06-13-2005, 09:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-13-2005, 09:59 AM by Andromeda18_.)
geo85 Wrote:Its nice how I have to learn someone elses language if I am going to their country but when some people come over here we have to accomidate them, this country was founded on proper English english. And as you can see I didnt like taking french or I would of remembered that line.
What I said works both ways, if you go to a country you should know at least a bit of their language but if people visit your country they should know at least a bit of your language as well. However, when the native language of a country is English the probability of visitors speaking it is much higher than the probability of you speaking any other language since English is the 'international' language. English is everywhere, it's taught in the schools of just about every country (well, at least the ones with enough money) and there's this social idea that knowing English is a necessity (which it is). So believe me, England, the USA and other English speaking countries don't have to make as big an effort to accomodate the turists visiting them as do countries like Italy and Greece for instance.
And I'm sorry if I offended you by correcting your sentence, I was just joking.