So finally after a few days we managed to have a nice international party in a club called Block 17. To give you some insider information the block mostly plays alternative and maybe harder music, but you can sit there and have a conversation.
That is the reason we decided to go there. The club had some kind of discount on beer, so I was drinking it. I am living on a budget after all:) And I found out that you can actually get used to beer, the only problem is that it takes a lot of time. Also one guy from Tunisia was so I got a chance to improve my German skills. Or maybe I should say Lack of my German skills. Anyway after 25 minutes of talking with him, he did some kind of budha test/asking me what kind of animals I like, and colours and blah blah blah/ and after that he told me we are perfectly similar to each other and winked at me... I was like OK, you know the best and got lost in the crowd:) When I met him a few minutes later he asked, what was my religion. After my answer he told me sadly: " You know what, I think our relationship wouldn't work, we are too different, I am sorry." I think I do not have to say you I was crestfallen:).
When I joined the international group there was a conversation led only in German. Which was a little strange, because only me and Anna/Slovak girl:)/ are fluent in German. So imagine 6 people shouting at each other German phrases like Was sagen sie? Wie geht es dir? and so on. And I mean SHOUTING really loud. There were many Germans looking at what is happening and why the strange people are speaking with so horrible accents. I got to know many Germans that night, which was a good thing after all.
But in the end of the night came a cold shower. I was talking with a Scottish girl and some Germans about accents. They were asking the Scottish girl what she thinks about their accents. Whether they are more British or American. The answer wasn't really what they expected. She looked at them and started laughing really hard. After a while she told them: " You have so nice German accents." They weren't really happy with that answer. So I asked her what was my accent like, because usually people tell me I have an American one. And she told me, she had to think first and then she told me: " Your accent is really..... hmmm how to say it.... Slovakian:)."
Let me just advice you, never ask a native speaker about your accent. You may not like the answer:).
PS: THANKS A LOT for the comments. I appreciate it:)
Monday, October 16, 2006
It wouldn't work out anyway...
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During the last party I got nice compliment as well- that I have Spanish accent. I thought I would be killing, because we both know what does it mean to have Spanish accent when speaking English:-) So would you like to change???:-) ola
...so you drank bear, I mean beer, hm?...:o)...I know it's one of your favourites.
When I arrived to London this summer I went to buy a busticket to take me to the center...after a few words with the driver (obviously an English gentleman) he asked me, whether I'm Scotish..."ah...no",I said.
"Good, 'cuz Scotish are rubish..."
:o)...well, I can forgive him that, because it was a time of the football World Cup and the two nations are great rivals...
...but...I thought, I was speaking more of a...American, "you know...", this just sometimes happens...:o)
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