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Understandable in English?
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Solfrid Cristin
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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
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Message 18 of 18

24 December 2011 at 4:01pm | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

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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