Today, I'm not getting paid 400$ per month because I failed my Russian language proficiency test. Russian is my first language. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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Communication Breakdown
Today, I was unable to communicate with a customer who only spoke French. As a result, my boss called me a "monolingual idiot." I speak Spanish, German, and Japanese. FML
Make it make sense
Today, my boss is on the phone with a Russian customer, who keeps saying, "Speak Russian please!" My boss asks me to translate, as he hired me for my knowledge of Russian. He says something, I translate in Russian, then the customer says, "Speak English please!" FML
Bosses gonna boss
Today, I noticed I spend most of my day translating French, German, and other languages for my boss, as he talks to people overseas. As his assistant I make crap money. If I were promoted to a Translator I’d make a lot more. He won’t promote me. In fact he threatened to fire me if I asked again. FML
Today, my English teacher told me that I failed my grammar test. Her exact words were "You ain't gonna pass this class if you ain't gonna study." FML
Today, my crazy bitch of a boss fired me for inappropriate conduct. Apparently my "fake Nazi accent" is "offensive to our Jewish coworkers." I'm German. I have no way to change the way I speak, or to pay this month's bills. FML
Today, my co-worker and I were having a conversation in Russian. Our boss overheard us talking, shouted, "I know you're talking about me! I speak Spanish too!" and threatened to fire us. FML
Cough up
Today, I didn't get my driver's license, even though I didn't make any mistakes because my examiner said it was only my first time taking the exam, so it wouldn't matter if I failed. Now I have to pay another €240 for a second exam. FML
Offended
Today, a customer came in who only spoke Spanish. I speak Spanish rather well so I helped the customer. She ended up buying $2300 worth of stuff. I got written up because not speaking English apparently "has the potential be offensive to other customers if they are not able to understand you." FML
Today, I misspelled the word "failure" in front of all my co-workers. Now I'm not given any writing tasks. FML
Today, I began taking a French language class. After completing and submitting some homework, I got a response. A response that was completely in French. I can't understand shit. FML
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DocBastard 40
I guarantee that their are a lot of native English speakers would fail an English proficiency test to. You're test was probably just a bit two hard. Just except that you need too study harder and due better next time. Good luck.
nightbirdblue 27
Native speakers tend to have more improper grammar and usages of slang than those that learned a language in an educational environment. Learning a language naturally tends to leave more room for twisting the rules of that language's grammar. Those who learn a language in an educational setting end up learning rules of that language at the same time as they learn the language itself. Natural learning of a language tends to get the language before full understanding of the rules of that language is learned and understood.
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KenB99 15
same thing happened with my grandfather. he took a course on czech in colege because he didn't like the other class options or something and got a D. czech was his first language
PersianLove 4
Я тебя понимаю. После английский, русский тяжёлый
Jabberwockyy 13
I am not sure what this is for, but there are so many different jobs out there that you can get paid more for.
iammeorami 25
Were you Russian in the test?
k_diamonds 1
Hahah
ni0ve 9
Spanish was my first but now i screw up with it
immataco 9
you're awesome.
katties 27
How is this not a YDI? Russian is MY native language too. If you have ever actually looked up how many rules there are in the language you would know that being able to speak it is far from enough to pass a test. You're like "It's my native language! Why can't I pass a test on it?". Well, you'll NOT pass a test in it if you just expect to pass it without studying, just because it's your first language. I know plenty of people that are pretty darn bad at writing in their native language.
rety1 13
I'm assuming its a different dialect... My dad told me about a girl from haiti (French being her first language) failing a French course when he was in high school (late 70's) simply because it was a slightly different form of French. She didn't do a lot of her work, apparently thinking that she'd skate by and ended up failing miserably because of a different French dialect than she was used to. He said she was a bit of a bitch anyway, so she probably deserved it; there'd have to be more info before I'd say you deserve it however because I simply don't know. Your life sucks, I suppose.
katties 27
Nope. There is only one "official dialect", and I can't even call it a dialect.
PandaBurst 10
I'm wondering who would be paying you this $400/month salary. Is it a job? Or is this an allowance from your parents? Because if it is from your parents, you are RIDICULOUSLY spoiled.
Fpsnoob 1
US military pays people for passing a test on some of the foreign languages. Russian used to be part of that.