Talk:Blogs:JaroslavTulach:Daily Life:The More Languages
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Abubakar Gurnah said ...
Tom Wheeler said ...
"the more languages you know, the more you are Hungarian!"
My most memorable experience with real polyglots was in Aruba. I was grabbing a quick bite to eat in a busy fast food restaurant in downtown Oranjestad one day. There were five or six people in line in front of me and the cashier was able to easily handle each of them in their native languages. This included English, Spanish, German, Dutch and Papiemento (a creole native to the island). This wasn't unusual for Arubans -- most of the people I met spoke at least three languages.
Strangely, this cashier always initiated the conversation and was somehow was able to determine what language the customer spoke before they actually said anything. The cashier just said the equivalent of "may I take your order" in the customer's native language and it seemed she always guessed right.
--Tom Wheeler 16:30, 22 January 2010 (CET)
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I like this... i have to learn one of those...
--Abubakar Gurnah 07:53, 22 January 2010 (CET)