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Old August 30th 17, 08:21 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:19:24 +0200
"tim..." wrote:
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I'm very disappointed that you can't understand enough French to deal with
such everyday things. Another shameful British habit.


I seem to have an inherent inability to remember more than 1 foreign
language

having (in chronological order) spent 2 years learning Italian, 6 years
learning German and 1 year in Sweden since I left school, 40 years ago

I have lost all ability that I had to communicate in French


As someone who can get by in French I always found written Italian similar
enough to understand at least some of it (spoken italian is another matter,
I can barely understand a word) so I'm surprised the reverse isn't true.

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Spud