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.