Saturday, March 22, 2008

Getting the short end of the stick

Sometimes beginner-level students confuse the most basic tenses:

Me: Oh, you got a new haircut!
K: Yes, yes! I will look like a gentleman!
Me: You 'will' look like a gentleman? So... now, you don't look like a gentleman?
K (enthusiastically): Oh, thank you!!

I just cracked up.

He was all 'nani? nani?!' ('what? what?!') The manager had to explain to him...

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