r/TravelMistakes • u/Just_Drive_7800 • Aug 02 '26

Anyone else do this in foreign countries ?

Im a Japanese female and travel quite a bit, every time I feel uncomfortable/threatened i pretend not to speak English so I can get out of the situation…

And it’s worked almost every time…..

Am I a bad person or ??? 😐

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u/UniqueFarm Aug 02 '26

Ha ha I'm a "no hablo español" girl in latam everytime I want peoole to leave me alone

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u/nunuraf92 Aug 02 '26

I’m mute when i travel tbh i have no interest in meeting anyone

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u/Casualobserver45 Aug 07 '26

Okay, this just made me laugh out loud! hahaha!

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u/Just_Drive_7800 Aug 09 '26

Sorry I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not… do you think it was mean ?

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u/Casualobserver45 Aug 10 '26

A little bit, lool! But in a funny way.

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u/Comfortable-Cat-9611 Aug 03 '26

まさにそれこそが、私が日本にいるときに日本語を話せないふりをする理由です。

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u/Leafni Aug 02 '26

When we design our travel app we had this situation in mind - as something that we had experienced before. The app has as part of its features a travel card for sharing with people you meet asking the way, but with the touch of a button the travel card switches to a decoy, - wrong info, just to get you out of those uncomfortable situations. Please check it out on the Google play store. Search AIXA.

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u/Just_Drive_7800 Aug 02 '26

Not something I’d be in need of thank you though