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"It's been a very long week (...). We have been in Magalluf, but very bad, very bad. A very bad week. We are in Spain and they speak to us in a foreign language. It is a lack of respect that in Spain they speak to us in a foreign language."

These were the words of a Spanish tourist from Asturias when he was invited to comment on his stay in Mallorca by a reporter for the local broadcaster, IB3.

He added that he has no desire to return to the island because he and his family had been spoken to in a foreign language.

However, he didn't specify the offending language (or perhaps languages). As the stay was in Magalluf, an assumption is that he was referring to English. Or could it have been another language? Catalan maybe.

Responding to the IB3 broadcast, some people have commented that his words were an attack on Catalan. But others have pointed out that there isn't a great deal of Catalan spoken in Magalluf.

So - was it English?