10 Reasons Why You Should Not Let Me Browse The Language Section In Any Given Bookstore
1) I will buy something.
2) On a day like yesterday I will also complain about stupid women who are surprised when told by a not-so-stupid bookseller that Langenscheidt indeed has several packages containing CDs for Portuguese. It’s Langenscheidt! That’s like the #1-publishing house for languages. Get with the program, lady!
And yes, there IS a difference between Audio-CDs and CD-ROMs. A significant one.
3) I will consider learning Czechian.
4) I will tell you at least 20 times how fascinating languages are.
5) I will consider learning Arabic.
6) I will come to you at least 3 times with some language guide and show you how strange that language looks like. And I won’t mind that you were just deeply absorbed in some other book. Because my book is more important than yours.
7) I will consider learning Icelandic.
8) I will throw disparaging looks at the stupid woman who is still browsing the portuguese language books instead of just calling her daughter to get the ISBN-Number of that CD she’s got. (It’s still not clear if we’re talking about an Audio-CD or a CD-ROM here.)
9) I will try to find out if there’s a job where I can learn languages the whole time and still get paid.
10) I will end up buying a language guide for Romanian.