[WillowTheWhisp]

It's good to hear the other side of things from both of you. We wee talking about this the other day and said that if we moved to live in Spain, as my friend's son has done, we would expect to learn the language and to learn how to live a Spanish lifestyle so as to integrate with the people and not stick out like a sore thumb. Of course we'd always be English and I suppose Spain with its holiday connections really isn't a good example because you could get away with speaking English and living there but the point is that we wouldn't actually want to. We'd consider it ignorant.

Even when the French market came people had a go at speaking French when they were buying things and saying "Merci" instead of "Ta"