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Why they won’t stop speaking English and how to keep the conversation “foreign”

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You want to sound more fluent but they just switch to English

You’re visiting the country at last.  Your long-awaited chance to practise “in the field” has arrived.  You start to speak….stumbling utterances and then…..   You are answered in English.  It’s happened to me often enough and it’s left me feeling a failure, humiliated or just disappointed.   What’s this all about and how can get people to stop speaking English?   I’m coming … [Read more...]

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