I kinda have this weird idea where I would hypothetically visit China (where I was born) some time in the future (like as a tourist), then I would go chat up some random foreigners in China, and pretend I don’t speak English, then later reveal I do speak English, and then they’d be so surprised like “OMG this Chinese person speaks perfect English?” (because I immigrated to the US as a kid). I kinda want to do this as a prank. I mean I know it sounds silly, but its like the reverse of those youtubers that learn Chinese and surprise Chinese people. I mean, they’d probably eventually figure out that I was grew up in a English speaking country, but its still funny to do this as a prank to confuse people (especially people who’s native language is Engish) 😅.
Anyways… what’s are your stories (or even hypothetical scenarios) involving languages that you want to share?
At work the table next to me was empty so a supplier guy from Poland sat down there for the week he was working with us in Sweden. After a couple of days he got more and more frustrated. We only spoke in English because there were always someone else around.
At the end of the week he called his colleagues in Poland and told them:
“Those Swedish guys are so stupid, they don’t get it, they want us to take 9 women and give birth to the baby in one month!”