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MiddleFingerMom

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13. A SMALL minority of the troops in Germany gained real fluency in the language...
Wed May 23, 2012, 04:38 PM
May 2012

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... despite the 3-1/2 year tours. In Japan (where the language is even HARDER to learn)... very, very few
gained fluency).
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I worked for a Physician's Asst in Germany whose wife was Japanese and he was VERY fluent. Riding the
bus home one day, he gave up his seat to an elderly woman and stood near two young Japanese women.
They started giggling and, assuming ignorance on his part, one asked the other, "I wonder if all Americans
smell so badly."
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He smiled and said, "I wonder if all young Japanese women are so rude."
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Beet-red embarrassment and he said the elderly Japanese woman was laughing so hard that she almost fell
out of her seat.
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LOL! lunatica May 2012 #1
Yup, I live on a street with a Spanish name and here in my area of Los Angeles County Raine May 2012 #16
Is the name of that "spainish" street Takeco? lonestarnot May 2012 #21
Uh no Raine May 2012 #26
Soright Bobalouie. lonestarnot May 2012 #27
I live in a Spanish-named town in a Spanish-named county Retrograde May 2012 #23
These people are too much. surrealAmerican May 2012 #2
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Somebody wanna call the whaaaambulance for Peter Thomas? gratuitous May 2012 #5
Peter Thomas' reaction is instructive here MrScorpio May 2012 #6
Remember the Philadelphia restaurant owner with the English only sign? alp227 May 2012 #31
You'd really have to try not to learn at least a little basic MineralMan May 2012 #7
I am VERY disappointed in myself for NOT learning much more than restaurant Spanish. VERY. MiddleFingerMom May 2012 #9
It doesn't take much language skill MineralMan May 2012 #12
A SMALL minority of the troops in Germany gained real fluency in the language... MiddleFingerMom May 2012 #13
People almost never think Americans know any language MineralMan May 2012 #17
Sometimes... but there's WAY 'Murrcans" out there who will say... MiddleFingerMom May 2012 #19
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Hey Pete nykym May 2012 #8
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I HOPE that's true. I admired their accepting pesos (Michiganders have been been accepting... MiddleFingerMom May 2012 #14
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You know, I've heard enough people sing their "praises" in the last few years... MiddleFingerMom May 2012 #18
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What a great way to get hundreds of adults to study another language. Even a little. n/t jtuck004 May 2012 #20
Can the tantrums get any more childish than this? n/t Bolo Boffin May 2012 #22
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When Latinos do it, it's discrimination. When they do it EFerrari May 2012 #29
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