Ryan CP1

My conversation partner is Jemal Temori. He is from Kabul, Afghanistan and is here to better his English so that he can pass the TOEFL and GRE so he can go to U of Missouri to continue studying Communication. He is here as a Fullbright student. I showed up to the Tea time late, and he was already talking with this fellow named John, so I just joined in. After introductions, our conversation turned to why he was learning English and about how the many different types of English that are spoken in his country have confused some of his pronunciation of some words. We eventually got talking about our names and out heritage. He told us that his last name, Temori, means that he is a descendant of the historic Tamerlane. His English is quite good because he studied it in Afghanistan as a journalist. He said that it was easy to pick up because of all the foreign English speakers there with the war effort. One word that we had to define for him was turbulent. I look forward to hearing more about Afghanistan and what life is like there.