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This is why I don't tour in most foreign countries. My language skills are terrible, (not for lack of trying) and the most important thing of touring a foreign country is meeting the people (or so it seems to me). And you can't do it without learning at least some of the language. Or so this "ugly American" feels.
(I can never sort out another language in my mind. It always becomes an auxillary vocabulary to English to me. and after I tried to learn two languages (German after Spanish), they both got lumped into the same "aux vocabulary" and get mangled together. The result are..ahem...interesting, to say the least. But I can sound like I'm from the barrios, a la Cheech and Chong, mainly because I am...)
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