What words, phrases or signs do you use and how do you get your partner's attention?

  • 1bluepixel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Haha, I've caught plenty of Chinese speakers having what they presume are private conversations in my presence, and sometimes even about me. People just automatically assume non-Asians can't speak Chinese, even when these non-Asians live in China.

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      1 year ago

      This happens to me sometimes as I lived in enough places that I understand a lot of common stuff in various European languages even though I don't speak them beyond ordering a beer or whatever.