Are the native speakers of the language you’re learning excited when you say you’re learning?
I live in the US and am currently learning Spanish and Turkish. With both languages, the native speakers that I’ve encountered have been so encouraging and enthusiastic - several have offered to be my language learning buddy and of those several, a few have become genuinely good friends of mine. Plus, I love how they want to hear all about how you’re learning, from where, why, etc.
I was curious to know if this is just par of the course when it comes to learning a language or if there’s some languages or some places where attempting to speak the language doesn’t really interest the natives. I had a friend tell me that he had a difficult time learning Dutch while in the Netherlands because how many wanted to speak English instead. Another said that they‘ve been discouraged learning French while in France because of mean comments from natives (though it unfortunately may have to do with the fact that my friend is an immigrant, not a tourist, and an Arab one at that).
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