I was in 2nd grade. My first day in Ted Ankara College. I didn’t know English, at all. When our English teacher came in the class for the first time, I didn’t know what to do. And there was a girl in our class, she used to live in America and she spoke English pretty well. She was our translator when we needed to tell something to the teacher.
Months later, on the last day of school year, I still wouldn’t understand a word in English. That teacher came in the class. He was not Turkish by the way, so we had never thought that he could speak Turkish. Well, actually he couldn’t. “I can also speak Turkish.” he said. Of course, I didn’t understand that sentence and asked my friend sitting next to me. And when I learnt what he actually told us, I was very confused. Like, why would a teacher speak in English if he can also speak in Turkish? After that day, I never forgot that all the foreign teachers in that school knew Turkish. This was an unforgettable memory for me.