What is your gift?

[Forest Cat]

Können Sie Deutsch sprechen?

Ein bisschen.

 

[Jonn]

There was a time in my youth when it was obvious that I was operating on a higher intellect than others. Always labeled as "the smart kid" in class, it became rather isolating. My response to that, in order to fit in with the cool kids in school was to get into athletics,

That was a smart move.
D'oh!

 

[Jonn]

My gifts:

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Being dishonest, sarcastic, malicious, uncaring, having no sense of humour, arrogant...

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Hang on.
It may be the opposite.
I'll get back to y'all on that.

 

[Jonn]

So I talk English goodly.

I fixed it for you.

I come from a family that was learning English from scratch without classes, when they moved to Australia.
This, and not having a natural talent in languages, has plague me all my life.
Language is NOT one of my gifts.
Being honest is.

 

[Misty Avich]

Stressing is something I'm advanced in.

 

[Jonn]

Stressing is something I'm advanced in.

You are a master mistress.

 

[Misty Avich]

You are a master mistress.

Miss-stress, get it?

 

[Roisin]

It isn't always a gift, I see the whole person, the systems in their lives and see the best parts of them.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I once made the mistake of speaking German to a woman who was Danish. Having worked with her for years, I just assumed she was American given her accent was virtually undetectable. Oops.

My German teacher in High School was Austrian. Unlike most of my classmates who hardly tried to pronounce German properly (horrible American accents), I tried to speak exactly what I heard.

As a result, when I spent time touring Germany and Switzerland, people kept asking me what part of Austria I was from. When I answered I was American, they often didn't believe me, especially when I said I only learned German in school with no German speakers in my family.