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2naSalit

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1. Cool story.
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 07:43 PM
Apr 2022

I wish I had command of more languages. I have Slavic friends and seem to be able to keep up when listening to them. At one point years ago I was working in a new town I had just moved to where I was a cashier at the grocery. There was and older guy who came in every day and got a loaf of french bread and some vegetables but he spoke very little English. I recognized that he was Slavic of some kind and found out, later, that he was Bulgarian.

I told my friend about him and she told me some phrases to use when he came in the next time which I did. The man was floored that I figured it out and liked me from that moment on, I still stop and say hello when I go there. He even made sure that when I wanted to rent a cabin from his brother that I got to rent it. Wasn't far from his place so we saw each other once on a while outside. Sometimes my friend would send me home with some Bulgarian food to give him. She was not from Bulgaria but she knew about the culture, it made the old guy really happy to know that someone knew about his home.

He made every effort to communicate in English for my benefit but we were able to stumble through our conversations well enough. Like me, he could understand more of what he heard than what he could actually say. His brother wasn't much better but they both had great attitude, I lived in that cabin for several years, until I moved away.


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Cool story. 2naSalit Apr 2022 #1
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