About a week ago I spent time with my conversation partner Muhammad. We met up outside of CIES and decided to just walk around campus and talk some. His English is really great and each time we hang out I get to teach him more. I feel like I teach him these weird little things that people don't really think about. Like the first time we hung out I taught him to respond when someone asks him "What's up?". Yesterday we were talking and he told me that he went to the mall on Black Friday, and he bought perfume. After he said this he looked at me with a puzzled look. He then said that while shopping he told someone that and they started laughing at him. They tried to explain the difference between cologne and perfume and he was floored that this was the first time he had heard of this difference because his whole life he has called cologne, perfume. He thought it was funny but also embarrassing that he had been making the mistake since his English learning began.
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