Few days back, I was studying and working at the resident's lounge when I heard a father teaching his daughter English. The father-daughter pair conversed in Arabic. As the father pored over his daughter's homework, the daughter (whom I presumed to be around seven or eight years of age) jumped up and down the couch, prancing around the coffee table.
Then the father told her, "Sit down please. Now, where is the fireman?"
It seemed to be a question directly from the book.
But the daughter continued speaking in Arabic, and I think she did not reply seriously and did not respond to her father's questions immediately. I guess when learning a second language, it always takes time to think and translate for processing and understanding.
Her father got impatient and muttered in English, "Move your brains! Girl! Move your brains!"
And I had a hearty laugh that night as I thought about her father's funny response.
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