Posted By: MKJ on 2008-04-02
In Reply to: Have a bad experience today? Why this out of the blue? - mt3

Yes, bilingualism is great, as long as one of those languages is standard, basic, comprehensible English, if you are living in the US. Europeans speak so many languages because many of their countries are so tiny (example - Switzerland which is tiny, borders Italy, Germany, Austria and France).

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