*** Quoting Maxim Apanovich from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> Hehe I've been sitting here quietly like many, looking for
 CS> conversations I Hcould join in on.
MA> To my mind there has always been a great number of people who know Eng
MA> I think if you had written something you would have get many answers.
MA> As statistics sais, almost 50% of the population of our country speaks
MA> (taking into account that we don't have close connections with EU)
CS> Other than 'someplace where people speak Russian' where do you live?
MA> In Belarus.

Yes, English is fairly common to encounter as a second lanuage.  The next
most ¨common out in Asia along the coastal routes is Russian.
                                       xxcarol

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