http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/08/29/language-guides-for-travellers/ Language Learning and Multiculturalism Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/08/29/language-guides-for-travellers/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Coalition Of The Willing « Tower of Confusion Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:58:30 +0000 http://towerofconfusion.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/language-guides-for-travellers/#comment-286 [...] 7, 2007 Posted by Edwin in Cantonese, Speaking, French, English. trackback Naturegirl left a comment on my previous post, mentioning a common scenario, where you want to practice your target language, [...] [...] 7, 2007 Posted by Edwin in Cantonese, Speaking, French, English. trackback Naturegirl left a comment on my previous post, mentioning a common scenario, where you want to practice your target language, [...]

]]> http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/08/29/language-guides-for-travellers/comment-page-1/#comment-285 naturegirl Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:02:20 +0000 http://towerofconfusion.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/language-guides-for-travellers/#comment-285 Yop, especially because when the locals see that you have such difficulty with their language, they will immediately switch to English. Actually this sometimes annoys me, because even when I really spend a lot of time learning a foreign language and then I'm eager to practice it, they still switch to English because they see I'm a foreigner. That happened to me a lot in France and I wish that would change. Yop, especially because when the locals see that you have such difficulty with their language, they will immediately switch to English.
Actually this sometimes annoys me, because even when I really spend a lot of time learning a foreign language and then I’m eager to practice it, they still switch to English because they see I’m a foreigner. That happened to me a lot in France and I wish that would change.

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