Me: "Hi, are you working in this community?"
WG [with blank look of incomprehension]: "Sweden."
Me: "Oh ok. So, do you work here?"
WG: "I don't know."
My English has gotten so bad even other foreigners can't understand me!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Speak Engrish?
A couple days ago, another foreigner (a white guy) came into the restaurant where the teachers and I usually eat. Sometimes tourists come with a group to see the long neck village nearby, but otherwise there aren't many foreigners wandering around by themselves here unless they work for an NGO or something like that. I'd never seen him before so I thought I'd strike up a conversation. This is how it went:
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