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You start speaking their language, and they respond to you in English.
I call this phenomenon the Switch.
Even Mark Twain experienced the Switch.
After traveling abroad, he brilliantly summarized his linguistic frustrations — ones any French learner has felt before.
He wrote, “in Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
If you’ve ever traveled to a French speaking region, you’ve very likely had a similar experience.
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