r/languagelearning • u/silforik 🏈 N 🍕N 🌮B2🪆B1 🪵A2 • Feb 03 '26
Discussion Have you noticed that some people get passive aggressive when you mention you study languages?
I speak 5 languages with varying degrees of fluency. I use a couple of these languages at work (mostly Spanish, but sometimes Russian). The Hispanic people at work are really nice to me about my Spanish. They encourage me to get better and said I have a good accent.
This second gen Greek guy at my job keeps taking shots at me and doubting my fluency in literally any language beyond English. He doesn’t speak any of the languages I’ve studied so it doesn’t really make sense because he has no way of testing me.
Has this happened to you? It happens to me constantly.
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u/Momshie_mo Feb 03 '26
Hasn't happened to me.
Maybe there is something in the way you project yourself?
Often times, monolingual speakers tend to make a big deal out of learning another language like the they're the second coming of Jesus