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October 30, 2003

LANGUAGE BARRIER

Conversation between a manager and a French exchange student this morning during a pre-meeting chat, with myself and a colleague in the same office around the same desk, listening intently.

Manager (to French student): "So how long will you spend here?"
Student: (long pause, vacant look, visibly struggling for vocab) "errrrr, eez seeks munths"

Manager: "So you've been here for how long already?"
Student: (even longer pause, fear seeping into her trembling eyes) "errrrr, arrround four munths"

Manager: "So you've got two months left then?"
Student: (massive long pause, smile) "no".

Manager: "Okay, I think we'll leave it there shall we?"

Posted by jonola14 at October 30, 2003 8:54 PM