Put twenty already-beat-after-a-long-day-at-work students who eternally bear the linguistic marks of 17 different mother tongues into a sterile, stuffy room where they're supposed to be becoming enlightened with the wonders of German but haven't quite reached that point yet so you might just mistake it for a French class, and this is what you get:
Instructor: "Repeat after me: du sprichst"Student(s): "du sperikst"
Instructor: "non, du shhprriikkkssshhhtt"Student(s): "du shpriKKKst"
Instructor: "no, in your throat, like this: du shprihhhhst"(scene repeats itself about ten more times, until finally ...)
Student: Mais, madame, if we keep making sounds like these, the janitors are going to be here all night just to clean all the spittle off the tables!
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This was the first thing I read this morning (even before I read the Times). I'm so happy because my day is off to a good start with a good laugh.
Thanks for that.
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