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quotePosted at 10:52 on 17th January 2011

I'm working for a major international oil company and have many colleagues from all over the world. In this business everybody speaks english (althoug the French with a terrible accent) so for the native English speakers there is no need to learn an extra language.

At the moment I have one colleague from England who is speaking Dutch very well. So it is possible but exeptional.

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quotePosted at 10:58 on 17th January 2011

people are very fortunate these days re/languages it was rarely heard of years ago for anyone to speak another"tongue" as it was called then \

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quotePosted at 11:15 on 17th January 2011
Languages are limited in our schools. It's either Spainsh, French or Italian. And they are not taken very seriously. Samantha's dad side of the family is Colombian so she should be able to speak spanish but she doesn't try. She is not taking advantage of it. Currently learning Latin and getting straight A's!!
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quotePosted at 12:30 on 17th January 2011
On 17th January 2011 10:52, Ted wrote:

I'm working for a major international oil company and have many colleagues from all over the world. In this business everybody speaks english (althoug the French with a terrible accent) so for the native English speakers there is no need to learn an extra language.

At the moment I have one colleague from England who is speaking Dutch very well. So it is possible but exeptional.


I didn't mean to suggest that English people couldn't learn another language, but it does seem to be unusual for them to do so as you say Ted.

My own son is fluent in German, Afrikaans and Zulu (so I know they can!) - unfortunately his Latin didn't help in Italy though, lol. 

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