I live at the university i attend, but even when I didn't there were a ton of international students roaming the streets and malls. I'm a regular looking kind of fat white guy, and there is nothing more enjoyable than using the fact that I speak Mandarin Chinese to eavesdrop on the bus, and sometimes get involved in hilarious conversations.
Usually it's boring stuff but once in a while you hear girls talking about yeast infections, which itself wouldn't be funny OR interesting, unless you get off the bus with them and call your wife, speaking Chinese into the phone, giving away the fact that you heard their entire gory conversation.
Yesterday a group of kids were joking around on the bus, six guys and two girls. One of the guys says, in Chinese, Who farted? He looks to the girls and suggests it was them, I guess that's a courting ritual now, or something?
When they deny it, the guy subtly nods in my direction and says 'was it him?' All the while assuming he will get a laugh out of his buddies over my ignorance.
I took my headphones off and stated in his own language, "I only fact when I eat hamburgers, and I didn't eat hamburgers today. If I smell bad, I'm sorry, but I didn't have time to take a shower today because I was too busy banging your mom."
Amazing how your mom jokes are terrible in English but the reaction you get when you use it in a foreign language.. His face turned bright red, all his friends were roaring and the girls are probably not sleeping with him tonight.
If you've ever thought about learning a second language, DO IT.
If you've never thought about learning a second language, DO IT.
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