Teaching A Broad
What do you call someone who speaks TWO languages? Bi-lingual. What do you call someone who speaks THREE languages? Tri-lingual. Q: What do you call someone who speaks ONE language? American. My Early Days as an ESL Teacher, 2009 That's me. A typical American. Raised on television, fast food, and fireworks. I used to think that people from Switzerland spoke a language called Swiss. I always figured that people from Brazil spoke Spanish. "Chinese" was a blanket term for anyone who looked or sounded Asian. I was a regular Yankee Doodle Dumbbell. And there I was, on my first day of work, standing in front of a room full of strangers from all over the world, none of whom spoke English. My job was to make them all talk. Speaking English has always been so easy for me. Piece of cake, right? If I had known that day that I was about to get myself into, I might not have gone through with it. I was halfway through college with lim