Message text flying_neko wrote:
kduke wrote: First of all, that's poor English-- it should be "somewhere" (one word, not two.) In my opinion, we should be grateful to all non-native English speakers who make an effort to speak English  . But if you would rather speak French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian or Mandarin, for me it's ok  . Just tell us your list of language preferences.  --- Message edited by flying_neko
Just my two cents, but I am very grateful that the webmasters and, what appears to be, the vast majority of the pilots have, at the very minimum, a very good grasp of the English language and have chosen to communicate, for the most part, in the forum, etc., in English.
I can't speak for everybody over here, but I do admire and appreciate the effort that Europeans, and others, go through to learn English, and other foreign languages. It shows greater cultural awareness and tolerance for other societies, in addition to a greater ability to communicate.
While I have not traveled to foreign countries extensively, I have traveled to some remote areas in Africa and virtually all of the natives spoke at least a little English! I can guarantee you that virtually nobody in the United States knows Chichewa!
Amazing stuff. While the majority of colleges here in the US require that its graduates take, at least, a few semesters of a foreign language, I think that it would be for the benefit of all if more students took that requirement seriously.
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