Q: Post about a time when you found yourself in Sedaris situation(#3). What were you trying to explain and why was it difficult? Was there anything humorous about the situation, or did you mostly feel frustration?
A: Actually I have no many foreign friends now, but I got interesting experience of communicating to foreign students in ESL classes. The teacher usually seperate us into several groups to talk and do some projects, during this time I always have difficulty to talk to some classmates. For example, when a Colombian student tries to explain a opinion to me, I can not understand, sometimes she doesn't want to say again. At this moment, I am a little bit embarrassed, and I hope that she isn't angry and say more about that.
Normally, I have difficulty to talk with the classmates from other countries. Especially, for us, sometimes we can not use our limitted vocabularies to explain what we really want say. We also had to pronounce more standard, clearly and slowly. For example, the same word a Japanese classmate says that sounds different from, even I can not get it at all if they say quickly.
Sometimes it is really difficult, and most of time I feel frustration about this. Because if others can not understand what you say, you are very frustrated at once, sometimes you are also afraid of that they don't want to listen to you contituely. But I found that only if we pay more patience to listen to, we can get or give confidence and understand one another eventually.
