English isn't your first language.

Nope, English isn't my first language. I thought it was, but I guess not. I have this one professor (his first language isn't English) who always chooses me to read out loud to the class. It's a French class that is taught in English (I was disappointed by this) and there are some passages we read that do have French words in them. I've never had a problem pronouncing any of them (he corrects students who do) and maybe that gave it away that English isn't my first language. After all, how could an American possibly know another language? Well, it's part of Ohio's education curriculum for public schools to teach a foreign language in high school. Anyway, the professor always makes sure we know what words mean, and they're usually ones that you would learn in high school ('SAT vocabulary'), but if English isn't your first language, you may have not come across any of them until university. The word on which he paused was 'contingent.' He asked if I knew what it meant and I guessed correctly, but before he asked here's what was said:

'You, would you like to take a guess at the word?'

'Yes,' I replied.

'I cannot tell if English is your first language because of your accent, but have a go at it.'

'Random,' I replied as I thought to myself how he could not tell by my American accent if English was my first language or not. Maybe my English teacher in high school was American? He was, actually. Imagine that: an American teaching a high school English class in America. 

Aside from that, one of the students thought I was English this entire time; however, one knew right away that I was not English. What a lovely person she was, but aside from that, maybe I haven't got the 'American stereotype.'