Activities For Chinese New Year
Why does my French classmate refuse to speak English during class?
I am a 25-year-old Chinese guy who is taking an Italian course in a language school during spare time.
I am a full-time student at university.
Today i have a new classmate. He is in his 40s and he is from France. One of our class activities is that each course participants take turns to translate an Italian paragraph to English one . When it is the French guy’s turn, he tells the teacher in Italian , that he doesn’t speak English. The Italian teacher doesn’t force him to do it and let another student do it instead.
After class, I greeted him in Italian and ask for his name. At home, I google his name on Internet and find that he is acutually a university professor ( but not in my university) who teaches French . According to the official university website, he also teaches Economics with English as the medium of instruction. I was startled.
Question 1) The same as the title question. Any possible reasons?
Question 2) Do you think he REALLY CANNOT speak English?
A lot of reasons he could say that. Many of us who use English as a second or even third language are self conscious about our accents. This can also make us difficult to understand for those of us who do are not accustomed to hearing accented English or are unfamiliar with our particular type of accent.
He could also have problems translating from Italian to English since English is also a foreign language for him as well. I have the same problem with German. If I am asked to answer in a language other than German, I will answer in Norwegian – my Mother tongue – and because I rarely use German will have to think about the concept in Norwegian before taking it into English.
He also simply may not want to answer in English. That is also always a possibility.
Q2: I believe he does speak English, but that doesn’t mean he speaks it well. I use it every day, but my relatives who still live in Norway do not. While they do speak English, they find it difficult and unwieldy and are incapable of expressing complex thoughts or using English other than the most basic of words. They simply do not use it and prefer not to use it – but they do speak it.
Honestly, in the privacy of my own home and when having a personal conversation in public, I don’t use English either. It is only because I use it all other times because most Americans do NOT speak more than one language and because I attended Uni here as well as back home that I am as good with it as I am. I still get things wrong from time to time, though. That is terribly embarrassing when it happens.
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