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Originally Posted by Sancho Panther
In 1970 I went with two friends to Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava for two weeks. We shared a table in the hotel dining room with two lads from Manchester. One day one of them made the remark "We British are very ignorant - we travel everywhere and expect everybody to speak English!". I was outraged at this and resolved to remedy it.
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This is exactly the same for me. I think it's a bit pathetic how so many people in loads of other countries are bilingual and yet in England we only speak English, I don't know any English people who can speak another language.
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On my return I began to follow the BBC's imaginatively named radio course "Starting Spanish". I got on well with this, it was a good course.
The next year we went to the Costa Blanca and I was pleased how well I managed with my fairly limited Spanish. So I continued studying.
The following couple of years we went to Sitges near Barcelona and I couldn't understand a word in spite of my advancing studies! Then on my third visit I learned they weren't speaking Spanish at all, but Catalán!
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On a later visit to Sitges I was on the beach and met a charming señorita, and two years later we were married and soon after we had a daughter who herself lived for fourteen years in Spain.
She is now back in the UK and has just made us grandparents.
AND ALL BECAUSE OF AN OFF-THE-CUFF REMARK IN A SPANISH HOTEL FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO!
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Great story, thanks for sharing. How good would you say your Spanish is now? Fluent?
December 21, 2012, 02:41 AM
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