Bassim
VIP Member
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2008
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Bosnian
- Home Country
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Current Location
- Sweden
Have I made any mistakes? Is it natural to say "ashamed of his laziness to learn a foreign language"?
Mark felt ashamed of his laziness to learn a foreign language. He had been to Spain dozens of times but didn't bother to learn any basic phrases to easier communicate with the natives. He and his wife went to the same town year after year, and people knew them well and probably expected from them after so many years to speak some Spanish, but Mark was hardly able to produce an understandable sentence. His hosts were too polite to say anything, but he felt they must have been thinking of them as another arrogant British couple, who only came there to enjoy the sun and the beaches and never bothered to learn anything about the country, culture and people. How he wished to prove them wrong, but he lacked the patience for sitting and reading a language book, and he was bad at learning a language by just listening to it, especially when he had one too many. Instead, he tried to make amends by bringing with him a lot of presents to the locals, and also by treating them to drinks.
Mark felt ashamed of his laziness to learn a foreign language. He had been to Spain dozens of times but didn't bother to learn any basic phrases to easier communicate with the natives. He and his wife went to the same town year after year, and people knew them well and probably expected from them after so many years to speak some Spanish, but Mark was hardly able to produce an understandable sentence. His hosts were too polite to say anything, but he felt they must have been thinking of them as another arrogant British couple, who only came there to enjoy the sun and the beaches and never bothered to learn anything about the country, culture and people. How he wished to prove them wrong, but he lacked the patience for sitting and reading a language book, and he was bad at learning a language by just listening to it, especially when he had one too many. Instead, he tried to make amends by bringing with him a lot of presents to the locals, and also by treating them to drinks.
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