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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they are speaking across the room and having full conversations in full view of others who can't understand deliberately when they can use English, yes it is rude.

I am bilingual, though don't speak Spanish. My father always told us when we were kids not to speak in our native language in front of others who couldn't understand unless it was just a few words because it is rude and I have always followed that.[/quote]
+1, I grew up ESOL too and my mother taught me the same thing.
I will admit, DH and I speak our 'native' language to each other when we want to talk about people or if we want to say something snarky and we are in public. We also use it when it is convenient to speak privately in a public place (for example, negotiating at a car dealership) and don't want the other person to know what we are saying. However, I would never speak anything but English at work. It seems exclusionary and rude to do otherwise.[/quote]

Don't always assume that the car salesman (or whoever you are trying to exclude) does not speak your language...
I don't look Hispanic, and I've had people speak Spanish to each other in front of me, not knowing that I understood every word.[/quote]
Actually this has happened to me too and I thnk I look Hispanic but have been told I look Asian. ???? [/quote]

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