Split personality

I had some help

My German isn't up to writing that.I passed a CSE (wots one of those? It was a very very long time ago when mullet hairstyles and white stillettos weren't fashion suicide ( I never had a mullet though, not telling about the shoes) when a CSE was a poor second to a GCE 'O' level)My french is almost non-existant. I have got by in Italian and am swotting up for a weekend in Venice, and the same goes for Spanish, (except the Venice part) which I'll be working on for a holiday in Mexico later this year.

I think we (Brits) do take it for granted that other nations will speak our lingo, after all, it is an international language when it comes to business and airlines.

This is rather ignorant though and I think we should try better... English is now compulsory in Chinese shcools and kids under 10 are virtually fluent. I like to try and get by, even if I'm not devoting time to learn the languages properly, and going by experiences in Italy, it was appreciated by many of the people I met and I avoided getting ripped off in a resteraunt.The great thing there (Rome) was that although a tourist area not many people spoke anything other than Italian.

Mexico may be the same, I'm told the yanks just click their fingers for the waiters so maybe speaking a little will go a long way... even so, I'd like to do more, but have yet to find/make the time to enrole on a course. The standard of languages of European countries generally puts us to shame, someone who can converse in a foreign language on a forum gets my total respect.

Originally posted by Spot192 you´re able to talk german??? never met a brit who was able to speak german.

ok, can't resist...

Vot is your name?

and if you are too young to remember Dad's Army(stupid boy), you must  know Only Fools and Horses!

(sorry if thats already been odne on ths thread but I ain't reading 10 pages just to check!)