I'm just popping in to share something...
Do you know that video "but we are speaking Japanese!" and the fenomenon of the Japanese responding to their native tongue in English? 
I was so irritated by it's mere existence, even though I never experienced it, cause I'm going to Japan soon...
And then it hit me; my neighbour is Italian. He just moved in recently and he's  learning Polish. 
I was thinking about the fenomenon earlier that day, and he greeted me in Polish just a few hours later. I was taken aback for a moment and then I said "hello".
;_;;;
So I started thinking about it and realized that none of us Poles in the building (3 families) really know his last name. We call him mister Italian (in Polish).
Am I going to hell???

[Zgarbas]

Japan only stands out cause it has a lot of middle-class Westerners talking about it. It's a normal phenomenon in any country. I do feel sorry for the foreign-born Japanese people but it is by no means an isolated phenomenon.
You should try talking to your neighbour sometimes; i'm sure he'll be glad about it

I used to hang out with an Italian plumber back in the 90s, never knew his last name. Turns out, it's Mario. His full name is Mario Mario.

[Zgarbas]

^ reality is stranger than fiction.
Did he ever go 'its'a me, Mario'?

(2016-06-21, 3:01 pm)Stansfield123 Wrote: I used to hang out with an Italian plumber back in the 90s, never knew his last name. Turns out, it's Mario. His full name is Mario Mario.

lol It reminds me of this meme (if anyone is offended, gomen):

You're only going to hell if you don't mend your ways.

Whenever I notice something I do like this, I'm not upset at myself for doing it, so much as I am happy that I noticed it and can now work to address it.

So next time he says hello, give him a big hello back and ask him how he is

(Yesterday, 1:28 am)NinKenDo Wrote: You're only going to hell if you don't mend your ways.

Whenever I notice something I do like this, I'm not upset at myself for doing it, so much as I am happy that I noticed it and can now work to address it.

So next time he says hello, give him a big hello back and ask him how he is

Haha, that's the problem! He said cześć and I went with a big hello!

Thumbs up for mister Mario Mario!

It's interesting, cause when I go to other Slavic countries I speak Polish and the locals answer in their native language and we just get along like that... When I went to Ireland (the only English speaking country I ever visited), everybody assumed I can speak English. Same goes for France and French. 
I visited Cyprus this year and after a day I felt like if anybody comes up to me speaking Russian (and I don't mean Russians cause that's fine), I'm gonna implode. 
I can't wait to see what it's really like in Japan...

I'm thinking of an excuse to come up to Mister Italian and sort it out with some jak się Pań miewa ;_;

It's much worse when you get it the other way around.  I have several friends who were born and raised in the US, but occasionally get people coming up to them on the street asking if they speak English or talking slow and enunciating like you do for foreigners and children.  That's gotta get old after the 3rd or 20th time.

(Yesterday, 2:57 am)Kwiateczek Wrote:

(Yesterday, 1:28 am)NinKenDo Wrote: You're only going to hell if you don't mend your ways.

Whenever I notice something I do like this, I'm not upset at myself for doing it, so much as I am happy that I noticed it and can now work to address it.

So next time he says hello, give him a big hello back and ask him how he is

Haha, that's the problem! He said cześć and I went with a big hello!

Heheh. A big cześć then

(Yesterday, 2:57 am)Kwiateczek Wrote: I can't wait to see what it's really like in Japan...

It's actually not that bad but there is one obvious situation where you are going to run into this. If you speak using Japanese words but not in Japanese sentences in the same phrasing, pacing, and intonation as a native then you might get English back. When your Japanese sounds like you are expending great effort to speak it, then you are likely to get that favored returned by them taking great effort to answer in English.