From: "George Sherwood" 


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:4473dbe4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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.

George

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