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Thank you for sharing that bad translation, can just imagine an elephant squeezed into a car boot squirting water :)
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Second languages aren't properly taught here is the U.S. Usually the teachers are not native speakers and a second language isn't required even at most universities (I went to U.C. Berkeley).
When I last went to England to visit family for Christmas, I took the Chunnel train for a day trip to Disneyland Paris. I was embarrassed when I got to the park. My five years of junior high and high school French was unusable. My one year of Japanese (Berkeley) was not needed.
At Disney parks cast members wear flag pins on their name tags to indicate the laguages they speak fluently. Here in the U.S. you rarely see more than one pin (if any) and it's usually for a language spoken at home. At the French park cast members had four, even five pins!
Americans just aren't taught to appreciate other languages, nor cultures. I apologize on behalf of the entire population of the U.S. :oops:
When I last went to England to visit family for Christmas, I took the Chunnel train for a day trip to Disneyland Paris. I was embarrassed when I got to the park. My five years of junior high and high school French was unusable. My one year of Japanese (Berkeley) was not needed.
At Disney parks cast members wear flag pins on their name tags to indicate the laguages they speak fluently. Here in the U.S. you rarely see more than one pin (if any) and it's usually for a language spoken at home. At the French park cast members had four, even five pins!
Americans just aren't taught to appreciate other languages, nor cultures. I apologize on behalf of the entire population of the U.S. :oops:
