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so this happened last week and i am still not over it. met a guy on an app, first date at a tapas bar. we sit down and he starts chatting to the waiter in Spanish — fully fluent, completely natural, like it was nothing. the waiter then turns to me, says something, and my brain just... left. i panicked and said "sí, gracias" and smiled. he assumed i also spoke Spanish. i do not speak Spanish. i took it for two years in school and retained basically nothing useful.
for the rest of the evening he kept switching mid-sentence, and i laughed when he laughed, nodded a lot, tried to look engaged. at one point he asked me something directly in Spanish and i just said "totally" and looked at my drink. the next day he texted saying he loved how easy the conversation felt, that it was rare to find someone he could just switch with naturally like that. i stared at my phone for a long time.
we have a second date on friday. i've been using duolingo every day since and i have no idea how to come clean at this point without it being so much worse than just saying nothing in the first place. send help.

TL;DR: accidentally implied i spoke spanish on a first date. he's fluent. i am not. have a second date friday and no idea how to get out of this.

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