Should you whisper if speaking a foreign language?
Jan 18, 2015, 3:54 pm
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Should you whisper if speaking a foreign language?
When in another country that speaks a different language, I tend to whisper to the person I'm traveling with. I wonder if sign language is hard to learn. On the other hand, sign language attracts too much attention.
Jan 18, 2015, 3:59 pm
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No, I don't. Why would you think about having to whisper? People in other countries are aware about the existence of other languages.
Jan 18, 2015, 4:31 pm
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What would you be talking about that would require you to whisper?
Jan 18, 2015, 8:52 pm
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In similar circumstances I just communicate in Morse code using eye winks (left eye = dash; right eye = dot). Usually it works out fine, though once I got beat up when a man thought I was trying to flirt with his girlfriend.
Jan 19, 2015, 12:43 am
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) speakers should whisper everywhere they go. And look furtive. Exercises the public's paranoia 
Jan 19, 2015, 2:31 am
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My wife is American and most of our travel is in Europe. She whispers because she doesn't want to attract the attention of other 'murricans who upon hearing her accent tend to bellow 'Say where u frum?' at an obnoxious volume.
She's taking classes in Glaswegian as an alternative
She's taking classes in Glaswegian as an alternative