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!