Mistaken identity

[suyongli]

I've gotten used to being asked if I'm French. Students are easily impressed, my fellow tutors can be quick to jump to conclusions (one thought I was French for over a year: I only found out when she asked why my English was so good!), and Francophones can become over-excited when they hear someone speaking French in Australia. (Or Germany, or

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[suyongli]

RPattz as Dalí? Bwahahahaha. That's gold. I must search for this! (Doesn't the moustache-twirling interfere with the sparkling?)

[suyongli]

OH WOW. It's a movie about Dalí, Buñuel and García Lorca. OTPTrio!

I'm a little weirded out by Dalí and Buñuel being played by non-Spaniards, but I'm sure they'd be amused.

[becsramsay]

At least they asked, rather than just starting to babble to you in Spanish / Italian...

[suyongli]

Actually, it went like this:
"Hola."
"Hola."
"Tienes clase ahora?"
"No, a las siete."
"¿A las siete? ¡Qué tarde! ¿Eres española?"
"No, soy australiana, pero estudió español en Francia."

Admittedly, it would have been hard to spot my markedly odd accent from two short sentences (one of which was just "Hola"), but I was still amused.

[becsramsay]

Hahahaha.

At least you speak it though!

Meanwhile, there's me sitting in the middle of a restaurant telling an old Spanish man "No habla Espanol!" and him then saying in English "bullshit"...

At least with Italian I have some idea what they're saying if they speak really, really slowly.

[pappubahry]

pero estudió español en Francia
Do they teach Spanish Spanish or Latin American Spanish in France? I should have asked some of my students while I was there. I'm mostly wondering how well they cope with the lisp.

[rinabooboo]

Gibbs does look funny with a mo!