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I live in Israel where Hebrew and Arabic are the 'official' languages, but most everyone learns and speaks English quite well, and it is THE language of business and the internet and diplomacy (these days). Thing is - when one is learning another language, and especially languages like Hebrew & Arabic which are so different from English, it becomes increasingly difficult to remember even the simplest words in English and so we speak in a mixture of two languages (or sometimes more) all at once! In fact, English speakers here (and probably others as well) have a saying - we become NOT fluent in two languages!
suzanne pomeranz, tourism consultant jerusalem, israel - suztours@gmail.com
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