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Posted by shamrokchick on 04-10-2008 at 18:13:

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Originally posted by Ebonyswanne
We get a mixture of American spelling and English in our newspapers...

Which is really bad because our kids learn the English was of spelling at school.

Especially words like Jail = goal... etc

I even get it mixed up at times... agghhhh... (and lets not get into grammar... not my strongest talent. Mmmm I think i can even insult the English language at times...but it forgives me...sigh!!!)

Spanish isn't really taught in schools in Aust..

From what I know its Chinese (mandarine, however you spell it...) and French.

The Asian languages are becoming more common, it makes sense since Asia is our nearest neighbour...

That makes since.... here Spanish is the most common and probably French in second... I don't know of very many people on the east coast who learned an Asian language... mostly see the European ones offered...

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Posted by saturn on 05-10-2008 at 08:56:

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Originally posted by Reboekah
Hey there Saturn!

I may have been suffering serious culture shock during my time there in 1997... Crazy2

Spent months working on an application implementation, dealing with clients in Jakarta and Singapore, wrestling with the US vendor, and coordinating testing with international credit card organizations... didn't leave much time for learning the language as much as I would have wished... and then the financial markets tanked and we moved to another country and another project. But I still recall watching Sailor Moon Super S in Bahasa Indonesian and Shurato in Mandarin... :grin:

I hope I get the opportunity to get back someday.

Dear Reboekah,
Yes, please do come back and visit Indonesia again. This country has definitely bounced back from the bad economic crisis in 1998 and there have been many major developments since then.
The advantage of living in Indonesia is of course the diversity of the cultures here, so if you have stayed long enough in this country, you can basically master bahasa Indonesia with all its various dialects, chinese language (because there is quite a big number of Chinese people residing in this country) and even Dutch, as this country was once under the Dutch imperialism, Smile

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