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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Michael McCartin"><span name="Dick van Faassen"><span name="Roger Thijs">Roger Thijs</span> <span><<a href="mailto:rogerthijs@yahoo.com">rogerthijs@yahoo.com</a>></span></span></span></span></font></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Michael McCartin"><span></span></span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L Language use</font></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> From: "Obiter Dictum" </font><a href="mailto:obiterdictum@mail.ru" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">obiterdictum@mail.ru</font></a><br>
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> Subject: LL-L "Symbols" 2013.04.28 (01) [EN]</font><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> > PS. The knowledge of English is very poor in Moscow, <br>
> even in hotels. In the metro it is a puzzle to find out what <br> > is the best ticket for the number of rides one plans in one's <br> > timeframe.</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> > Rodger, what had you expected? (and why, for that mater? I have a theory, but I would like to know how you explain it). <var></var></font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Some thoughts:</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I was staying in the Cosmos hotel facing the park with the famous “all Russian” monuments. As a matter of fact the hotel is not really focused on foreign tourists, though very much on internal Russian tourists. So the organized tours were advertised in Russian only and done with Russian speaking guides. Even the lady at the Intourist desk did not speak English. For me that is quite different with what one finds in downtown hotels in St.-Petersburg. </font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">At the little shops of the entrance of the park one sells nostalgic t-shirts with CCCP texts and symbols. The youngsters in the street though rather wear t-shirts with texts as “I love New-York” though, but do not speak English, or just a few words.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I attended a transport exhibition in pavilion 75 in the park. Flanders had a big nice group stand for the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ghent, but very few visitors. A lot of people though visited the boots of companies from the Baltic States. At these stands business is possible since everybody talks Russian.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I presume the motivation for learning English is not bigger that the motivation for Americans to learn French. And btw, Russia was strongly present on the Hannover Messe some weeks ago and I think German still has a competitive place as foreign language at business level in Eastern Europe.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My next visit will be to the Innoprom fair in Ekaterinburg in July. It is hard or impossible to find travel guides in English for that town. I must admit that it is even difficult to find travel guides in Russian for that town in Moscow. Where to find a road map in whatever language for Sverdlovsk Oblast? And the town is candidate for World Expo 2020.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The good things: I love the food in the restaurants. The steaks are still fried in real real real butter.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,<br>Roger</font></div></font></span></div></div></span><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">==============================</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">===========================<br>
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