People making fun of your, speaks with their own language

hi neildc! ethics most of the time are learned by the book. they deserve whatever confrontation u may want against them. but when that happens, do it with class! :)

It is extremely RUDE to make fun of someone else's language, whether they think that you can understand them or not! I would inform them that you understood what they said and how rude it was of them to make fun of you. The beauty of languages and cultures are the differences and what we can learn from each other. It is narrow minded to not stop and learn, but to make fun of someone else. I would definitely tell them to stop making fun of your language/dialect and to get their heads out of their fannies and learn!!! Each area, in every country, has it's own dialect (or accent) and it really isn't open for ridicule or making fun of the dialect, accent, custom, appearance, or even the food choices. I have been ridiculed for various reasons, and have become confident in myself enough to look the person in the eye and reprimand them for their ignorance and rudeness. People sometimes need to be taught manners, and in this case it is a necessity!

I think it is very rude and disrespectful to talk in that way about someone behind their back,(and especially right in front of them,!)when they were under the assumption you didn't understand what they were saying! I think You should definitely have put those people in their place,or at least made them think twice before opening their mouth again!

Neil first of all im not sure if it was correct, but isn't Tagalog is also the Filipino? which is the official language of the Philippines not a dialect. Correct me if I'm wrong. For the reason that more than 170 dialect of our country you'll be likely to encouter that, Although I never encoutered being laugh at yet. but whenever I bump into something like that I always tell it to their face, hey don't speak any dialect we do not undertand. It will also teach them a lesson not to do that again with other people. But whenever they are majority in a group I usually get myself out, just to avoid misundertanding that may lead to something worse.

hi neil, wow, that is so funny and a very difficult situation to handle.. , i can be dizzy by that.. whwheeww!! well, honestly if i knew what they are talking about, and if it is not good on my side, i will definitely go to them and speak the language they speak so they can notice that i understand what they are talking about.. in that way, they can distinguish that i am not fooling around and i am getting angry, .. ahhmm, i hope i can do it..aja.!! janebeth,.

That is not something to be proud of as a fellow PROVINCE men..I heard a sick joke from one of my relatives that if i don't know Pangasinense then they will sold me. then i said to myself, then why bother going home in my province in the first place if i feel that I am going to be harmed.. By the way, my home dialect is Tagalog and my foreign dialect is Pangasinan. Tagalog is the number one spoken dialect in most part of Philippines. Pangasinense i think for me is the dialect original in Pangasinan province, Part of big big province areas I was born Tagalog from Luzon but still living in Cavite. So anyone can call me Bis-Tag - Bisayang Tagalog. lol - it maybe funny at some point but i see it as if they are discriminating you. i don't like it Have a great day...

Shoot. I am so sorry, sometimes we are doing this. But we are not making fun of others. But my friends are just fond of talking our native dialect in public. Sometimes we laugh loud, and some people nearby are looking at us and furious as if they are the one we talked about. One time also, we are talking about a certain place in bikol in our dialect and suddenly one passenger in the jeepney interrupt us and we were amazed because she is also a bikolano. Good thing, we are not saying against anyone or rude thing. Yeah it is really rude doing this stuff.

Hi Neil, great to see you around once more. I have this particular thing whereby if anyone speaks about me, I'll definitely give a welcome pat in the back. It might be good or bad, depending on what the person has requested. In this instance like you have given, say the person is talking about me. Given the knowledge that I know 2 dialects or languages, I would utter back to them in that same dialect and making sure that they realize I do know they were talking about me. And then I would walk off. I wouldn't pick a fight, but I would give a very sarcastic remark that would make the cat blush, if there is ever such a term. Good day, Neil.

Not sure I've ever run into this, but my husband (kind of) did. He used to work at Los Angeles airport in the food concessions. A German mother and daughter came in and the daughter was non stop complaining about the food. The mother told her to stop, somebody might hear her. The daughter laughed and said nobody would understand. That's when my husband looked at her and said in his almost perfect German, "really?"

Good day.. long time no hear. Whether one is capable of speaking another language or not, one should render proper decorum. I mean it is outright rude to speak against or make fun of other people just out of their whim and more so if it was done using other language or dialect. If there are misunderstandings then it is prudent to ask that person properly or talk to that person politely than speaking against him at his back. If I were that person who mas made fun of., I will not mid those people but I will make them know that I understand what they were talking about by using that language in a polite manner. Like hello or how do you do using that language.

Well that's why we really shouldn't judge people because they might understand what we're saying. It's rude. I guess i will just give them a bad stare to send them a message that i understood what they were saying and that it's not something good. So that might shut them up. I'm from Zamboanga City but i do visit Manila from time to time but then i don't speak Chavacano especially if it's about judging a person i don't know.

hello neil! i have experienced a thing like this and i feel really bad...well, well, its not that they are talking bad things about me or making fun out of me...but they are talking right in front of me, using their own dialect and glancing at me once in a while...i know that they are talking something that they want to hide from me, but i have a strong feeling that time...but i can't do anything coz i don't really understand their language.... so what i just do then, is to keep on listening, trying to absorb and remember some words and still smiling on them...and after that time, i ask someone about the words that i hear and from there i figured out what they are talking...huh! i study their language little by little...and so without them knowing, i already understands what they are talking about and when i don't like what they are saying, i just tell them to stop talking about it coz i understand it already... i think people like them are just so insensitive and rude and very unethical... by the way, that situation happens in cagayan de oro where my husband lives, and that happens the first time i go there... but now, i am just like you...i am a natural born Tagalog but now living here in Cebu and so i also speaks and understand Cebuano (but still not fluent in it....)

I have had a little French lessons but that was a long time ago and I've forgotten everything I've learned. We do have a lot of Mexicans around here now and if they have made fun of me, I didn't know it because I don't know Spanish. I've been in Europe, too, and if anybody talked about me or anybody I was travelling with, I didn't know it since I didn't know their language. That was in 1973 and I remember what a time we all had understanding people over there, lol. I live in Alabama, which is in the southern part of the united states and I have a good old southern accent. I used to work as a telemarketer and we would call people up north a lot. Some people up there would tell me they liked the way I talked. People in the north, like up in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, etc. talk with a different accent to what we do. They talk a lot faster than what we do, for one thing. It's the same way with people from California. I have relatives who live out there and they never made fun of me to my face. I know, I used to try to talk like them whenever they weren't here. If they ever made fun of me where I could here them, I would probably remind them that we have presidents of the united states who were from the south. I would ask them if they made fun of the way they talked. I would also remind them that we see country music singers on television a lot and I would ask them if they make fun of the way they talk. Dolly Parton, for example, has lived in New York City. Did they make fun of the way she talks? Otherwise, I'm proud of my southern accent. As Randy Owens says in one of his songs, "I spesk my southern english as natural as I please. I'm in the Heart Of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me." Kathy.

This has happened to me before, as i live in Spain and speak English, & i've had people say things about me in English . I usually say something along the lines of 'Before you make bigger fools of yourself, you might want to know i speak English (Or whatever language you speak .)' It'll leave them speechless ;D

thats funny. anyway, this is a big problem here in AZ,USA. we have LOTS of mexicans because of so close to the border. many of them dont even bother to learn english and expect us to learn spanish. it happens on both sides of language here. many people make fun when someone cant speak english and many times the spanish speaking are looking at us laughing and saying things we dont understand. just a couple weeks ago tho, my son told some guys off in spanish that didnt know he understood what they were saying he was married to a mexican gal for about 5 yrs and knows most of the language especially the put downs if you know what i mean.since being married sometimes a wife will get mad and say some things.

Hi Nei I would tell them off in their own language, rather loudly so others can hear, but you know you shout give a pat on your back because you can wright English very well, most people over here cannot read and write any other language but English, like myself. Hugs. Tamara

My father is a tagalog and mother is from Visayas region known as belong to ilonggo tribes. I was born in Cotabato, but never know to speak Muslim languages. I know to speak Tagalog, and Ilonggo and lesser Bisayas. So far the biggest things which really measured one's speaking abilities and accents is when you apply to a call center. Then you would know your abilities if you retain your natives languages accent or manage to improve it using American accent..

i will teach a lesson to people making fun of me. first of all i will see to all of them and go near to them.i will talk to them in their language only, not to make a fun of me and i know their special mocking language.if they do not stop i will tell their negative points in a satirical way individually. i will hit them mentally.

Hi neil! I have a friend who's in Canada and he says that everytime they talk with their parents or relatives who are Filipino but they're in company with one or more Canadians, they always talk in English because it is utterly rude to speak our native tongue when there are people with you who are unable to understand it. In the case of your topic, it is really, utterly, "straight-in-your-face", rude of them to make fun of me, but somehow funny coz they didn't know that I would understand everything they'd say, lol. Well, what I'd do is just look at them directly in the eyes, and give them my sweetest smile, they'll get the point, LOL! I remember when one of my officemates told me a similar story. It was about his Ilonggo friend who was staying in Manila. He was riding a jeepney when two of the passengers started making fun of his face. They were Ilonggo as well. One commented (in Ilonggo) that his face looked like a monkey (and then they both laughed after that) because his hair was long and he has like a thick beard and mustache. They didn't realize that he fully understood what they said. When he got off the jeepney and passed by the seats of the two passengers, he then told them in Ilonggo "I'll be monkeying around now! Bye!". ROFL!!! I could only imagine the shock on their faces when they found out that he understood everything they said! LOL!

what i will do is. i will take my chair to them and sit with them and i will make them understand that who am i and what i can do, i will see to it that they don't do this kind of thing with any one else :) i will teach them a really good lesson.