[OT] Re[2]: come back

[Keith Matthews]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:47:31 +0200 (MEST)  <address@hidden> wrote:

> En rponse  OKUJI Yoshinori <address@hidden>:

> > Ok, I came back to Japan yesterday. I will be busy for a while,
> > because of house-moving and some desk works, but I'll try to read and
> > reply e-mail about GRUB accumulated in my mailbox from now on... Give
> > more time to me.
> > 
> > [BTW, why are ordinary French people so poor at English? That was all
> > I felt inconvenient in France...]

> It has been like this for ages. And even if an average amount of french people
> is able to read common english, the practice is not sufficient to be able to
> speak or understand when it's spoken.

I regret to have to say that the common or garden Englishman is no
better at French (or German or ...).

One of the problems of working in IT is that English is very much
the lingua Franca of the industry. As long as you can read and
understand some spoken English you can communicate with fellow
professionals, but once it comes to those outside the the industry ...

And speaking English all day in the office does not help getting used
to hearing the local language.

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