Posted by Shelly on 09/24/07 17:57

"Gandalf" <goldnery@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1190654258.969433.190010@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
> I'm from Israel, their for I'm not usually speaks english.
> more then that I have a learning disabilities, but still I'm trying
> really hard...
> believe me, I know I have gramar mistakes. no need for dicks like to
> you be laughing at me.
>
> you think you're smart?
> let's see you speak hebrew ...

I used to work for a French company here in the US. Every three months I
would go to Paris for a week or so on business. I speak no French, and the
French are obsessive about their language. I found that all I had to do was
try to say a something in what very little French I could muster and they
would answer me in English. All they wanted was the courtesy of the
attempt.

A fellow employee from the US spoke French. They moved him from the US to
France so that he could translate the manuals that they had written first in
English (by English speakers) into French. He found that as his French
improved, he encountered more trouble from the French people because they
thought he was a Frenchman who spoke poorly rather than (as at the
beginning) a foreigner who spoke French pretty well.

You, a foreigner, tried to speak in English, and so you should have been
treated with respect -- more so than afforded to English speakers who cannot
put together a decent sentence.

Shelly

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