Do you ever feel paranoid that foreign speakers are talking about you?

Yes, I think it’s possible at times.

No. Why is it all about you?

Only when they are up-to-no-good kids and are looking and pointing at me.

No.

Even if they are, so what?

Nah, I could care less.

People can talk about me if they want to. It really isn’t any of my business.

Only when they look at you, point, and laugh. What do I care, though?

I worry my parents speak about me in Russian. Actually, I know they do. Sometimes they would do it just to annoy me… >.< I wish I spoke Russian!

But no, I don’t think that strangers are talking about me. Only if they were pointing at me or something.

@DominicX Russian is easy to pick up! I only took a class and did Rosetta Stone, I can listen and understand better than speak (which is true for most languages for me)

I never fear it. I get the vibe sometimes, but I don’t care enough for it to bother me.

@casheroo

As soon as the class becomes available, I’m taking it in college. Along with Japanese. I can already read and write Russian and understand and speak some well-known phrases and sentences, so I hope it’s easy for me.

I never felt paranoid really. Who cares if they are talking about you?

I’ll just include a quote from Dr. Phil here to make my point.

You wouldn’t be so worried about what others think about you if you realized how seldom they really do. :D

Not paranoid but definitely curious (usually gossip) at least when under the same roof as me. I lived with Russians whose 1st language was Farsi so when they wanted to say something the rest of company wouldn’t get, me included they’d switch to Farsi. Any given night we might have people drop in for tea and visit and you’d overhear a mixture of English, Russian, Hebrew, German, Yiddish and Farsi in and out of conversations.