I speak English real good

As has been afore mentioned, I sometimes enjoy the great privilege of translating for tourists during cooking classes. This week was no exception but I have the unfortunate habit of tripping up and stuttering when other bilingual speakers are in the room. Thursday was a group of students from the U who know a little Italian, but I still feel confident when speaking in front of them, two Australian tourists who don't know any Italian, Louisa who knows barely any English and then claudio who's language skills I'm still not certain of, but it is enough uncertainty to trip me up. I started off a wee bit nervous and stuttering but as I gained confidence and claudio didn't correct anything I gained more and more so that the class was flying not too far into it. It wasnt until after the class I realized the problem, I can translate into English very well because I understand what is going on in Italian and, not to brag or anything, but my English is pretty fluent. However, if I were asked to translate the other direction I would fail, miserably. This is now how I am going to measure my Italian proficiency, when I can translate English into Italian as well as I can translate Italian into English I will feel quite pleased with myself.