Signs at Spanish beaches warn English-speaking tourists to stay away

People in this threat also don't seem to realize how the island of Mallorca is full of foreigners, even some just living there, but nobody speaking Spanish. In fact it's probably easier to get around with German or English in the touristic parts of Mallorca.

This is not about some poor US tourist who wasn't good enough in school back home to learn Spanish. It's about huge crowds of rowdy UK and German tourists who go to "Malle" every year for partying and getting piss drunk without any consideration of the locals.

Are you counting by individuals or by volume?

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ITT people who didn't click on the article and understand that this was produced as a humourous way of promoting the campaign against overtourism, which is a significant issue in the Balearics.

UHH THERES SPANISH ON THE SIGN DUDE, DUH

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There isn’t a large influx of Spanish speaking tourists who demand that the locals speak in their language in the US. This is more akin to a shopkeeper blaring speakers with high pitched tones that only teenagers can hear.

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Yea especially when tourists often don't know about the local risks. Warning signs are mostly for people who aren't from a particular area

Don't want a 'boy who cried wolf' situation

On the flip side tourists are making entire regions unlivable for the natives through exploitation of economical inequality.

The latter really jumped out at me. I've definitely heard more than once "These careless tourists just ignored the signs!"

The title says Spanish beaches, not Spanish language.

The signs are found on Spanish islands.

The "learn a language before traveling" always seemed like gatekeeping to me. I've traveled a decent bit, and I would not have had the time to learn a dozen or so languages. Especially when you have to learn entire new writing systems. I'll learn a little bit while I'm visiting because I'm immersing myself.

if someone wants to study another language, all power to them. But it shouldn't be a barrier from experiencing other cultures.

The small text is in Catalan (not Spanish). I'm curious how many people learn more than Spanish before going to Spain .

So you'd be cool with people doing this in Spanish on Texas and Florida beaches right? And I mean people should definitely never travel to a foreign place without a decent grasp of the local language. Not like world exploration is something that can be a life altering experience. Or could help people empathize with different types of culture. Nope. Everyone should stay in their own little bubble. And honestly that applies to states, districts, etc. Hell even towns. Because Alabama and California are super different and have different customs. But even Houston and Austin Texas are way too different to go into each other's areas without having a firm grasp on local customs. Barcelona and Aragon are so very different that many of them don't even speak the same language. One of my neighbors and I don't get along real well. Perhaps we should really only stay in our houses.

Yeah, how dare they expect one of Europes most popular holiday destinations to make things easy for people speaking the de facto Lingua Franca worldwide.

On the topic, what do you recommend to learn another language for a trip. I have one next year and wanna try to be decent

Amazing amount of strawmans saying they need to learn the entire language and not a small amount of it, as you clearly stated.

How much is "a bit" ? I've got the hiragana, the katakana, a few Kanji and all the korewa, sonowa etc grammar rules. Will it be enough to visit Tokyo? No. But the way it works is sometimes a stupid attempt at speaking will trigger the "poor stupid helpless tourist" reaction that gets you help, which you won't get if you don't make yourself "vulnerable" as people say today, but do the opposite: implicitly demand that others make themselves vulnerable to you.