C6 - Wedmesday, September 8, 1982 - North Shore News YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS When English is a foreign lan: “We think that because English is taught as a second language in many foreign schools that “Everyone speaks English. ” A Chinese friend of mine recounted her horror, after studying several years of “English” at school in Hong Kong meeting her first American. $ “I couldn't understand a could see Pablo's hand- mean “Affirmative.” uncommon and a dictionary 14 Gays, tangs? word he said! And the only _ a | writing, you'd be surprised A notebook and pen is will get things straight. Air & Hote! thing I could say that he -_ }- that he got the tea at all.) handy to have on hand How my foreign friends LAS VEGAS $949 understood was ‘How do you ¥ e Many foreign people because many people can have loved learning English 5 Days. 4 Nights. Alr& Met do?’ ” The problem was with a” speak a lot more English read English betterthan they slang and profanity. After + SONGS. eo - her instructors, who learned wise than theyll let on. Its ‘Peak it. Print your all, what English textbook [Doo S199 their English from other - WY. _ usually not arrogance that duestions because styles of gives the word “ass” for ENO Chinese. Who can blame | keeps them silent but a fear handwriting are much anything but a donkey? ys. 4 Nights. Air & Hotel - them if a few pronoun- of being laughed at by us. different overseas. They've. latched onto ciations got changed, lost or destroyed? The quality of English instruction in Italy can be unique. As a visitor, I was asked by a friend's 10-year- some sentences in a wants to show off his ex- ‘hrough the book for, the necessarily impaired. Quit 736-3 59 workbook. Together, we cellence in English. appropriate answer. bellowing and slow down — i out his sub- had a good number marked wrong and he'd been forced to change them to some of the most strangled English Pve ever seen. Conversely, people who learn French in Western by ‘Barbara McCreadie accents too difficult but that’s because Ive been listening to foreign-accented case it is rude not to. My Argentine friend, Pablo, found himself in a small pub in Scotland. It took him an agonizing time to order a simple“cup of tea” and he had to resort to writing his order. (If you Ive heard some mighty scrambled phrases but by following my two rules: 1 - concentration, 2 - interrup- tion, it’s generally worked out OK. The other extreme is the person in a crowd who Imagine the problem with a young student of English, surrounded by his non- English-speaking family. He has to prove that all those pesos paid for his eduction were wisely spent. Don’t be the tourist who lets him down! thank him graciously and beat a retreat — even if you couldn’t make out a word he said. foreign countries exhibit is the habit of preceding every reply with “Yes”. As in, “Yes, we have no bananas.” The “Yes” is also used to allow them time to phrase their answer and you can get flummoxed if you take it to If all else fails, you can try a phrase book — pointing to the question which is written in both languages. Hope that: a) your listener can read, and b) he’s got the time and patience to search roseway Even with friends of mine who hae a fairly good grasp of English, I’ve found a bilingual dictionary helpful. We tend to get into cultural and political discussions where the only words to describe the action are phrases like, “The whole ball of wax” with glee and use them liberally. Sometimes in the right context. 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