Artist Hilariously Illustrates The Differences Between Different Countries And Languages In 30 Comics

Makes sense *nods and makes notes*

Eheheheheh True.

Ah now that explains Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

Bingo!

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

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

Ha, I remember having this reaction

As a native Dutch, I confirm this is true :-)

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

I confirms 🤣🤣

Omg. Love this. So true

This would drive me crazy!

USA: OHHHH SAYYYY CANNN YOUUU SEEEE???

so true

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...

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.

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

Cafe the cat

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)

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

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??).

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.

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

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

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...

Hahahaha!!!

Certainly doesn't help for my french presentation

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

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.

I do this all the time

Siri: Go straight for 570240 feet. Your destination is on your left

Good play on words

Don't forget....a meal is eaten in HOURS, not minutes!

İ am Turkish. And i dont think this is true :/

Historic Building (est. 1965) hahaha

Bloody hell :)))

You gotta be quiet or you'll scare the fish

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

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

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

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

Whud'ja say?

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.

This is actually quite sad.