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Day November 4, 2007

Foreigners & Their Exotic Tongues

James Fallows offers a few amusing notes on the challenges a traveller faces overseas.
I, too have had some of these experiences, though my luck in France was better than the sax player Fallows mentions.
A young Vietnamese shopkeeper greeted me in German one morning. There was no shortage of German, French and Australian visitors in this area.