Dude: If I added up all the languages I spoke shitty, I could probably speak one very fluently.
–Prospect Park Southwest & Vanderbilt
Loud guy on cell: Does she speak German? How do you say ‘Fuck you’ in German? … Okay, bye!
–Butler Library, Columbia University
Overheard by: Eric
Cop to others: So I said, ‘What’s your name?’ This guy don’t speak good English, you know?
–G train stop
Black guy to another: Want me to speak another language? ‘Cause I can speak other languages — Chinese, German, Arab, white…
–42nd & 8th
Overheard by: Andrew B.
Girl on cell: And he’s from Sweden, right? Well, yeah. I mean, I’m assuming since he said he speaks Swedish and all… which, honestly, I didn’t know was a real language.
–NYU dorm
Little foreign girl: Auntie, what’s English for ‘horse’?
–J train
Overheard by: MyTh
Gray-haired man to barista: Is tall ‘small’ in your language?
–Starbucks
