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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="Roger Thijs">Roger Thijs</span> </font><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:rogerthijs@yahoo.com">rogerthijs@yahoo.com</a>><br>
</font></span></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Language acquisition" 2013.07.09 (02) [CY-EN]</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">I'm in (Y)ekaterinburg this week and surprised how poor the knowledge of English here is. Even the lady at the tourist information desk at the airport (Koltsovo) does not speak English.</div>
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">The same holds for some restaurants. Fortunately some menu cards have pictures of the main dishes.</div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
At the event side some staff people have a badge "I speak English", but asking them to explain how to drive to the airport is much too much asked for (The exit of the exhibition area is only towards downtown and one cannot u-turn on the motoway).</div>
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">The Hertz car rental guy could not distinguish between the fee one pays for the damage insurance and the franchise still to pay in case of an accident. He charged me the franchise first in stead of the insurance fee.</div>
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Stupid me, I should have learned to speak Russian.</div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">My Yahoo menu appeared in Russian here at first, but after a warning against use of false identity, I could switch. </div>
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">American websites (as Yahoo, Linkedin...) automatically give<var></var> warnings when one logs in from a Russian IP address.</div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
I'm at Innoprom this week (<a href="http://www.innoprom.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.innoprom.com/</font></a>) and staying at the Angelo airport hotel in Koltsovo.</div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
Regards,</div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Roger</div></font></div></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">==============================</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">===========================</font></font></span></p>
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