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Drawing out another language?
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Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5090 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German	Message 9 of 11 21 September 2014 at 7:08pm \| IP Logged
	I just ask people where they are from and if it is a French speaking nation, I continue the conversation in French. I never feel too confident in telling the difference between say a Belgian accent and a Dutch one or the accent of someone from Togo vs Ghana so I don't just start speaking French since I know I'm likely to be dissapointed. 1 person has voted this message useful
beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4612 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian	Message 10 of 11 22 September 2014 at 5:22pm \| IP Logged
	I come across many Germans in the Scottish Highlands. Just yesterday I was out climbing and bumped into three separate German groups. I've never had any difficultly getting German people to speak their own language with me, particularly if you throw in a bit of humour and/or self-deprecation at the outset. 1 person has voted this message useful
tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4697 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish	Message 11 of 11 22 September 2014 at 5:33pm \| IP Logged
	It's not that hard, you figure it out and then go from the point where it's the most useful to use a certain language. Swedes have never spoken to me in English and they've never had to. They could always simply speak Swedish and so it's always been. 1 person has voted this message useful

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