Our Biggest Enemy

Posted by Shiny

Living in the UK, one of the biggest enemies is language.  If you don’t solve this problem, it will become a barrier to your life, just like the sands inside your shoes which makes you inconvenient and uncomfortable to move.

Undeniably, linguistic problems are really inevitable.  Having problems is not scary, because you can learn something from that.  But the thing is, sometimes we won’t learn things until we become a “clown”.

Just before Christmas, my housemate August caught a cold, so he went to a pharmacy to buy some medicine since he has almost eaten up the pills I had given to him.  He asked the shop assistant to get some medicine for him.  The shop assistant showed him a bottle of liquid, but August didn’t trust that kind of medicine.  So he told the assistant to get some other sorts of medicine.  Unfortunately he didn’t know how to say, so he asked, “Have you got something like candies?” “Can candy cure your cough?” asked the assistant.  August said, “No, I mean something you put into your mouth.”  The assistant said angrily, “Your mouth! Not my mouth!”  “OK!”  Finally August learnt a new word which is “oral administration.”