r/BeAmazed • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 17h ago

Miscellaneous / Others Dog-sitter in Luxembourg tests which language the dog understands

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u/--ofsalt 16h ago

My ex was Norwegian, I went there as an ignorant Brit and for some reason the whole "language barrier with dogs" thing broke me 

On the plus side, i know at least as much Norwegian as a dog does! 

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u/EatAnyGoodBooks1701 15h ago

My ex is Welsh and deaf. Her dog knows words and commands in English, Welsh and British Sign Language. It’s honestly quite incredible.

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u/Less_Parking2670 13h ago

Our dog "speaks" English, Czech and Finnish + understands many gestures. Outside commands, I speak her mostly English (you know, when just talking something random) and if I instead use Finnish, she looks at me like I suddenly went crazy. So I think she understands much more than she lets us know.

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u/xeio87 12h ago

My cats can ignore commands in any language.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 12h ago

Truly elite polyglots

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u/aceshighsays 9h ago

my dog's the same. i've accepted his agency.

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u/NeoGnesiolutheraner 12h ago

Czechia mentioned!

If I might ask, since this is a quite interesting combination, how come your dog speaks Czech and Suomi?

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u/Ahand_Apart 7h ago edited 7h ago

I think your dog understands cadence and body language.

Do a count-in for each of those languages and notice how you have the same cadence despite being in a different language.

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u/DrEpileptic 4h ago

My gf still thinks my mother’s dog only speaks French. I haven’t had the heart to tell her the dog knows English and just doesn’t like her that much.

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u/Emmanuelzappa 2h ago

🤣😂

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u/wherethestreet 8h ago

They’re all just finger movements to a dog though.

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u/pwntahontas 4h ago

Dogs are body language experts. Once you learn their cues you can start to communicate with them on purpose. Simple stuff like the "play bow" that dogs do with each other, you can do the same with your dog.