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Originally Posted by P1et
What we as Europeans can see right through, is the American trying hard to non-Americanize him/herself for a trip abroad. And why would you?
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Because multi-lingual European locals seem to get amnesia about speaking fluent English when they see us mono-lingual Americans in their countries. I could tell you more than one funny story about how muddling through high school Spanish helped to cure the amnesia, when locals in French/Italian-speaking countries took pity on the dumb Americans in my family.....