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En op 27 augustus 2002 sprak Keith Ivey: > I had a fairly extensive conversation like that a few years > ago when a guy wandered into my office and asked me in > Spanish about where he should be applying for a job as > a janitor. I replied in English, he continued in Spanish, > and we communicated reasonably well. Lots of people > understand foreign languages better than they speak > or write them. Good point. Shows my lack of general usenet experience. In my Melbourne childhood, my Greek school friends always spoke to their parents in English, and their parents always seemed to reply in Greek. I always found it amusing to listen to, more so if they broke into an English/Greek dialect. /-\Thread Previous | Thread Next