The other day my Thai co-teacher and I sat in the office grading dictation. She received a phone call. She talked in Thai for a minute and jotted down a couple words, then hung up.
She poked me in the shoulder and asked, “how do I pronounce this?” She held up the paper and pointed to a word that looked like gibberish.
“I don’t think that’s a word.”
“Yes it is, its French, I just need to know how to pronounce it!”
“Oh, I’m sorry,” I explained, trying to be helpful, “I don’t speak French, but Simone does, you should ask her.”
“I don’t have time to ask Simone, I’m busy, can you just tell me how to say it???” She asked, seeming angry.
“Um, I’m really sorry, I don’t speak French and I don’t recognize the word,” I said, getting annoyed, “Would you like me to guess?”
To this she rolled her eyes, whirled around, and stomped out of the room.
I sat in stunned silence for a moment, before muttering to myself, “Did she just get mad at me for not being able to speak French???”
The student teacher sitting next to me, having witnessed the exchange, erupted into giggle. We both had a good laugh.
Weird.
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