My 10th graders have been driving me crazy recently with "Hristo Stoichkov" speech.  They really like the phrase "sometimes loon, sometimes win."  I would venture to guess that they've been talking like him for about four weeks.

It makes my English-teacher-skin crawl. Then I watched Hristo Stoichkov on youtube. It's even worse. And even funnier than my students. You too should watch it.  This way you'll know what they've been joking around about.
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I have to say, Hristo is giving it his all and never pauses or stumbles. That's what makes the whole thing so funny and slightly unbelievable. It's the utter confidence that is striking.<!--more--> He's utterly confident even when what he's saying makes very little sense and is riddled with mistakes.

The thing is I am pretty sure I must sound just as ridiculous speaking Bulgarian and I am not even sure that my Bulgarian is as coherent as Hristo's is.  Maybe it's time for me to learn a thing or two from him. He holds his head up high. He talks with confidence and never lets on that he's not sure about what he's saying.

Okay, maybe this just makes him crazy. I mean his level of confidence is pretty high given what he's saying.  He's clearly not a modest man.  But maybe I can be modest and have enough confidence to actually speak Bulgarian. Hum, maybe there's a thing or two that I could learn from Hristo and maybe there's a thing or two I could teach him about English.