Moshkiae
Hi,
 
I had to take the SAT when I did not know English, and had been in the country only 2 years, and my speaking ability and school work was a joke and very difficult. Only had 2 A's ... in French, because in Brazil I had already taken it for 2 years, and in Geometry/Algebra, where I could deal with numbers and not have to deal with language!
 
The rest was tough!
 I was not able to get into the University because of it. So I finally made it to UCSB in the fall of 1978, and it took me 8 years to be able to improve my English and grades in school because of it. Any course that was writing oriented was a problem. Not to mention the terminology, as things like Physics, Chemistry and Biology were completely out of scope for me!

You've come a long way, Moshkiae. Now you can confidently spout CH nonsense with the best of the native English-speakers. Good that all that education hasn't gone to waste!
 
When I was still in my teens my folks took in an exchange student from Brazil. He ended up staying here, graduating from the UW, marrying a local girl and going to work for Boeing.
 
He learned English by watching television, especially Westerns, and thus developed a vocabulary that couldn't have been learned from textbooks.
 
Today, more than 4 decades later, he's a thoroughly-American grandpa and a naturalized U.S. citizen. His English still sucks but his John Wayne imitation is the hit of the party.

Some of those answers seemed like the kind of answers I would have given on a test where I had no clue

Starise
Reminds me of one of my wife's 1st graders who was supposed to write, "The pen is on the desk". He kinda combined pen and is into one word.

Yeah ... that "pen is" joke has been around forever in various forms.
 
I, like probably many of us on this forum, have books of half-finished songs.  One of them which I will get around to finishing before I die is a tune's whose working title is ...
 
"The Pen Is in Her Hand"
 
and the chorus lyric is something like:
 
the pen is in her hand
and she's writing - your biography
you know I would not want
to be you now - words will set her free

 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

Notice the heart at the end of the exclamation point there?  That teacher is going to either be in trouble or disappointed after class.

Currently trying to learn Chinese myself, loved this one!

bitflipper
I got multiple chuckles out of this collection of kids' incorrect - but plausible - test answers.
 
http://distractify.com/fun/fails/test-answers-that-are-totally-wrong-but-still-genius/
 
Example:
A coin is flipped and then a die is rolled. What is the probability of rolling an odd and then flipping a tail?
A: 0%, because you flipped the coin first.

Thanks we got some belly laughs out of that... and needed them!
 
J

I've seen that "expand" one many times over the years and it still makes me laugh out loud. 
 
I remember at age 11 starting a new school and having to sit a geography exam without having any idea how terrifyingly strict the geography teacher (Dennis "Dusty" Rhoads) was. For the question "Where is it likely to be hotter in the summer: London, or Aviemore - and why?"... I wrote "London, because I was there one summer and it was dead hot." It came back with a huge "SEE ME" literally carved into the paper with red pen. I had to endure a good 10 minutes of shouting in his classroom after school during which I swear I saw clouds of chalk dust rising from the top of his head.