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[quote=Anonymous]There are "trolls" on this forum who get a kick out of insulting and bullying other posters.  Don't give them the time of day.

I work with people who are bilingual/trilingual.  I don't mind when they switch to their native languages for a few sentences, which usually only happens when they are clarifying, translating, or explaining something with greater detail.  It lasts less than a minute.  
 However, I would feel differently if I were living with/hosting someone who carried on long conversations with other guests in our home, in a language that not everyone understood. It separates and isolates those from conversation who speak/don't speak the language, and it isn't a behavior I would condone in front of our children.  Our guests, our APs and her friends, should be mindful of everyone at the dinner table, or at a social event.  If they are that clueless about those they are excluding, they are probably also conversing about things that they otherwise wouldn't be or shouldn't be talking about if everyone at the dinner table understood them. 
Children in particular can be surprisingly adept at deciphering languages, and they might even infer a criticism towards them or their family in a foreign language.[/quote]

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