Speaking two languages....

Irishguy16

Hey guys,
I recently started a new job. I work with a girl from South Africa. She is a great person, very good at her job, very advanced, one of the bosses favorite, and very helpful if I ever need any advice or guidance.

But she keeps making reference to the fact that she speaks two languages, English and Afrikaans. Every single day its "Oh, but I speak two langagues" and "Oh,it's great being bi lingual". We meet a lot of different people in the job, and she tells absolutely everyone that she speaks two languages, as if she deserves a reward or something. Even on break time i'm almost certain that she rings her mother on purpose, in front of us all, and starts speaking Afrikaans.

I'm not sure if she is aware that everyone in my job, except maybe one or two, speak a different language aswell, but we very rarely point it out. A few days ago we went out and she kept saying it again, not realising that all five of us,including myself, can all speak a different language, Irish, Hindi, Lithuanian, Chinese......

The other day we were all telling each other jokes and when it came to her she was like, I have to translate from Afrikaans, so this may take a few minutes, even though her english is absolutely 100% perfect

I'm not sure what to do or say next time because I am slowly getting frustrated. Nobody ever uses a different language on the job. All we need is English in the job and nothing else is important.

Anyone got any similiar stories?

teacherhead

She's a cnut.

teacherhead

She's a cnut.

Hande hoche!

Does she look like Charlize Theron?

B_Rabbit

She's a peanut.

Arthur Beesley

Is she hot?

ArtyC

Turn it into a drinking game.......
A swig for "two languages" said and a shot for every time she speaks it loudly for ye to hear......

Liver failure won't take long and you won't. Have to tolerate her **** anymore

Alf. A. Male

I had a girlfriend who spoke 7 languages. Clearly I win. You should tell your language-challenged colleague about my success and it will shut her up.

4zn76tysfajdxp

As far as I'm concerned, Afrikaans isn't even a proper language. It's more like special-needs Dutch.

Arthur Beesley

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I had a girlfriend who spoke 7 languages. Clearly I win. You should tell your language-challenged colleague about my success and it will shut her up.

Had....

mfceiling

Tell her that Afrikaan's isn't really another language, and that it's only spoken by about 8 people.

Or find out from google translate what the Afrikkan is for "shut the fúck up"...

Arthur Beesley

mfceiling wrote: »

Tell her that Afrikaan's isn't really another language, and that it's only spoken by about 8 people.

Or find out from google translate what the Afrikkan is for "shut the fúck up"...

Yeah, and say it in Irish.

Sauve

Denver Wrong Bologna wrote: »

As far as I'm concerned, Afrikaans isn't even a proper language. It's more like special-needs Dutch.

Bit like Irish?

4zn76tysfajdxp

Sauve wrote: »

Bit like Irish?

Exactly but I'm sure Afrikaans is way easier. Nelson Mandela learned it in prison for god's sake.

Too Tough To Die

Tell her to votsek.

yr one

Does any two people speak the same language in work? If so have a conversation while she's around in that language, maybe she will feel left out and cop on to how stupid she's being.

What is it with people who insist on throwing in different languages when having a conversation, half the time it's a load of sh!te coming out if their mouth. I speak English and a tiny amount of Italian and Irish, I'm considering brining my cousin into the office I work in, she's fluent in English, Irish, German, Spanish and Japanese, she says she knows some Esperanto also and she's 19.. She just has the gift of the gab only multilingual gab.. Wonder how mr SI AND OUI to every bloody question would feel then

Sauve

Denver Wrong Bologna wrote: »

Exactly but I'm sure Afrikaans is way easier. Nelson Mandela learned it in prison for god's sake.

He was smrt though. I'd be screwed, I can't even do the Afrikaaner accent like....

4zn76tysfajdxp

yr one wrote: »

Does any two people speak the same language in work?

English?

Jacovs

Tell her to fokof.
In work they thought I only speak english, till they asked me and I told them Afrikaans is in fact my first language, not english.

They are always disappointed when I say I cant speak the clicky language.

yr one

Denver Wrong Bologna wrote: »

English?

Sorry I mean a language she cannot understand

diegroblers

mfceiling wrote: »

Tell her that Afrikaan's isn't really another language, and that it's only spoken by about 8 people.

Or find out from google translate what the Afrikkan is for "shut the fúck up"...

*Afrikaans
"shut the fúck up": Hou jou fokken bek.

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Tell her to votsek.

*voetsek

Denver Wrong Bologna wrote: »

Exactly but I'm sure Afrikaans is way easier. Nelson Mandela learned it in prison for god's sake.

He should have; he was there for 27 years.

Tell her: "Jy's 'n onooslike bliksemse moerskont."

Cork Lass

I have four languages
1. English - my 1st language
2. Phone language - the language I use at work
3. Bad language - generally used after phone language
4. Eye language - the look I save for when there are no words. This would be used for the likes of the bilingual girl in the OP's office :pac:

Legs.Eleven

I speak two languages.





Did I tell you I speak two languages?




I do, I speak two languages.



Languages. 2 of them. I speak them both.



...of them. The languages I mean. I speak them. To people. Daily.






Speaky speaky. 2. Languages. Me. Not you. Me.

c_man

Can she say "blik"?

Donkey Oaty

Comedian/performance artist Simon Munnery claims to speak fifteen languages.

Even more impressively, he claims to have invented fourteen languages.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I speak two languages.





Did I tell you I speak two languages?




I do, I speak two languages.



Languages. 2 of them. I speak them both.



...of them. The languages I mean. I speak them. To people. Daily.






Speaky speaky. 2. Languages. Me. Not you. Me.

Just two? :rolleyes:

Legs.Eleven

Denver Wrong Bologna wrote: »

Just two? :rolleyes:

Bite the big one. :cool:

Frosty McSnowballs

Pffft, who needs more than one language!

Just be awesome at hand signals, sorted.

Drakares

I speak two languages. La-di-da!

However, where I live most people, especially in the younger generation speak a minimum of two languages so I don't get to show off here

Wabbit Ears

Does she also say the words "South Africa" in that extraordinarily annoying accent at every single given opportunity?

Its like, yea, I get you're from SA and speak one of the native languages for the fifty fcuking thousandth time today

osarusan

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Does she also say the words "South Africa" in that extraordinarily annoying accent at every single given opportunity?

Seth Efriceh?

I love how that sounds.