On Fri, 20 May 2011 19:41:31 +0200, Francois Labreque  

<fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:


>>
>> I found *very* few people in China speak English. India has enough
>> different languages that even in India people tend to speak English a
  

>> lot.
>>
> English IS the official language of India.  Most Indians who know a  

> second language will know their mother tongue (Punjabi, Bengali, etc..
.)  

> and English.
>
> I have been on conference calls with people from India, where people  

> from different regions had to resort to English to speak to each other
.
>

This is true. I once had a colleague fresh from India. I had to  

continually ask him to repeat slowly over and over until I understood wh
at  

he said. They write much better than they talk.

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-Nekar Xenos-

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