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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are very clear in matching, handbook, and training that we expect APs to speak English with their friends in front of us.  The only exception is when a friend (or family member) comes to visit and doesn't speak English.  If a friend is an AP, then we expect both of them to speak English in front of us and the children.  No one wants to feel like an outsider in their own home or car by not understanding the discussion.

No one has had a problem with this.  Our APs can have friends over as much as they want, so this is a small price to pay.[/quote]

omg lol wait what really

i guess since i speak german it bothers me less but i don't expect people to speak my language just because i'm also present [/quote]

Thats called being polite not excluding people from conversation when visiting someone's home. Its one thing if the other person doesn't know English but to intentionally speak another language is rude.[/quote]
Is it rude to speak English in a Mexican or Vietnamese restaurant

It's definitely an asshole move to ban an entire language from your home

Seriously you just suck as a human. Not as a host mom, not as a MB, as a member of the human race[/quote]

What are you even talking about? No one is banning any language from being spoken. We are simply asking that when an AP has friends over and she is hanging out with us - in the kitchen with us, in the car with us - that they speak English so that all who are present are included. This is simply called good manners. She can chat away in her home language all she wants in any other room in the house and any other time she wants, but when she has a friend over and is with one of her host children, it can make the child feel left out not to understand the conversation going on around her.

Please save the drama about people sucking as humans. Save that for Assad and others. Asking people to have manners isn't sucking as a human.  [/quote]

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