Isam Bayazidi’s Blog

Either my english and arabic sucks, or those Asians that work here do not talk any of those when they talk to me. I really try to understand what they are saying, with really high lexical and logical analysis for what they say to understand what exactly they are talking about. And in most cases, I fail.

Really it is a mixture of at least 3 languages. Arabic, English, and their own language what ever that is. what makes me even more crazy, is that people around me, Saudi’s and Arabs are communicating easily with them. That made me really question my language skills. Now the disaster is that when I do not understand what they are saying, and they repeat it for 2 or 3 times, at the end I answer “Yes” without exactly knowing what I said “Yes” to. So far, no harm is done, and I hope that non will.

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