I'd personally start from answering the question: "How does this directly affect me?". I'd ignore the feel of someone being wrong and try to understand the dire

I'd personally start from answering the question: "How does this directly affect me?". I'd ignore the feel of someone being wrong and try to understand the direct impact -- how much do you believe you miss out. Then act based on it. > I don't want to be the asshole to ask people to speak in English What's the office policy? > or make my manager be that guy either. It's their job. Yours is to communicate an issue to them, theirs is to see how to resolve it (if at all).