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From: chmorris@watrose.UUCP (chmorris)
Newsgroups: net.travel,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Usenet Phrase Guide--request for help
Message-ID: <7908@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 16:02:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 16:02:11 1986
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Summary: 

In article <499@utastro.UUCP> anita@utastro.UUCP (Anita Cochran) writes:
>Though I do not want to appear rude by insisting on English, when we
>covered 3 countries in 3 weeks, it hardly paid to learn the languages.
>This was never a problem and the Scandinavians did not seem to resent
>talking in English.
I expect this depends which countries you covered, and how remote an area.
When we went to Norway, Denmark and (briefly) Sweden, we found a large number
of people who did not speak English!  Many of these people knew German (or,
exceptionally, French), but in rural Norway the farmer we stayed with did
not speak any of these three languages and we were very glad of our Norwegian
phrase book.

Corinne Morris at the University of Waterloo