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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 17 of 18 24 December 2011 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
And of course the reason why we laugh is that it has become so common to speak English at a quite
advanced level. Had these athletes spoken Russian, or Arabic or Japanese, we would have been impressed
even with the mistakes.
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 18 of 18 24 December 2011 at 4:01pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
And of course the reason why we laugh is that it has become so common to speak English at a quite
advanced level. Had these athletes spoken Russian, or Arabic or Japanese, we would have been impressed
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True, but at the same time I've met plenty of people around his age smack in the middle of Madrid and Milan that speak English at about his level or lower, even.
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