Pimsleur Greek, Level 1 Unit 9, is basically a long example of how to reject a clueless guy. It goes something like this:
"Miss would you like to have a drink with me?"
"That's ma'am, and no I don't want to."
"What time would you like to have a drink with me? At one?"
"No, I don't want to."
"At eight?"
"No, thank you."
"At...nine? At the hotel?"
"No, sir, I don't want to."
"Or at two, at the restaurant?"
"No. Not at the restaurant."
"Oh, I understand! You don't want to have a drink with me."
"Yes, you understand. I don't want to."
"Ok, but do you want to have lunch with me?"
"No."
"At the restaurant or at the hotel? At eight or at nine?"
"No, sir. Not at the restaurant, not at the hotel, not at one or two or eight or nine. You don't understand."
"What don't I understand?"
"Greek!!"
Hahahahaha. Literally, that was the lesson. There were some other things thrown in, but that was the gist of it. I was having a hard time remembering to answer in Greek because I was busy waiting for, "If you don't go away right now I'm calling the cops."
Best. Greek. Lesson. EVAR. Wish you could laugh with me about it. <3
Haha, that's an unusual lesson :)
ReplyDeleteHilarious. I didn't realize until about the middle of it that this is what was happening, but one I did, the sound of the kind, helpful language coach was even funnier to me, and now I can't stop thinking about that lesson. I moved on to unit 10 today but I'm still stuck on that guy. And I looked up how to say police. :-)
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