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My name is Rizka and I am from Indonesia. I speak Indonesian and English. Few years a go, i went to Canada with my friends for an International short course. His name is Anshori. Anshori is a popular Arabic name but it is commonly used in Indonesia. It means the companion. One day, Within the classroom introductory session, he introduced his name in front of our classmates and the teacher as well. But many people get difficulties to pronounce his names. They tried it many times but it never perfectly be pronounced. Finally, everybody calls him I'm Sorry instead of Anshori up to now.

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A Surprising Language Twist: Solo Taiwan Travel Experience

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A Surprising Language Twist: Solo Taiwan Travel Experience

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Hello! I'm Wilfred Gabriel Gapas from Manila, the Philippines. I can speak English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Korean, Japanese, and a little of Spanish.

I have lots of interesting experiences with language, but the most interesting for me was with my first solo leisure travel to Taiwan in 2018. I have been to this country before, but I was with friends who could speak Hokkien. So while I enjoyed my peaceful travel there, I had to rely on Google Translate and English that they could understand. It was a struggle that I swore I would learn Hokkien before my next visit.

One night, I dropped by the famous Raohe Street Night Market. I immediately noticed most signs were either in Chinese or English. However, I was surprised that one stall had a multilingual menu written in Chinese, Japanese, English, and Korean. Curious as to whether the owner spoke these languages, I tried ordering in Korean. Guess what? He replied to me in Korean. I was surprised and amazed at his linguistic repertoire. The stall owner told me later during a brief chat that he learned these languages as he grew up. After all, his mother's side of the family was Korean and he studied marketing in the United States. He thought of using the languages he knew to make his stall distinct from the rest in some way.

Here's a collage of Raohe Street and one of the meals I ordered: okonomiyaki! (I can't find my photo of his menu, sadly.)

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Once my very good Ukrainian friend went to Poland for the first time for a training course. She asked how to get to a certain place and got the answer: " Prosto". In Polish it means "straight forward", but in Ukrainian - "easily." She laughed in her mind and thought: "For you it's easy, not for me."
While the same trip she asked how to get to the railway station. A Polish started to explain how to get to the Dworzec. "But firstly I want to find my train and then go sightseeing." In Russian "dvorets" means "palace."

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A traveller got lost in a small village in a foreign country. He saw two local young men and decided to ask them the way.
- Do you speak English?
- No.
- Parlez-vous français ?
- No.
- Sprachen Die Deutsch?
- No.
- Habla español?
- No.
And so on... So the traveller went away. Then one local sais to another:
- What a polyglot! And how did it help him?

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Bonjour, je m'appelle Valérie, je suis française et enseigne l'allemand en classe bilingue en Alsace depuis plus de 20 ans. Un jour, il y a eu un colloque à Guebwiller avec des enseignants de toute la France qui enseignaient une langue régionale. Assise par hasard à côté d'un groupe d'enseignants, je me suis surprise à les comprendre. Au bout d'un moment, je leur ai demandé d'où ils venaient et quelle était la langue qu'ils parlaient. Ils m'ont répondu que c'était du provençal. Je précise que je suis ardéchoise (un petit département entre Lyon et Avignon). Le soir même, j'ai appelé ma mère en lui racontant l'anecdote, elle a éclaté de rire et m'a dit que ce que toute la famille nomme le patois (ma mère parlait à sa mère en patois et d'autres membres de la famille le parlaient) était du provençal! C'est ainsi que j'ai découvert entre 25 et 30 ans que je comprenais une nouvelle langue le provençal!!!!

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Hello everyone, my name is Brígida. I'm from Brazil. I'm very happy to be here again, I participated in the last Locall, in january.
My first language is portughese, of course, than italian and english.
In Italy I said in high voice to my friend in portughese 'fica aí' ('stay there') to take me a picture,  at that moment everybody looked at me and I didn't understand why were they looking at me. Than a brasilian  friend of mine explained to me that 'fica' was not a good word to say in Italy... I'm not explaining you what it means... but I've never pronouced it in Italy again. ;)

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Head moves haven't been that "difficult"!

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Head moves haven't been that "difficult"!

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Hello everyone, my name is Irem. I'm from Istanbul, Turkey. I speak Turkish as a native, English and Bulgarian as 2nd languages. The story I'd like to share is about my Erasmus student mobility, which was in Bulgaria. I used to nod my head for saying "yes" and shake it for saying "no" in Turkey. Once I began living in Bulgaria, I noticed people nodding and shaking their heads for different meanings. It made me confused at first. Then I learned that head nodding and shaking in Bulgaria were vice versa in Turkey o_0 Language and culture are two things interconnected with bonds that we cannot separate at all. Our teaching practices should focus on this ideology or similar ones when it comes to multilingual instruction.

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Hello,

I’m Priscilla, I am French and I live in France. I can speak English and still have some memories of German. I can understand Italian too, just because I love this country :-)

I like peaking English with my oldest daughter. Two weeks ago I shared with her a funny tweet from a boy who believed that the English for « pomme de terre » was « world apple » . My daughter, very seriously, told me that obviously it was a mistake. He should have answered « Earth apple ». I told her she was a potato… and it took some time to explain the joke!

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Il y a des allergies et des allergies... 

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Il y a des allergies et des allergies... 

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Je suis portugaise mais pendant mes cours à la fac je dois utiliser l'allemand... Alors, en plein Printemps et pendant un cours magistral (Vorlesung), pendant que je luttais contre une "allegie au polen" (Pollenallergie, en allemand),  les yeux tous rouges, le nez et la voix tous irrités, j'ai mal prononcé le mot "Pollenallergie" tout en demandant des excuses aux étudiants à cause de ma "Polenallergie" (quelque chose comme "allergie à la Pologne").... Vraiment pas sympa à dire :/
Alors... tous les étudiants se sont mis à rire en même temps, les têtes baisses, les mains devant la bouche LOL... Un signe que j'avais, une fois de plus, dit quelque chose bien "à côté"... et oui, ça m'arrive souvent :) Heureusement, c'est un fait connu par tous mes étudiants!!!!

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Hello my name is Gökçe, I come from Turkey, now I live in İzmir but in fact my family lives in Antalya, Turkey. In German, Goodbye means 'Auf Wiedersehen'. (It is called Aufviedersiin). It is similiar to (Afadersin) pronunciation in Turkey which means 'I'm sorry.' When I was at my German classes at highschool, we were learning Guten Tag, Guten Morgen etc and pronunciation of 'Aufwiedersehen' seemed so funny for me because it was similiar to a Turkish saying! :) Whenever I try to pronounce it, it sounds like 'Afedersin' :) In fact it is Auf Wiedersehen' :)

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Hearing my name pronounced with a German accent

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Hearing my name pronounced with a German accent

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I am Rogelio Panuelos Jr. from the Philippines. I participated in the 2nd LoCALL OTW held last January, and it was my first time to talk  (albeit virtually) to Europeans. During the small group meetings, I had the chance to work with a German professor who pronounced my name with a thick German accent. I instantly felt "kilig" (a Filipino word which means "exhilarated by an exciting experience") upon hearing how she distinctly pronounced the /r/ and /g/ in my name.

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My name is Maria, I come from Ukraine and now I live in France. My native languages are Ukrainian and Russian.  One of my close friends here in France wanted to learn some Russian, so I thought of basic phrases like "Hello, how are you?", which in Russian would sound like "PRIVET, KAK DELA?"... BUT... my friend thought he heard "PRIVET, GODZILLA?"... most of you know the film about Godzilla, so I let you imagine the possible reactions to such a phrase :-)

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Je m'appelle Maria, je viens de l'Ukraine et maintenant j'habite en France.
Mes langues d'origine sont l'ukrainien et le russe. Un de mes amis proches ici en France souhaitait apprendre un peu de russe, alors j'ai pensé à des phrases basiques comme "Bonjour, comment ça va?, ce qui en russe se prononce comme
"PRIVET, KAK DELA?"... mais... mon ami a cru avoir entendu "PRIVET, GODZILLA?"... la plupart d'entre vous connaissez le film sur Godzilla, je vous laisse donc imaginez les réactions possible à ce genre de phrase :-)