When English is not your first language

Oct 3, 2016 5:34 AM

testeralpha123

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If Japanese the word is Tori. Chicken fried rice (Tori-Cha-Han)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Was in Berlin, had to shit but for the word Toileten but remembered shieß so I asked "Where can I put my shit?". I successfully pooped.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That person actually followed him to the cashier?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In Cantonese chinese, the word for 'chicken' can also mean 'prostitute'

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yes.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

this reminds me... so many years ago.#we went to BigBear lake. Dad ordered a glass of milk..Frustration said: Cow juice! please, get it?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You know Jerry? Jerry is here.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That’s actually what you will do in in China and can’t find chicken

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have tears.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He was more clever on the front page a day or two ago.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

Why is this the very first text you're sending someone?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But how did he find the egg?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is exactly how you learn language when you want to live in a foreign place. You you use what you know to circumvent things you don't.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Haven't laughed this hard in a while thank you!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nice problem solving skills indeed.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I understand the struggle...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Apparently if you do that with watermelon and say "where father?" you get shot by the police?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 10

I am amused, this is the wrong post for that comment, but you amused me, so

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He's looking for the chook but he can only find the goog

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He was actually working for PETA and wanted the people to realise what they were doing

9 years ago | Likes 86 Dislikes 2

Alright who rebooted the Tay AI

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He then proceeded to put down 2000 dogs

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

In a delicious Sichuan sauce

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Its understandable

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

definitely not unreasonable

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I like how the battery is both 70% and 79% charged.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Screenshot within a screenshot.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and it's both 3pm and 10 am at the same time

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh, please. Maybe in one of the GIANT REFRIGERATORS?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There tends to be a lot of them in supermarkets.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If somebody walks into an American supermarket and can't find chicken quickly and easily, the problem isn't about language.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I went to France. Needed toothpaste. Asked for dentil puree.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

"dentifrice". In case someone around wonders and is too lazy to Google. And has a bad breath under the Eiffel Tower right now.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Haha thank you! I'll remember it for next time.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did it work?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Yes, after a brief moment of then looking very puzzled.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You didn't know how to say "toothpaste" but knew how to say "dentil purée"?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

he could say teeth and he could say mashed

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Haha I know 25% of the language at best. When in doubt try anything approximately close and people usually understand.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would have just impersonated a chicken with my insane chicken dance moves.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

yep the chicken Moves helped me once, the where is sliced bread Dance not ^^

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I heard about a Chinese guy who found a mouse in his hotel room but couldn't remember the English for mouse so he called the front desk and1

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Said "you know Tom and Jerry? Jerry is here!"

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Chinese guy without a smart phone.. I respectfully call bullshit!

9 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 2

Burrshit*

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You can never fully trust google translate. "Chicken" in Chinese can also mean: flying, movement, singing, wobbling and gay dinosaur.

9 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

We talking Cantonese or Mandarin?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I hate it when I'm trying to fry some chicken, I send people out for groceries and they come back with a gay dinosaur.

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

"Chicken" in Chinese really means prostitute.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

in which "Chinese" do you mean, considering the only unified form is the written language?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

If you think that's awesome you should try getting a chicken in a supermarket in China

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is a very intelligent person. Circumvent the problem.

9 years ago | Likes 920 Dislikes 2

The chinese are gonna eat us alive!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I know I'd just try to imitate a chicken.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

This is literally me speaking Spanish.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Once in France my Grand dad did a chicken impression for the employee

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Compressed Horse

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

Donkey?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pony?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Glue?

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Oh you!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As an English teacher, I tell my students they should use methods like this if they don't know a vocabulary word.

9 years ago | Likes 163 Dislikes 0

Yea except they try to do this for medical things on the phone and it's impossible to figure out what they mean

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've done it myself in German.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

I considered myself bilingual when I realized I could do this. I may not know all the words, but you know what I'm trying to say

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was this guy:

9 years ago | Likes 80 Dislikes 4

Seeing this guy on the show is weird because he looks just like a girl I dated

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Where mother?

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

God dammit Jian-Yang, go back to your room!

9 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

Don't worry you get 1 year free rent

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

this is you as an old man. I'm ugly and I'm dead. Alone

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Special occasion

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"I eat.. the ????????????????"

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Very resourceful.

9 years ago | Likes 185 Dislikes 0

Velly lesolsfur

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 11

Now that's just razy lacism.

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