Temel and Dursun were strolling down the street, when Trudy approached them to ask directions, She asked her question in English.

T&D had no clue, Trudy tried the same question in French.

No success again. Trudy was already asking the same question, this time in German,

When Italian, Dutch and Spanish also failed - Trudy was furious. She mumbled something indecent, in disgust and quickly departed to find someone who would understand her.

When she left, T turned to D and said "All this bulshit about the advantages of learning new and different languages ! Take this poor lady for example, she can obviously speak 10 languages, yet can she express herself ?...NO !"

 Great Alpha, never thought I would have a role in a Temel and Dursun story!

Lovely, this joke seems to be videspread!

Anyway, it reminds me a delicious sketch:

Do You Speak English?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fijBUeqiW0g

I think she was talking about me.

Update: the man was in class this afternoon and made some nasty racist remarks about African and Surinam people. I told him to stop but he continued. Then I really got angry and indeed said ´keep your mouth shut´. Next week his boss, he and I are having a ´nice´ conversation about his behaviour.....

 I take it he thinks Suriname is in Africa?    (My turn to correct spelling haha!)

 Is it spelt with an ´e´??

 Yes!  Used to be Surinam..............

Surinam is the English version and Suriname is the Dutch version............. just checked

 So....Trudy used the English spelling and you used the Dutch one?  

Update: the man was in class this afternoon and made some nasty racist remarks about African and Surinam people. I told him to stop but he continued. Then I really got angry and indeed said ´keep your mouth shut´. Next week his boss, he and I are having a ´nice´ conversation about his behaviour.....