TheKingsHills wrote:Boxorino wrote:personally i like the idea of a spanish subforum because not allowing people to speak their native language is very inconsiderate of us.
we want more people to come??? let them speak their language!
imagine being in their shoes: everyone around you is speaking a language you don't understand very well. when you try to speak your own language, everyone just silences you.
is that what you want? no! you want to be welcomed. you want to feel like you belong! this is why the spanish subforum is so great because a lot of people speak spanish. we can't just shun them because they wanna hang out. they should be allowed to chill.
just be nice about this. don't be pissy just because you can't speak spanish.
xoxo
~box
Ever been to a place where everyone but you speaks a certain language but they still allow you to be there?
I actually went to school like this once.
My mother put me through private school in the Philippines one summer. It wasn't a primarily English speaking place either.
So their English was rather broken and I couldn't speak or understand their language.
It felt lonely.
Extremely lonely.
I was allowed to be there, they accepted me there as a foreigner. But I was still alone.
I spent a lot of time that I was their alone in silence. Because I couldn't understand what they were saying.
Only a few of them made the effort to speak to me.
Essentially I was just there. I wasn't part of their group of friends or their "community" I was just there.
The foreign people that come in will be in that exact same spot.
okay but the difference is that there are people like me and lamb and apparently mmm who speak spanish and won't make them feel alone.
why are you acting like no one on this forum speaks spanish