Understanding calls is expert level #french #learnfrench #languages #languagelearning #bilingual

I struggle to understand people on the phone in my NATIVE damn language

Me when i’m on the phone with someone i dont know or dont speak to that often.

This is so real!!

The concierge is Charlie Brown's teacher????

drive throughs too. I have to grab someone with me before driving to a drive through for food. I can’t understand low res speaker talk 😅

Okay..... I only had two years of French back in the 70's, but didn't she ask for napkins (serviettes)?

It's very relatable haha

My old roommate was Saudi and in person he spoke great English. Over the phone, his accent got 1,000x thicker 🤣😭😭😭

Why did that sound like grown ups on kids cartoons in the 90's and early 00's?

i get it im so scared to speak on the phone with people i think ita juat too intimate you got the voice of the person right there in your ear and they're talking so close to the phone its like they're talking 2cms from you

Ok but I work at a hotel desk (in a foreign country whose language I just recently learned) except I can’t go up to every room and ask what the hell they want 🥲

This is so true for me with português I can have a long convo in person, but on the phone it's so much harder.

Non verbal cues

This is so real!

😂

Reminds me of trying to text with my Mexican Airbnb and him only replying with voice notes. At least I could replay them.

"Fonfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfonfon"
French recepionist.

It's every second-language speaker's worst nightmare - having to take a phone call for a native speaker when he/she can't come to the phone. Very rare these days now that everyone has a mobile.

It's like 30 years of French for me and French on the phone, songs, French films and comic strips are totally greek to me still.

Whoever that struggles to hear over the phone needs to get their ears checked . Middle aged people esp if u know u know 😂

Soooo real omg

Soooo real omg

Because you can't see the person's mouth or their body language and gesticulations, it's much harder to understand your L2 on the phone, yep.

HAHAHAHHAAH this literally applies to ALL LANGUAGES, eg in Chinese, its a pain to udnerstand calls 😅

did she call Charlie Brown's teacher?

I lose all my "trylingual" superpowers when i have to speak with a native 😂 especially the ones that's speak ONLY their language

I felt this in my soul, the same conversation I have in Japanese in person becomes incomprehensible over the phone

I had this situation. I ordered a tres leches cake from a bakery. They didn’t speak much English, so I had to order in Spanish. Then, they called me to confirm the details of my order; it was so stressful.

I had the exact reverse story with an IRS operator. I can speak English fluently, but I ended up having to spell everything out one letter at a time.

THIS. My employer is pissed off that I never understand what people say on the phone and I always have to pass it to someone else. Thing is, none of them speak a second language, and they don't understand that phone calls are 100x harder than understanding someone stood in front of you.

As a french…
What the fck was that,

I’m the same, I never hear what people say on the phone

Pompompompom😂

¡Someone please explain why shortform content creators don't use real phones a props? 😭

I hate talking on the phone

As autistic person I never understand what’s spoken on the phone 🥺

Man I don’t even speak English on the phone

It reminds me Allo allo how to pretend you speak English: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa Big Ben 🙂

Yeah sometimes i wonder if i should get my ears checked, because i dont understand words over the phone 😂

That’s the reason I genuinely HATE phone calls even in my native language.

My mom did this to me when I was majoring in French in college and she ran in to some random Haitian lady at an airport who was lost. "Oh! My daughter speaks French!" SMDH

I took six years of spanish and I called the college spanish teacher to ask her what level Spanish I should take and she snapped at me in Spanish and I was like uhh what? And she just yelled "level 1!" And hung up. I didn't take Spanish again after that.

Haha she is an excelent actress / comedian

Trying to say "can you repeat, please" but accidentally saying "péter" instead of "répéter". Supposedly, this actually happened to my high school French teacher the first time he went to France

Omg this happens to me as well. I also speak fluent French but I can't, for the life of me, understand French on the phone. I can do video calls in French, and it's no problem, but I don't know what kind of evil sorcery happens when I pick up the phone .... 🫣

I think this is the funniest one of these. Hilarious.

Also phone calls are bullshit. I would absolutely go down to get the towels if it meant not using the phone.

Pov: French is your 1st language but speaking over the phone gives you anxiety

My brain just sometimes do that.
I speak both German (native language) and English (second language). Yet sometimes all I hear is gibberish , I feel so bad whenever I have to ask if they can repeat themselves just to hear gibberish again :'D

I did notice though it's usually with strangers or people I don't talk to much.

This is so true- I speak Afrikaans fluently but for whatever reason I really struggle on the phone.