From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
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>> This sounds great - best of luck with the new job and everything. As for
>> communicating, I've noted that when you're in a foreign country, if you
>> show you've gone through the effort of learning their language even a
>> bit, communicating gets a whole lot easier and people generally become
>> very helpful. With the exception of the French of course 
>>
>
> Agree with all of that.  Russian for me though is working pretty well.  My
> driver seems to be always testing me to see how much I know.   Going to
> have to work on my Azerbaijani.  Hoping to quickly pick up at least the
> basics for greetings and the such.

If you have a camera with you, do post some pics if you can. I've never
been near there, so some virtual traveling would be really cool.


Antti Kurenniemi

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