Hello! Like I said in the video, this is a completely new concept I wanted to try. Feel free to let me know below what you thought! Any constructive feedback is welcome :) :).
The first guy I feel a little conflicted about. In America I’ve been to many households where my friends’ parents would speak a different language unless they were talking to me specifically. So the idea of being uncomfortable around people speaking their native language in their house seems a bit odd to me. I guess it would make more sense for the guy to speak Norwegian though considering that it seems like he’s making people feel left out of the conversation for an oddly petty reason.
I disagree. If this was in an English speaking country and someone went "Just speak english" to say a native Spanish speaker people would be all over them.
If you demand that someone you don't even know only speaks the majority language in your presence because "this is [country] speak [language]", YTA 100%. However, if you refuse to speak a language you're proficient in to own your guest at your own dinner table because "my house my rules", not worrying a bit about making them uncomfortable, you're also a massive AH. It's just basic hospitality. And this guy doubles down afterward OMG what a jerk. If my kid brought home an anglophone love interest only for me to only speak French -- the minority language -- at the dinner table, I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror afterwards.
in my opinion if someone can follow a native speaker conversation (without contributing), regardless of whether they can speak or read, they know the language. I been learning Japanese for years now, still can't follow a native speaker conversation, however I can read manga and keep up with anime. with that I can't say "I know Japanese" instead, I would say "I'm learning Japanese".
It's quite ambiguous, right? I would tend to agree with you tbh. Otherwise I would say "I can read some [language]" or "I can speak a little bit of [language]" I think
I think it's easy to have an expectation of proficiency in English when it comes to Scandinavian countries. I don't think anyone is the "asshole" in this story, I think it's just an unfortunate collision of expectations. The father has some strange rules for someone living in a non-English speaking country. But on the other hand, this is a country known for English proficiency.
I think it's worth mentioning, I made a similar video once on a previous youtube channel of mine. In my case, I didn't expect the comments to be controversial, but in the end there were some comments disagreeing with me. I think overall this is a good thing, because it brings up discussion. But for youtube motivation it was horrible, because it made me feel like every video had to be researched in-depth in case of disagreement. And the effort is just too much. I ended up not posting again on that channel and made this new one, with the new goal of only posting simple videos that don't stir up many opinions. I mention this only because I enjoy your videos and I don't want you to lose motivation by making controversial videos.
