My roommate, Nina, sometimes asks me for help with her English. She was texting today, and she asked me if she could say "If you need any help, don't bother asking me." I explained that she probably should say "If you need any help, just ask." She does this frequently: say the opposite of what she means, which sometimes makes determining her actual meaning hard.
I kind of wonder how she functions as her job. She works at an English newspaper, so how does she get on? I would be impossibly in trouble if I worked at a non-English newspaper.
She told me last night she wanted to learn Chinese, which is admirable, but since she's here, I personally think an English class might be a good idea. It's clear she has the vocab, but she needs to practice speaking, and well, there are classes (or coffee table nights) that cater exactly to that.
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