Somebody go find some more chairs.
Re: college courses, there is so much churn in the first couple of weeks that one’s enrolment status means almost nothing.
I remember liking it but I was just a kid. My mother watched it because she read all of the Ellery Queen books. I would never get the gender wrong because I remember Jim Hutton playing Ellery (Timothy Hutton’s father for those who don’t know).
I address her in English because i don’t speak Spanish. In foreign countries, i do a lot of smiling and pointing at the menu when i order.
If it turns out that she doesn’t speak English, i can smile apologetically and point at the menu in America, too.
I have a cleaning lady who is very thorough. Unfortunately, we can only communicate via Google Translate.
I do tell her “Muchas gracias.” I do not think that “Viele Danke” would work as well.
Re: college class, my answer is “get over it”. Presumably almost all of these people are young and healthy and perfectly capable of standing or sitting on a floor for one class period. They are also adults and presumably capable of negotiating seating arrangements among themselves. Even if there were some significant injustice here, it certainly wouldn’t be the professor’s job to police these disputes.
If an already-registered student feels wronged, the appropriate recourse would be to take it up with the school’s administration, and suggest that they remedy it by moving the class to a larger room, dispatching security to check registration status and hold back the flood of squatters, or other such measures as may be deemed appropriate to prevent such outrages in the future.
I’d speak spanish because I would want to practice my spanish.
I’ve never even heard that in German. Is it a regional thing?
Perhaps? I am relying on my knowledge of a language I’d not spoken in thirty years.
I do probably know just barely enough Spanish to order tacos – I was able to successfully order empanadas in Spanish when I was in the Galapagos last spring. But in the situation in the poll I probably wouldn’t think about it and just order in English out of habit, and because I would be embarrassed by my bad Spanish.
But the poll got my thinking, of the fillings available at a typical California taqueria, my favorites are asada and carnitas, which are Spanish words anyway. So no matter what I would actually be using a little bit of Spanish.
I speak some Spanish but I wouldn’t want to assume that every Latino person does, therefore I order in English. I’m also very nervous to speak Spanish with people due to social anxiety.
I use a Spanish accent for the menu items, though!
Right. I throw in a Gracias and a Buenos Noches but those most Americans understand anyway.
I can order a few things, and ask where the bathroom is, but I have lost what little is used to have.
I chose the “English not to offend” option but actually I would speak to her in English first because I don’t know if she speaks Spanish, may be she doesn’t, it seems a bit prejudiced to assume she speaks Spanish because she’s latina and works in a Mexican restaurant.
I’d probably ask her in English if she speaks Spanish and if so then continue in Spanish.
I will use the words on the menu 
But I’ll say, “may i please have” in English.
Well gee! What’s Spanish for taco, enchilada, burrito, carnitas, chili verde…?
I’d speak a mix. Spanish greetings and thanks, which she’ll understand, and then whether I continue in Spanish or in English depends on how she replies. So far, nobody seems to have minded, and my effort to speak Spanish often gets me vocabulary and grammar pointers.
Maybe I know enough menu Spanish to order. But if she assumes I know more Spanish than I do then I’m quickly over my head. I would start in English since this is America and I’ve never been in an ethnic restaurant where the point person doesn’t know enough English to take an order.
When I was stationed in Germany my Speisekarte Deutsch was decent and I would try to order in German. Usually their English was better than mine.
I liked the episode but that flashback could’ve been an email.
It too long to impart too little information.
Oops, wrong thread, this should be in the “A knight of the seven kingdoms” thread 
Well, I say the second New Moon after the northern hemisphere’s Winter Solstice , but yes, that is the Lunar new year and this year a few other holidays. Fat Tuesday, for example. Ramadan.