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Re: Asian women and the English language.
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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.
Gary if I lived or aspired to live in another country, I would ensure I could at least get 'by' with the local language. The bad 'manners' comes in when they revert back to mother tongue in our presence, in my opinion this is their way of sticking two fingers up at us, because we do not understand what they are saying. This is not conjusive to good relations, or integration.
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Two ex-pat Brits living in Spain, and meeting in a bar/shop/cafe etc., will not be speaking Spanish, even if they can, and even if it is infront of a Spaniard, and won't care a jot about whether the indigenous Spaniard thinks it's bad mannered, or not.
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