When you live together with a foreigner, which is the biggest barrier for you?

well actully the people live next to us are russias. the husband and wife can talk to me fine. but the grandma have no idea what we are talking about so we kinda use like hand signals. but i wanted to learn to say in russia out of respect, yeah didnt work to well.

I deal with this problem everyday in my university where majority of the professors are from other countries. The biggest problem is the accent. I had an embarrassing moment with my human resources professor last summer who was from Vietnam. The man was nicely asking me "did you sign up for the team". I understood, "did you suck up for the tea?" I felt so confused as to why he asked me such a question. I did not know what to answer, but later I went little close to him to hear exactly what he was saying. Then I felt embarrassed when I got the clue to the real question. Another time I had an Austrian professor. I said hi to him on the first day of the class near the classroom door. He asked me, "Are you in my marketing class also?" Yes, I was taking two classes with him. But I heard, "are you making me wholesome?" It keeps happening every quarter. I will not blame them for anything. Many people have accent and it is very normal. But when it comes to directly living with a foreigner it is usually the cultural differences that can create a clash. While one will want to do it in his cultural way, another will say,"in my country we do it in the way".