the ultimate linguistic challenge!!

            This past June while visiting my friend Kaila in Germany, we played a fun linguistic experiment while cooking dinner. Kaila is half German and half Norwegian; Miles, her roommate, is half German and half Greek; and I am full American but a wanna-be Spaniard. So we decided to cook stuffed tomatoes while only speaking in each others’  non-intelligible languages, a.k.a. Norwegian, Greek, and Spanish. (Also, the recipe was in Greek so we couldn’t cheat! Only Miles held the secrets.) It involved lots of gestures and repetition of words in alarmingly high voices, but the tomatoes turned out to be a success! Here’s Miles with them:

If you and any friends speak other languages, I highly recommend this little challenge. I also recommend making Greek stuffed tomatoes, yummmm.