[Sussex] Worth a read

[Mark Harrison]

I was in France a couple of weekends ago with some Morgan owners from
France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Most of them spoke 2 or 3 languages fluently. One of the Luxembourgois spoke
5.

I'm fluent in "business and technical french" (one client is based in Lille,
and only the Head of IT speaks English - I work exclusively in French with
their technical staff), but fairly awful at the "day to day french" such as
working things like what the different types of fish on a menu are.

To be fair, though, Angelo, both Geoff and I listed "languages".

Regards,

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angelo Servini" <Angelo.Servini at claybrook.co.uk>
To: <gteale at cmedltd.com>; "'LUG email list for the Sussex Counties'"
<sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Worth a read


> Typical "Great" British Centric thinking!  And we really are bad at this -
> take for example the Swiss and Dutch who apart from being really good
> "English" speakers, are able to speak several European languages.  I speak
> English and Italian fluently, Get by in French, some Spanish, Welsh and a
> few words of of German : (i'd like to improve on this) and Latin.
(showing
> off now!).