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Traveling is the perfect medium for experiencing different cultures complete with all sorts of art, music, crafts, and traditions. But visiting other countries is usually not just all roses.

With cultural differences in mind, artist Malachi Ray Rempen decided to share his traveling experience and situations in the form of funny comics dubbed "Itchy Feet Comic". This weekly cartoon drawings chronicle is mostly about travel, language jokes that happen while learning, and life as an ex-pat. It's just about any bizarre situation you can imagine yourself in while traveling.

"Itchy Feet Comic deals with two very specific areas: language learning and traveling. One of the things I love about these webcomics is the minute observations on the experiences that are so universal that you cannot help but say “That is so true!” - says the artist.

So scroll the page and have a quick walk around the world with the help of these funny drawings!

More info: itchyfeetcomic.com | Instagram | Facebook

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Eunice Probert
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah now that explains Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

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Kaisu
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a Finn, I can confirm this is 100% true. Finns are very particular about their personal space and you absolutely do not touch strangers if you can avoid it

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Tal Jamchi
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ahh yes,I recognize thi place, its the the maginificent city of Romeberlinathensparis!

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Erika Drewke
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup sounds about right. Having an american best friend is very eye-opening for both of us! They drive outside their state about once a year, out familytravels often means car and going through 7ish countries to get to our destination

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Ml7500
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a native French, I honestly admire people learning french : this langage is hard ! Therefore I would never make fun or faking not to understand just because is is not perfect. This comic shows a very parisian reaction you would probably not know somewhere else in France...

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fruit_panda
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The people of Montpellier were incredibly patient and kind with me. I think Parisians who are tired of tourists give the entire country a bad reputation. (Seeing the behavior of tourists around the world, it's hard to blame them.)

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Stefie Boop
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true :( First we do speak english (yes, yes) and we understand foreign accents because of all the people from the entire world who come to visit us all the time, please come to France to see by yourself...

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Ana B.
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is true. I'm on an exchange, and last week I was visiting l'Île de Ré. I ordered lemon ice cream and I had to repeat my order like 5 times because apparently I was saying the word "citron" just a TINY bit wrong.

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Leyla Abdulla
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, it's mad! I gave up my Duolingo French course, because no matter how I repeated the word, it wasn't accepted by the program. Wrong pronunciation? French had too many letters, written to not be pronounced, while imaginary ones are being spelled. I need more sense to a language.

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Dee Hunter
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Henry Higgins was right, eh? "The French never care what they say, as long as they pronounce it properly"

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Asia
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yes, try buying le baguette. But be ready to cut your heart out of shame because it's la baguette...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't get me started : I'm fluent in french since it was the first language I learned at home. Last time I was on a campsite in France the guy didn't get my request for ice cubes....

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

as a french speaker (native language is english), and having heard the plethora of ways different nationalities pronounce certain french words, I can fully understand why the french have difficulty understanding. The challenge is, just like english, french is not a phonetic language ie it doesn't look like it sounds. (eg "language" = "lang-widge". "phonetic" could be read as "phone-tic" or "p-hon-e-tic", whereas it is pronounced as "fon-et-ic". Same challenges with french)

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Carla Schan
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a similar experience in Quebec many years ago ordering beer.

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Goldameir Mektania
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so true! they don't tolerate imperfection in pronouncing every word. One time, a bus driver made me count 1 - 10 before finally took my payment and allowed me in the bus

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Vanessa Kidd
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a French native speaker, I genuinely think most people would not do this on purpose but simply don't understand. A friend of mine was telling me a story of her trying to order water in a restaurant and pronouncing 'leuu' (as in 'le'=the) instead of 'l'eau' (l'o) with no success. She thought it was a tiny difference in pronounciation, but I think the waiter was waiting for the word coming after 'le' {the what??).

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Kristen Nelson
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is utterly not what I experienced anywhere in France. I only speak a little French, but even in Paris nearly everyone was very warm and friendly.

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Edwin Quantrall
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Well the French don't care what they do, actually, so long as they pronounce it correctly." my-fair-la...d4817f.jpg my-fair-lady-1964-colonel-pickering-professor-henry-higgins-5cc3666d4817f.jpg

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Ashley Wright
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Parisians simply like to be jerks to tourists. I know; I’ve experienced it many times.

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Anne Heyroth
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was in Boulogne sur mer and people were incredibly kind and patient with my crappy French. A waitress even spoke a bit German!

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Amy Pittel
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was JUST talking about this earlier! I could not make a single server in France understand me when I asked for water.

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Julien Durand
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah ok. Just yesterday there was that friend of mine said to me “ Je voudrais des LU” (a biscuit brand (Lefebvre-Utile), of which I have some products at home), so I give him a pack and he said “no, des LU”, “it’s written on the pack in fat letters: LU” What he wanted was water: de l’eau. Pronunciation is important in French...

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Rob Napier
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pedant alert: the "be" is missing in the last picture. He needs to say "Bonjour!" first and why doesn't he say "please"?

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Saima Teague
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I asked for a flan in a bakery in Paris and was laughed at heartily for not pronouncing it correctly. I kept trying, they kept laughing. Part of the fun. I got my flan in the end, that's the important thing.

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Linda Robinett
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I cannot pronounce French probably because I have a Midwest accent and we love constanents

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Julien Durand
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Go to Northern France, those from there have an accent that I feel has some similarities to yours.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

random story: last time i was in france and i asked the waiter for a fork in french and they didn't understand, but when i said it in english they were like, "Oh! Yes! I'll get you one!" tbh this probably happened because my french is literal c**p but i thought it was suitable here

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

French has a lot of consonant words. Getting the pronounciation right isn’t a small thing. Now say someone pronounces « public » with a U that sounds like « Pubic », wouldn’t you laugh out ? ;)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is where Quebec gets fun: 'joual' (or 'Franglais') is mostly improvised on the spot, depending entirely on what words the speakers can remember at that moment and syntax goes straight out the window.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's where Quebec gets fun: joual seems to be mostly improvised on the spot, depending entirely on what words (or sound-alikes) the speakers can remember at that moment.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Americans are chronically sleep deprived. We need a constant infusion of coffee.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's very respectful to greet people in their native language when you travel abroad

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Translation: There's a nice cottage in the small valley just past the farm by the edge of the lake.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just so very accurate... (hardly anyone sings "zum Geburtstag viel Glück!")

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Similar in Hispanic countries. Tourists don’t know that you can bargain the price and get something for quite cheap—if you’re lucky that is.

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