Francais?

As I'm walking down the street, people usually yell out whatever words they know in English, meaning that we get a lot of profanities and alot of 'hello' 'how are you' 'I am fine'. I usually just ignore it and let people assume that I don't speak English. After that I usually get asked if I speak French and I say no, leaving people very confused and trying to figure out what language I do speak if it's neither of those. It's kind of fun.

Yesterday we were visiting one of our friends and she changed the TV channel from an Arabic channel to this French news channel. She doesn't speak English so she just assumed that the white guy was speaking English. Let me just say that even though it was in French I totally understood what was going on, even more than I understood the Arabic station. Arabic is hard and, apparently, French isn't so hard. I guess having the same alphabet really makes the difference. Oh well, it's a little too late to be changing things around. It is kind of sad though, that after 1 year of studying Arabic and absolutely never studying French I actually understood the French news so much more than I understood the Arabic.

Guess I do speak a little French, although my answer to the question 'do you speak French' will still always be no.