This is not your country.

[Gawdzillers]

My Latin teacher spoke Greek fluently, and often took trips to Athens just because.
We'd walk in class, and he'd call each of us by name, saying something ridiculous in Greek ("Your goat is backwards today, please adjust it") and we would just nod and smile.

He was awesome.

[RayvenQ]

Was it raki? LOL.

As a matter of fact...yes

[MoxisPilot]

My Latin teacher spoke Greek fluently, and often took trips to Athens just because.
We'd walk in class, and he'd call each of us by name, saying something ridiculous in Greek ("Your goat is backwards today, please adjust it") and we would just nod and smile.

He was awesome.

My French teacher way back in high school was Greek; she spoke about nine languages and liked to do the same thing as your Latin teacher!

They must be related. LOL.

[Chromatix]

No, I think saying incomprehensible things in languages other people don't understand is quite a common hobby.

[MergedLoki]

In defense of that, Greek is difficult (Greek alphabet, say wut?), and Greeks are very accomodating about speaking English (Everyone here speaks English. Everyone.).

But it's a COURTESY, not a RIGHT.

Totally not going to go shouting at someone for speaking the national language.

No need to shout. Unless you're somewhere WAY off the beaten path most ANY touristy destination will have people that can speak english.

But you can just ask politely, don't need to holler, But then... American. (and no i'm not bashing all you USA'ers. just seems my luck that the ones I've ever run into on vacation must be related to the SC in this post. Loud/rude.)

[Zombi]

Was it raki? LOL.

Oh god, I remember raki. Vaguely.