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Thread: When is it appropriate for a white person to use Spanish with Latinos?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Óttar View Post
    People criticized him. I don't think his Spanish was bad at all. He did not have much of an accent.
    I was impressed with his ability honestly.But it was stupid that he used it as much as he did. He was speaking in English and addressing a room where probably less than half of the people there knew what he was saying. What's the point of making yourself less understood?
    If it's just to ass kiss the hispanics, then that's dumb.

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    I must confess it's a weird thread. But I see what you mean.

    I'm not a native English-speaker myself. My Spanish is much better than my English, since I started to speak Spanish before I learned French,...As a result, speaking Spanish with Latinos is always natural to me.

    When I'm in the US, I cautiously stick to English when I need to speak with someone who looks Latino, unless I'm certain that my conversation partner is REALLY latino. In this case only, I switch to Spanish. All the Latinos I spoke with seemed to be glad, not even surprised, to talk to a foreigner in their mother tongue.
    On the other hand, speaking Spanish to a brown person who appears not to be Latino would be awkward and even offending. That's why English is always safer.

    With that being said, hen I was in California, I could observe a strange phenomenon. Many young Chicanos are self-haters who are ashamed to speak Spanish in public. I was amused by the fact that they answer in English when their parents ask them something in Spanish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melki View Post
    When I'm in the US, I cautiously stick to English when I need to speak with someone who looks Latino, unless I'm certain that my conversation partner is REALLY latino. In this case only, I switch to Spanish. All the Latinos I spoke with seemed to be glad, not even surprised, to talk to a foreigner in their mother tongue.
    On the other hand, speaking Spanish to a brown person who appears not to be Latino would be awkward and even offending. That's why English is always safer.
    That happened to me, and it was offensive, I also didnt know what to say, I was overwhelmed also they way they adressed me was inapproriate they said "hola amigo" and such
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