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Q: How to request people to help me speak a language without imposing it on them?

NederlandsZitVolGevarenI'm an Indian student who recently moved to the Netherlands to study. I'm intending on it becoming my permanent home at some point. While I was in India (and when I briefly moved to the US with my dad), I practiced Dutch through Duolingo and Clozemaster and was comfortably at an A2 level, but I u...

Hmm. Interesting. I didn't get the impression Dutch people switch to English as easily as that question suggests :|
Does look like a nice first question though :)
 
1 hour later…
16:21
@Tinkeringbell Yep, that's a nice first question indeed! (and a nice answer, but I'm more impressed by the fact that it's a nice first question :p )
@Ælis Same here :)
@Tinkeringbell I might have an explanation for this. I once traveled to Columbia where people were speaking "Latin Spanish". My English level was very good where my Spanish one wasn't really that good. However, when some people over there were trying to speak to me in English, I would quickly switch back to Spanish because their Spanish accent was so strong, I was unable to understand their English (while I was still able to understand their Spanish).
So, I'm thinking, maybe OP has a really terrible Dutch accent
@Ælis Hmm. I think that if they speak Dutch, their Indian accent/language profience is worse than for English, so people switch to English and stick with it... I don't know if that's the same point you were making ;)
@Tinkeringbell Yep, that's was mostly my point :p
Oh good, then I agree! :D
16:29
Glad to hear :p And how are you doing? Are you back from your holidays?
Yep, vacation is over. After the weekend, I'll be back to work on Monday.
To be honest... I think I might be glad when vacation is over... it wasn't quiet enough. I'm now enjoying a quiet weekend and crochet :)
How are you? Did you survive the holidays? :D
The holidays were nice. This last week had been quite lonely, though. I was back to work (remotely) and there were not many people to chat with in TAS. So, I'm glad everyone is coming back from their vacations :p
Awww. I'm sorry!
I'll be back to chatting full force on Monday ;)
Yay \o/ :D
And also, don't be sorry, you all deserve a break from me from time to time :p
Woah!
(I do wish more people had that amount of self-knowledge though :P )
I don't mind hanging out here with you :)
16:37
@Tinkeringbell x)
@Tinkeringbell :D <3

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