Today a woman had a huge amount of trouble getting into her email on one of her public computer because her password included an á and a ¿. Of course when she is using her phone, its keyboard is set up for Spanish, so she was confused by this problem.
I also learned from my English Conversation Practice students that the word for "mustache" and the word for "whiskers" are the same in some Latin American countries. They wanted to know what a "mustache" was, and why it wasn't pronounced the same way as "headache," and "stomachache." I love this program, but it's making me start to hate the English language a little bit.
I would never want to explain the English language to anyone
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