A popular method of practicing English in China is to choose famous speeches or monologues from movies and memorize them. Neil and I are looking at a map of the US, choosing destinations for his trip to the US this summer.
Neil: Oh look, Texas. They lynch Negroes in Texas.
Me: What?!?
Neil: It's from the movie, The Great Debaters.
Me: Sweetie, I gotta explain something to you...
Here's something lighter. Candy and I are looking at the map of the US, preparing for her to go to high school in Tampa, Florida next year.
Me: Here's Tampa. Here's LA, Washington DC and New York. I come from here, Portland. That's the best city. Here's Forks, where vampires come from.
Harmony: Where's Denmark?
Me: Denmark?
Harmony: Wait, never mind, that's in Europe.
1 comment:
It's so nice to know American's aren't the only ones that have a very poor sense of geography.
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