How to manage people who talks unknown language?

This can be a little awkward at times, but I have never found it to be a major problem. I have been to a few places where English was not spoken, but I have usually managed to get by to some degree. Although it would be impossible to hold a discussion in this situation. I remember travelling to the zoo in Moscow. I asked the receptionist at the hotel to write down the stations for the Moscow Metro, which were in Cyrillic script. I stopped someone at the Moscow station and showed them the piece of paper, so they pointed the direction to the platform and raised 2 fingers, then made a gesture of travelling and raised 3 fingers. I decided to risk that and crossed 2 bridges to the station, caught the tram and went 3 stops, which took me to the correct station. A similar experience got me to the final station and I arrived at the zoo. I went to Siberia and 3 of us decided to go to the only available bar in Bratsk, where people were paying money and going up in a lift. When they realised we did not speak Russian a lady held up 3 fingers, so I paid her 3 roubles and we were escorted up to the bar. We were given a drinks menu in Cyrillic script, which obviously we could not read. When it became obvious the waitress chose drinks and brought 3 glasses to the table. When my friend signalled for attention she brought 3 different drinks to us, which continued for the night and then we received a bill. The numbers are the same so it was easy for us to read the amount and happily pay. Wherever you may travel, there are always decent people who will try hard to help.

I have my own skill to only talk in english,if the guy still taling in the third language,than i've no idea about that except using my body language,well it's an exciting and also weird thing to do.But i've never had that before so far so i'm lucky.

To those people they dont understand you either , so if you are not willing to learn their language its best to let them be .

I better watch out the facial expression, gestures, posture & tone of voice of the person with an unrecognized foreign language. This way, I can somehow understand the message that he wanted to impart.

Hi prabu I also face this problem while playing online chess , some people type in different language i don't even understand what they type , when i ask them to type in English they don't understand what i type. If we face them for real i think we can only watch their face having a smile or try to communicate through some symbols .

I try to activity it all through with the hand motions and try to use international-sounding words, because those may work... (like... I read in a magazine a story where the guy wanted to buy a pasta cullender... if that's called that in English, in Italy... and he tried to explain it Italian, but the salesperson didn't understand it... then his wife said "wasser go, macaroni stop!" - and it worked!!!)

well, there are ways through which we can communicate with other without resorting to formal languages. one example is sign language. common gestures plus pictures can really help get one's message across the other people. otherwise, one needs to learn the formal language to communicate effectively. no place for misunderstanding and misinterpretation of messages if one knows the language.

What is complex about people talking in a different language as you do? It's a big world, there are many languages and even more dialects. What you can do is to learn that language or let it be. There is nothing complex about it, I think you make a problem that doesn't exist.

I'm still in this kind of situation and the first phrase is dig is " sorry, I don't understand your language, please speak english". Then I learned more words every now and then but still not enough to make a good conversation so when at moment I don't understand them anymore, I ask them to translate in english.