heh...no disrespect intended, of course, but come on, that's just funny right there, I don't care who you am! I have worked with people of many different nationalities for many years, and we've all had a lot of fun (and frustration) dealing with the language barrier, theirs and mine. When I lived in Anchorage, I worked for a catering company where we worked in two-man teams, putting food on airlines. One of my partners was Filipino and later on, the other was Laotian. We spent many hours on the flight line waiting for delayed flights, and lemme tell you, those guys laughed as hard as I do at my attempts to learn their languages. Tagalog was a cinch to pick up, but Lao? Not on your life. I about swallowed my face. [
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I respect people's ability to speak more than one language...to a point. When someone makes a statement about people with English as a first language being poor at learning a second language, it irks me a little bit. Realistically, if Cantonese were the most prolific language on the planet, I'm sure most of us would be able to spout enough of a butchered version of it to sell products to Asia (where the world's most gluttonous market would be in this scenario), so it's not really raw ability that we're talking about, it's a circumstantial result.
So thank you are leaving me to alone and not to chastise us selves!
