Cameron TS #5

I met Hassad at the Starbucks on West Tennessee Street on February 13th. When texting back and forth, Hassad, seemed to be fairly new to English. However, when I met him, his speaking was impressive. When I mentioned this, he said that he watches a lot of American movies and tv shows to help with his English. We discussed movies that have recently come out and if he enjoyed them, since I work at AMC Tallahassee. He was attempting to take the IELTS soon, so he wanted help with this. When discussing idioms and slang, he mentioned that he was not too interested in learning English in this sort of manner. He preferred more formal English, because he wanted to be able to go to any country and speak English with any English speaker. I felt this, somewhat, defeated the purpose of studying here in the U.S., because we have so much culture and idioms within our language.