Tuesday, February 9th, I spent the day talking in 2 languages. Arabic, and English. I couldn’t speak in one language for more than a sentence, which for most part left everyone confused(unless of course you were one of the few people who understood me). At times, I even confused myself. I was worried that during the day I would be called on in class and have to speak in a different language in front of the whole class. Making a bigger fool of myself than I already have in the past. Mr. Loo made that happen.

While talking in a different language, I noticed a different range of reactions in people. There were those who stared before looking away, the one or two surprising answers back, and the one’s who completely denied the situation. “No! I don’t know what you said, but No!” Lizzy Gunder (9th grade). Even while I was talking to them normally, people often thought that I was “cussing” them out. “You could be completely swearing at me right now, and I wouldn’t even know it” Mikayla Ryan (10th grade), then she started laughing, trying to blow it off. After talking in Arabic, I had to often translate it into English so that people didn’t get offended. My “outer-worldly” speaking caused many giggles here and there, and the occasional “What?”, and “Why?” where I had to explain my experiment to them, and why I was doing it.

After conducting the experiment, I came to notice the lack of trust we all have in each other. When one speaks in a language we don’t understand we instantly think that they are talking about us, when in reality they’re not. There was one thing that someone brought to my attention though, that made me smile. “Look at the bright side, if you mess in Arabic, no one would even know” Julia Hellquist (9th grade). When you’re talking in English, and you mess up, everyone knows you did. I could say random words in any other language, and no one would know unless they understood me. I don’t even have to make sense to sound like I do, which in the long run can help.