Bilingual People Share Their Greatest “I Didn’t Know You Spoke the Language” Stories

The Cow Says Thanks

One of my Israeli women friends told me that when she was pregnant riding a subway in New York, she asked (in English) to squeeze in on a bench seat next to two women. One of the women said to the other (in Hebrew) “Let the cow sit down.” After she sat down, my friend then said in Hebrew “The cow says ‘thanks’.” capazdelocura