YJ was just here for her English lesson, she does really well, although she does not like words with TH… Have you ever seen the clip about the sinking ship requesting help from a German sub station. the German soldier manning the radios confuses sinking with thinking. I always think of that clip as I’m trying to encourage her to pronounce words that start with “th”. (if you have never seen the clip go to YouTube, I know you can find it there)
I had one more great experience at YJ home last week that really thrilled me. She was telling us how one day she wanted to take me and the mother of the kids I'm teaching, out for a cultural experience of some sort. Something like the smoking gardens. –(They smoke apple leaves or other fruit type things mixed with or with out tobacco in those contraptions the caterpillar smoked in Alice in Wonderland).
My friend said “but I have only seen men there.” Yj agreed that here it is only men who go but she went to one in Saudi where her husband is from and loved it. She then went on to explain how in Saudi you can go to this cafe and smoke. There is a family section where women may go, or there is a men's section for single men only; as they would not allowed to mingle with women who are not their wives or other close relatives. At this point in the conversation my friend turned to me in order to translate Yj’s words. I listenedd to the English translation then proudly proclaimed “I got that! I understood the Turkish or most of it anyhow.”
You know that verse about pride coming before a fall or the superstition about knocking on wood….well that was the last phrase I actually grasped out of the whole conversation…but still it was a start!
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