The utterly confused Brian could only tell Zhang Lin, "Can you communicate with me in English?"
I was speaking English, damn it, he didn't understand a word, such an embarrassment. Zhang Lin stood awkwardly in front of the students while the students around him stared at him in unison, wondering why the foreigners couldn't understand Teacher Zhang's English.
"He's speaking Swedish," Zhang Lin explained to the students before finding an excuse to make a crestfallen retreat with them.
Zhang Lin himself couldn't figure it out. He had passed the College English Test-6, meticulously studied according to textbooks, so why was it that when he faced a real foreigner, his English didn't cut it? Before, he never realized this because he had always communicated with Robert in Chinese.
