At school, I studied French and German, and each time I went to continental Europe and tried out my language skills on the natives they spoke back to me in English.
Thank you for this! My husband and I deal with similar things at our old farmhouse. Thankfully my dad was able to help him replace the pipe that runs from the spring house into the house that brings in the water. A pump helps support it. As for the language to describe it, all I can think to say is the pump sounded “different” when running because of the pipe having a crack in it than it does now the pipe is fixed. I could probably come up with a better word though.
At school, I studied French and German, and each time I went to continental Europe and tried out my language skills on the natives they spoke back to me in English.
That has been my experience as well—everybody seems more proficient in my language than I am at theirs, despite my many years of study
Thank you for this! My husband and I deal with similar things at our old farmhouse. Thankfully my dad was able to help him replace the pipe that runs from the spring house into the house that brings in the water. A pump helps support it. As for the language to describe it, all I can think to say is the pump sounded “different” when running because of the pipe having a crack in it than it does now the pipe is fixed. I could probably come up with a better word though.
The joys of living in an old farmhouse—the pipes and pumps have their own dialects, lol