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Re: Hello to you all!

From:Keith Gaughan <kgaughan@...>
Date:Monday, March 4, 2002, 12:57
From: Frank George Valoczy [mailto:valoczy@VCN.BC.CA]

> What I have found on my travels. The Icelanders are amazed that anyone > bothered to learn their language, the Swedes similarly. The > Finns I met were the same way until they found out I'm Hungarian, then > it seemes as though they took it to be natural that I'd be learning > Finnish.
Here in Ireland, people are shocked when a foreigner can actually string two words of Irish together. The sad thing is, the foreigners are usually better and more proud of the language than the natives, in which I sadly number :-(
> He was not amused. In Germany I've never had > anything like Christophe mentioned, rather, everyone I speak to is > convinced that I'm from some little village in the south.
Or Switzerland!

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