Ekbalam707  +  83722 Fri, 25 Mar 05 05:40 AM Is not that funny? Most Europeans speak two or three languages... but gringos just speak english! Only english. American english. Ekbalam707 Joined on Tue, Mar 22 2005 New Member 05 Speak English, American English

	Mike in Japan  +  83727 Fri, 25 Mar 05 06:17 AM Hi Ekbalam707. What do you mean by Gringo? Mike in Japan Joined on Tue, Aug 19 2003 Senior Member 4,370 I do like to be beside the seaside

	YoungCalifornian  +  83778 Fri, 25 Mar 05 11:03 AM "Gringo" is a term many Latin Americans use to refer to their white North American neighbors. YoungCalifornian Joined on Mon, Feb 14 2005 Los Angeles, California Regular Member 586

	Mike in Japan  +  83971 Sat, 26 Mar 05 01:27 AM Thanks YoungCalifornian. I guessed that was the case but wonder whether I wider meaning might have been intended. Mike in Japan

	leandro_tami  +  84009 Sat, 26 Mar 05 04:53 AM That's probably they don't have to worry about communicating with the rest of the world. I mean, English is the de-facto international language. However I think knowing more than one language gives you a broader panorama of the world and the way others think. But I'm afraid the most people in the world are monolingual. I don't see this as bad, because it could be that those persons have more important things to do than learning a new language they don't need. I could be wrong, but I think you're probably mexican, right? Mexico is obviously closer to the US than Argentina, and therefore the impact of English in my society is very little compared with the impact of English in yours. Most people in Argentina only speaks Spanish, and inspite Brazil is our neighbor, large masses of people going from and to Brazil are almost nonexistent, and thats why the impact on Portuguese is very little. I'm often amazed about how many people speak foreign languages in other countries. leandro_tami Joined on Mon, Nov 15 2004 Mar del Plata, Argentina Junior Member 68