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Pork said:
C2james said:
I would say the same a few years back, then I met some of my American counterparts. One asked if I knew the Queen (OK, do you know the President then?) and another said London was an Island.I firmly believe the above could very easily be genuine.
Another person I came across knew I was from South Africa, and at some point ran off into another room in their house and returned a few moments later with a globe. They spun it around, stopped it on Africa, and then pointed at the country all the way down at the bottom of Africa. "I didn't realise it was all the way down there!" she said happily. I just couldn't pass up this opportunity and said that I thought the name kind of gives it away...
Neither were idiots though, just ignorant about some country afew thousand miles away that briefly became a useful quiet ally when the USA wanted communism out of Angola. Both were pleasant conversations with people genuinely interested in hearing about this far away land that I had travelled from, and about my pet lion, and why am I not black?
C2james said:
that cant be real.
I remember being in Amsterdam many years ago, I got chatting to an American girl who was in the US army.I told her I was from London, after about half an hour of chatting she commented that my English was really good, and did I learn it at school. She was really shocked to find out we speak English in London.
Then she asked me if we have an army too.
Never under-estimate how little some Americans know about other countries!
reggie82 said:
She was really shocked to find out we speak English in London.
I had something similar. Got talking to a group of Americans, whilst in America, and was asked if I was having any trouble with the English language.One of my cousins who is English, but was brought up in the USA and has an American accent, was commented on by a friend, when her origins were discovered, that it must be great to speak two languages. Not sure what language she thinks is spoken in England.
I've also been asked by an American if England was anywhere near Russia.
jamesson said:
I had something similar. Got talking to a group of Americans, whilst in America, and was asked if I was having any trouble with the English language.
One of my cousins who is English, but was brought up in the USA and has an American accent, was commented on by a friend, when her origins were discovered, that it must be great to speak two languages. Not sure what language she thinks is spoken in England.
I've also been asked by an American if England was anywhere near Russia.
Last ime I was out there "gee I LOVE your accent! Where are you from, Canada?" I'm pretty damn English sounding.One of my cousins who is English, but was brought up in the USA and has an American accent, was commented on by a friend, when her origins were discovered, that it must be great to speak two languages. Not sure what language she thinks is spoken in England.
I've also been asked by an American if England was anywhere near Russia.
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