(October 27, 2010 at 6:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Are you kidding me?Actually It's rather inadequate..
The guides aside ( and there was a decidedly archaeological aspect to the trip so the guides were all moonlighting professors and such) we found that we could converse easily with waiters and drivers and even salesmen in the shops. They had no trouble making themselves understood or understanding us.
You were in a touristic place I assume.. If so, they have to know foreign languages at least well enough to sell their goods.
They know not just english but french, russian and spanish also.
Quote:The way languages are taught here you forget it all as soon as the test is over.Completely same here..
Quote:Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Gandalf The Gray.
