I'm so irritated of people constantly trying to switch to Englishh when I'm trying to practice my TL.

I am a native english speaker, but I also speak my heritage language at a borderline native level.

Constantly, when i'm trying to practice my target language with other people, they constantly switch to english.

I lie and say that I don't speak english, i tell them that "I only speak my heritage language, and I speak a bit of their native language."

And still, they are constantly trying to switch to english.

It seems like their brain just switches to english, Whenever they feel like they arent understood enough in their native language. like some reflex.

And if youre going to tell me "ThEy CAn TeLL YoU SpEak EnGliSh."

I went down a rabbit hole with the help of two friends. They dont speak any English, Zero.

We joined some voice chats dedicated to language exchanging in my TL. I taught them some simple phrases in my TL like "hello, im new here. Im learning this language. Can you help me? I don't speak English"

And people would still switch to english. Sometimes they would just start monologuing in english and my friends would just be there completely oblivious to what's being said.