Today I had lunch at McDonalds…that’s not the point of this post.  During lunch, there were these two guys at a table next to me.  They were chatting and laughing.  BUT…when one guy spoke, he spoke in English.  When the other guy spoke, he spoke in Spanish.  And so on and so forth, they were having a full on conversation with one person speaking English and the other speaking Spanish!

At first I was thinking, wow that’s so weird and kind of cool.  But when I thought about it, I guess I can have that type of conversation with my parents too and probably have many times.  I’ll speak English and they’ll speak Chinese.

And so it made me wonder, if there are a lot of people who can understand certain languages pretty well but can’t speak it – but oddly (I guess it’s not so odd when it comes down to it) enough, they can converse like normal.  It was pretty weird but also kinda neat at the same time.