3. Have you been to France or a foreign country where you did not know the language? Did you have anxieties about speaking French with the native speakers? What did you do? Did you have any particularly embarrassing gaffes?
I went to Mexico my senior year of high school. My dad and his wife were going and invited me out of no where. I was very excited to go but I was worried I would not be able to speak to anyone. How would I ask where the bathroom was? Well, living in Texas has made it a little easy. We have a lot of Spanish influences already. I memorized bano... restroom when I went to a Mexican food restaurant. :) ha! Really though, it was not as bad as I expected. I guess it was a lot easier then going to France or Germany. Germany would be better then France because I took it two years in a row in high school, and it was fresher in my mind then. In all my trip was very enjoyable. I was in with all the tourists and most of the people that lived there knew English well enough we could converse with no problem. I would go back and I would love to learn more Spanish. I think I would have a lot better time and I would use it when I traveled there. It would be awesome to impress the people I would go with.
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So have you ever learned anymore languages and if not do you speak the ones you already now more fluently? Did you get in any weird situations were someone told you a word meant one thing and it truly meant something else? I have! When I was growing up I lived in a predominately Hispanic community and I was the minority. My friends all spoke Spanish and tried to teach me. They did a great job! Teaching me the bad words. They would tell me a word and say it meant one thing or not tell me at all. I would then go and try to say it and usually I would just get slapped. So I ended up learning to read body language and facial expressions to communicate with the ones that did not speak English. Also the old fashion finger pointing. Another experience I had with my friends that spoke Spanish was we went to Mexico and one guy tried to impress us and ended up looking like a fool. It was not the same language. I still want to learn Spanish though. I would love to learn sign language more though. I think it is more universal. If we all learned sing language there would be no communication problems. It would also eliminate a lot of frustrations when people travel abroad.
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