Is Ireland based off English, or Gaelic? Because I’d imagine the reaction is different.
I ran a marathon in Italy once on a trip through Spain, France, and Italy with my sister. She speaks fluent Spanish and I can speak tourist French now but back then, I was semi-fluent. (I can read French now and everything is self-checkout but can’t form a complex sentence.)
Anyway, Italian is 80% hand gestures. In France, it’s like “Don’t try, American idiot.” In Italy, it’s like 37 hand gestures and one or two words. I couldn’t find my sign-in booth and I asked if I could run the race anyway and they just waved their hands and said “Go.” And the photographer somehow matched me up with my number that was in some sign-in booth.
I started 20 minutes late and probably came in last place. But every little village made special treats for us so you’d stop and have an espresso and some delicious snack. Perfect marathon. 10 of 10. Would run again. And carb loading in France/Italy is definitely not the worst plan I’ve had.
Ireland is incorrect. The majority would be blue or red.
French here, it’s quite the opposite actually. I think it’s basic politeness to try a few words of the language of the country you’re in, and French do enjoy it :) (not the parisiens, but nobody likes the parisians anyway)
My experience in France has been closer to one of the blue colors. They seem to very much prefer when someone at least tries, even if they’re struggling.
One of the Japanese YouTubers I found while looking for resources to help learn Japanese outside of DuoLingo was SoraTheTroll, specifically a bunch of meme videos of “what Americans coming to Japan think it’s like vs how it actually is.”
Quite a lot of “non Japanese person claims you must be super polite, and also super fluent in the language or you’ll piss people off, when the reality is you can say ‘konnichiwa’ in the whitest way possible and the common response is going to be ‘wow! Your Japanese is very good!’”
