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Americans and their language barrier

Katie Hinderer | 15 September 2010
I’ve been meeting a lot of international students in the past few weeks and one of the things that keeps impressing me is the fact that most of them know several languages. They know their native tongue, English and one or two more. Most Americans… well, we know American English and that’s all.
 
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