Saturday, July 11, 2009

It's Tough Not Speaking the Same Language as Your In Laws



The first time I met my future MIL, she poured coffee in my cereal.

Such misunderstandings are not uncommon when you don't speak the same language. My post, reflecting on speaking Franglish with my French in-laws, is up on the Silicon Valley Moms Blog:
When You Don't Speak the Same Language as Your In-Laws

Photo courtesy of Al Lanni via Flickr Creative Commons.

1 comments:

Carolyn Jung said...

Hah. My father-in-law only speaks Japanese, which I can't understand a word of (well, except for some food terms). But we nod, and point, and smile a lot. Seems to work. ;)