karl wrote:I absolutely agree with you about speaking the native language in a country. But does that mean we shouldn't learn other languages? Of course not. I've witnessed white people in both Spain and Mexico make fools of themselves because they didn't speak the language. Kind of embarrassed me and I had to translate for them.
So far as Im concerned I do speak,read,and understand enugh spanish to get by on in this country or there's it not the greatist but I can do it if the non native has some patiance. I also know a little of a few other's. However I view it as kind of a sad thing I have had to learn it at all in as im not the one that has chosen to live in a non-native invironment.