Are foreign language skills of any value in U.S. clubs?

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• Estafador

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  11 years ago

  If your in manhattan, there really is no need for language in strip clubs since they all speak english anyway. Most it'll do is impress the girl and give you one less marking as a PL. Hey, the illegal russian may even want to marry you since you can understand when she says don't touch you since her english sucks donkey dick. In queens same thing, but less shock value and no brownie points well except when your speaking with that one heavily accented spanish girl who you can't understand because she only says some words in english.
• Clubber

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  11 years ago

  sc, Never, I repeat NEVER ask vm to translate for you! :)
• rickdugan

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  11 years ago

  Shadow, excellent post. There are a couple of clubs in Dallas where Spanish is indeed very helpful as many of the dancers speak little English. It can also be helpful in a couple of clubs in Queens, NY, that are prone to hiring Latinas with little to no English. For that matter, I also club in some places where knowing Russian would not hurt either, especially with newer Russian dancers who have not picked up English yet.
• txtittyfan

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  11 years ago

  I think our greenbacks are a good universal language. Even with latinas with little English skills, I have never had a problem communicating my expectations.
• Ermita_Nights

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  11 years ago

  Spanish is so widely spoken these days I wouldn't suggest anyone assume they won't be understood just because they're speaking it. When I lived in Thailand I learned quite a bit of the language from the strippers I took home at night.
• sclvr5005

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  11 years ago

  Where I live in Nevada and where I often club in Cali , spanish is practically a requirement.
• vincemichaels

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  11 years ago

  LMAO, did it occur to you that I wasn't translating everything on purpose, Clubber?
• tenisbum1776

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  11 years ago

  I speak enough Russian to get by but nowhere close to a native speaker. I congigate verbs incorrectly and my accent is horrible but most Russians can understand what I'm saying. With the increasing number of strippers in the USA coming from the FSU (former soviet union) it has come in handy in strip clubs on occasion; mostly for the shock value. One night two FSU strippers were sitting at the table next to me. They were talking about me in their native language and I understood about 80% of the conversation. Finally one of them started to stand up and said to the other (in Russian) "I'm going to go see if the fat stupid looking American wants a dance". I turned and in my best Russian replied "I only LOOK stupid." The girl immediately stopped, her eyes as wide as saucers, turned around and they both walked away completely embarrassed. One night a stripper with the stage name of "Tatiana" approached me and with her best Rocky & Bullwinkle "Moose and Squrillel" Russian accent began talking to me, trying to make me believe she was of Russian heritage. A few simple replies in Russian and she finally smiled, gave me a kiss on the neck and said, "OK you busted me". Went on to teach her how to say several choice sentences like "You are very handsome" and "You have a big dick" to help her pull her deception off better the next time :-) One night in the private dance room at The Harem, I overheard a stripper giving specific instructions to a customer who was obviously a Mexican laborer in very native sounding spanish. The girl didn't look of latin decent at all so I'm sure she either learned it in school or from her family. Kinda surprised me a little bit.
• cnyknight

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  11 years ago

  Second Languages were never my stong subject in school but I can comment on times where dancers obviously spoke other languages so customers wouldn't know what was being said. Spanish - I think this is common but a lot of people speak Spanish so not as "safe" Ukraine / Russian Girls Ive been in an area where there were a lot of Portuguese women through most of the local clubs
• sinclair

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  11 years ago

  Went to Chicas Locas, formerly Michael's International, in Houston. Almost none of the dancers or custies spoke English. It was like walking into a portal and ending up in a club in Guadalajara. My busted up Spanish got me by. Most of the dancers seemed to be recent immigrants. Went to a club deep in Quebec. I had to speak French, as very few dancers had a decent knowledge of English.
• farmerart

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  11 years ago

  My second language is French. That language is of absolutely no benefit to me in USA clubs. I also have rudimentary conversational German. Again, no use at all in USA clubs. Like shadowcat and others have mentioned it can be of benefit to disguise one's knowledge of a dancer's language. At a Quebec club I didn't let on that I knew French to my chosen lapdancer until we were bargaining over prices. Jokingly, the dancer let forth with 'maudite tete carree' when she realized that I was not going to be conned into paying higher prices than necessary. It was my first visit to that particular club and I had learned the normal club practices and prices by eavesdropping on dancers' conversations in French at the bar before going for lapdances. Everything worked out fine after that but that first girl 'outed' me as a French speaker. All girls who approached me after that spoke French to me. One thing that I have never been able to figure out is this. How do quebecoise dancers ALWAYS identify me as an English speaker when I show up in a French speaking club?
• shadowcat

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  11 years ago

  Farmerart - It's either your lack of a beret or the fact that you are not rude. :)
• motorhead

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  11 years ago

  I have two requirements in dancers • blonde • the ability to converse in English Oral skills more important than oral skilz
• sharkhunter

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  11 years ago

  I never hear anyone speaking a foreign language in strip clubs. That is probably due to the fact I can usually only hear the DJ and whomever is right next to me. I once met a dancer from South America, I forget which country. We hit things off. She was even teaching me a few spanish words. I had fun repeating some of the words back to her such as the spanish word for pussy. The Russian girls I meet and other East European girls I meet always speak English. One dancer has on several occasions thought I pronounced my name as Victor not my actual name. That is now a giveaway to me that she isn't from around here.
• Estafador

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  11 years ago

  It sucks that japanese is only good for me at resturants. I don't thin I'll EVER see a japanese person at the strip club. Maybe if I go to cali...
• Dolfan

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  11 years ago

  Down here Spanish is helpful. Just Monday I was at two different clubs in Miami and couldn't converse enough with the girl to know if we were on the same page. Speaking the native tongue of a stripper can certainly grease the wheels, but I doubt its much more effective than green grease if you can get your point across.
• yndy

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  11 years ago

  @tenisbum1776- I'm impressed that you speak Russian. Would you mind sharing how you acquired that skill?
• tenisbum1776

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  11 years ago

  Two Russian wives and business interests in Moscow since 1997. I make at least 2 trips per year to Russia. My language skills are MUCH better after I've been there for two weeks and I'm forced to use the native language.
• jackslash

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  11 years ago

  I do well in strip clubs because I'm a cunning linguist.
• jester214

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  11 years ago

  I wondered how long it would take for someone to drop that gem jackslash
• lopaw

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  11 years ago

  Spanish and Russian seem to be essential to communicating in the clubs I hit up regularly. I've learned just enough in both languages to get me into, and then out of, trouble.
• pabloantonio

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  11 years ago

  In Texas, Spanish always comes in handy because as others have noted, many Latinas immigrate here from Mexico and Central/South America. Spanish has always given me a slight advantage in these situations. However, money is always the universal language.
• Clubber

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  11 years ago

  vm, At the time, no, but now, of course. Were I you, I would have wanted "G" for myself. :) Sad to say I've not seen her since. I think I told you I thought I saw her working in a bank once, but haven't seen that woman in that bank since.
• vincemichaels

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  11 years ago

  I was kidding, Clubber. I am fluent in Spanish, but the rapid rate of their talking creates problems in understanding them.
• DandyDan

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  11 years ago

  There was one club here in Nebraska where a good portion of the dancers were Mexican and you could speak Spanish with them. Apparently they found it was easier money to strip for English speaking guys than to slaughter cattle. That club is out of business. Other than that, the only place I ever went where Spanish was any use was the clubs in El Paso, which is next to the border, of course.
• Clubber

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  11 years ago

  vm, And just imagine how I must feel knowing a few spanish words and trying to follow anything. Of course, with "G", she used did some wonderful hand "signing", of which any man would "grasp" the meaning. :)
• ilbbaicnl

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  11 years ago

  Almost all the latina dancers I've met were Colombian or Venezuelan.
• she_is_covfefe

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  11 years ago

  YES!!!!! I speak five languages (well, five an a half 'cause I'm learning a 6th one), and that had made me good money.
• Alucard

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  11 years ago

  Can be.