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Donnageddon · 06-25-2009, 02:19 AM

Sweetpea, you are light years ahead of me. I admire anyone that read and make basic conversation in another language. But your English is fantastic. You use the English language better than 9 out of 10 Americans I converse with daily.

I think Europeans have an advantage because "foreign languages" are just a few kilometers away. In America it is "English" (for the most part) everywhere you go for hundreds (and hundreds) of miles.

And because, culturally, we are taught that foreign languages are just guttural gibberish.

I am only slightly kidding.

06-25-2009, 02:19 AM	#4
Donnageddon Now you lishen here... Posts: 2,494 Karma: 479498 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Seattle-ish Device: Sony PRS-650. Kobo Touch, Kindle Fire	Sweetpea, you are light years ahead of me. I admire anyone that read and make basic conversation in another language. But your English is fantastic. You use the English language better than 9 out of 10 Americans I converse with daily. I think Europeans have an advantage because "foreign languages" are just a few kilometers away. In America it is "English" (for the most part) everywhere you go for hundreds (and hundreds) of miles. And because, culturally, we are taught that foreign languages are just guttural gibberish. I am only slightly kidding.