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Speaking English abroad

spanish um but i know i'm embarrassed when i go on holiday and everybody wants to shout in english uh yeah thinking that that's you know they they need to be understood and if t...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: British stereotypesSubtitles: en

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and and

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spanish

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um

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but i know i'm embarrassed when i go on

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holiday and everybody wants to shout in

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english uh yeah thinking that that's you

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know

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they they need to be understood and if

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they shout it

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it'll turn into spanish or french or

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something

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uh last one anti-social behavior abroad

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yeah that horrifies me and it's i can't

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bear the way certain kinds of english

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and british people behave when they're

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abroad but have you have you yourself

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been guilty of it no never no

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i'm i'm i tend to just really believe in

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being respectful of the culture where

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you are well i'm not very anti-social

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when i'm here

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so you know even if i got one drink too

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many i don't start having a fight or

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throwing stuff or being glued and over

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the top

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um if dancing and having a laugh is

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antisocial and that's about as far as my

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antisocial goes but i think when you're

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in another culture you should be really

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respectful of that culture the way they

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should be when they're here um i don't

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like it when i see it

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but no i don't think i am at all no

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never been guilty of it no

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i did used to go and follow manchester

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united quite a lot in europe away

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and um

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we there were a

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