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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, even with same language, people do feel bored during long family get togethers but they manage. You can too but you've to be more interested/interesting, engaged and less judgmental. [/quote]

How can OP be interested in a conversation they can't understand? Would you be interested in sitting through multiple films in a language you don't understand? Oh, you wouldn't? Why ever not?[/quote]

Well, foreign language films really can open you up to a whole new world. If OP can't skip altogether or leave early then she better find ways to engage and get others engaged. May be just learn the darn language.[/quote]

OP here - have you ever learned a foreign language (not Spanish, but let's say Finnish or Turkish or Chinese, one very different from English) well enough to converse and follow native conversations in a social setting? I have.  Twice. It takes many years of dedicated study, plus a whole lot of immersive practice.  I don't have time or money to spend on classes and I don't think a handful of dinners each year counts as immersion. Learning a foreign language when you don't live in the country is a very difficult and resource-consuming process. It's not a realistic thing for me to do at this point in my life. Keep in mind that knowing a few words would not help - these people are engaged in rapid-fire conversation with each other, whose company they much enjoy, and wouldn't bother re-explaining things to a beginner or even intermediate speaker. [/quote]

This is so accurate and it always amazes me that people don’t get it or imagine a year of weekend classes might lead to being conversational. [/quote]

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