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[quote=Anonymous] If they are already speaking Spanish and you walk into the room and they continue/finish their conversation, I don't think it's that big of a deal.  However, it does seem rude if they start a conversation with you sitting right there in Spanish and ignore you.  Like if you all come in and are waiting for a meeting to start and they start chatting or making small talk in Spanish and you sit there staring at them.  Or what has bothered me in the past in a similar situation was when I was talking to one person and another person comes up and starts speaking in Spanish (when that person and the person I'm talking too speak English perfectly well).  It's just rude to all of the sudden exclude someone who was previously involved in the conversation!

I also once had a boss who spoke another language and would take personal calls right in the middle of us discussing something (heaven forbid so call her friend back in a few minutes) and would talk in the foreign language freely with her friend knowing that I couldn't understand and wasn't able to understand her personal stuff.  Since I couldn't understand she would talk and talk and talk.

I don't think you sound like a bigot like one of the PPs said.  You sound like a person who is a team player and wants to have a good relationship with your co-workers but can't because they exclude you![/quote]

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