Allo? That\u2019s how you answer the phone if you\u2019re in My Country, or if you\u2019re in the US and someone from My Country calls you! And on Monday, by 8:30am I had received two phone calls from there, one in Jula and one in French. I was getting ready to go to a meeting, but had to keep taking breaks to babble away in those other languages. It\u2019s good that my brain is used to jumping languages now!<\/p>\n
My first call from My Country, a few weeks ago, caught me off guard. The number wasn\u2019t saved on my phone, and a brief glance at the caller ID showed me that it was a local person calling, so I answered in English. When she spoke French, I switched, though I couldn\u2019t yet figure out who it was or what country they were in. After a bit I realized that it was a friend I know in My Country. After our short conversation I re-looked at the number on caller ID \u2013 the country code was very similar to the local area code, so I had missed that they were calling from My Country and not from just down the street. Oops! Talk about making it confusing! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
On the phone and through lots of texts aren\u2019t the only ways I\u2019ve used my language this month while I\u2019ve been in the US. I\u2019ve also talked French with a few friends from church. But it was most fun the day I went to the State Fair and found a guy selling things from West Africa. I saw from his merchandise what country he was from, so I started talking to him in Jula. It took him a second or two to realize that I was talking his language, then we carried on a nice conversation. But in his country, to be honest, they don\u2019t speak Jula, but it\u2019s basically the same language and we could totally understand each other. How fun!<\/p>\n
And yes, when I wrote this post it was 9:30am and I hadn\u2019t spoken anything except for English yet. But I have received a text in French and responded in French and Jula. Does that count?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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