English course

Yup I am taking an english course for many reasons, first of all I don’t have to pay it, second – I always feel inferior with my english and third – there is always a room for improvement. Though to tell you the truth I would prefer a Spanish course, so that I can communicate properly with the cleaning service maids instead of using Tarzan language. However, looking back to the days I tried to learn Deutsch – it turned out that I basically have no talent (nor patience) with languages. So let’s forget about it – have my english improved a bit is already such a big achievement.

It is easy to blame the local dialects (or the other person as the one who has insufficient english) when I have difficulties in understanding or making myself understood. Once in Scotland I visited an old man’s house for the purpose of interviewing, blabbing for 5 minutes to explain why I came just to get a response which sounds like – I don’t understand what you are talking about. Geee is it that bad (?), I did actually speak very slowly and as clear as I can. And most importantly, I spoke English and not Bahasa!!

Anyway, I recognize that what I need (in order to speak better English or shall I say American or Texan) is going out and meeting with the people, chat with them, absorbs their language (and dialect hopefully) so that someday I can sound a bit similar with them.

A positive thing about language difficulty is that I can tell someone over the phone (the telemarketers obviously) that I don’t speak English very well – and therefore they will hang up immediately hahaha