain and her students thought that she did not speak Spanish. But the time that she has annoyed her the most happened recently in the United States when she caught two shop assistants criticizing her mother.
The history. “I was shopping with my mother and I was trying to buy a piece of furniture, but it was broken and since it was the last one I wanted to buy it but at a discount,” she explains while ensuring that the request was pleasant and polite.
caught. Apparently, the clerk turned around and started talking to another worker about her mother, saying among other things that she was a robe and why she was asking for a discount. A series of comments that bothered the young woman a lot, so she let them criticize and when they finished she began to speak to them in Spanish. A turn of events that the clerks didn’t see coming, so they finally got the discount they were looking for.
Top comments. A story that has not taken long to go viral in a matter of hours, accumulating more than 733,000 views and all kinds of reactions in this regard: “My biggest fear here is speaking Spanish with my husband and that others understand us hahaha not for speaking ill of people, but because of gossip”, “I admit it. In Vancouver, a friend and I were talking in Spanish about how beautiful a girl was until she said ‘ah, you speak Spanish’”, “It happens to me too”, “She didn’t even leave the discount” or “You handled it very good. I thought you were going to claim them for talking about your mother”, have been some of the most popular reactions.
