This is a story when I was in Ho Chi Minh city. At that time I was fifteen years old. In a beautiful day, while I went around the city, two tourists ran into me and ask for help, for they were lost. Unfortunately, I did not know much about the streets in the city, but they just wanted to go back to their hotel. In my mind at that time, I just wanted to say that ” I don’t understand English”, but looking for the hotel is quite easy. I borrowed their phone to use the map and asked them to spell the hotel’s name, so the problem started here. At that time, I even confused the pronunciation of alphabet between Vietnamese and English, when I heard they pronounce “e”, I pressed “i”. Consequently, The map showed the result, and the distance is 3 kilometers. I did not know why I did not do double check with them, so we started the journey. In the middle of journey, I remembered the pronounce and asked them again, and I was really embarrassed. Also I told them the fact, but they were not upset. Eventually, I searched the location again, luckily, the location was also near our place which just took 4 or 5 minutes. Finally, we arrived the right place, and I felt really happy like I see the sunlight shine my life. I said goodbye to them, and they said thank you however I did not dare to receive them. After that, I went back to my apartment, and during the way back I gradually realized where I got those braveness to be their tour-guide.
That is a great story Liem! The tourists were probably so happy to just have someone help them that they didn’t care so much that you initially gave them the wrong directions. That is the same problem many of my Balinese students used to have the difference between the “i” and “e” in their language is the same as Vietnamese.
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If you are my guide and tell me the wrong address, I will write a bad review about you! hahahahahaha! Also, I still have the same problem about to confuse the sounds of the vowels. great story!
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