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Old 25th Feb 2009, 07:23
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BelArgUSA
 
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Multilingual idiot here.
Fluent French, Spanish, English, good Dutch, some Portuguese, a little German.
Can understand some other languages, like Italian or Scandinavians.
Can read Greek or Russian alphabet as an example.
Sorry, I slept during my Latin/Greek classes in school.
xxx
French is excellent if you often operate in Africa.
Spanish is South America. They might understand some Spanish in Brazil.
I think Mandarin is slowly taking over Japanese as Asian business language.
xxx
English...?
In South America, rural areas, English is worthless.
In Miami, English is "second language"... I met some tourists speaking English there.

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