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The maid didn't understand a word of the English. However, the owner was from India, and speaks at least two languages not native to India - English and Spanish. Not long ago, I worked with a Mexican who's been here for twenty years, the last ten working almost exclusively with English speakers: he's just now getting around to the idea that he needs to take some English as a second language classes. I asked Elena how this could be - at least he should have picked up more English through osmosis. Her reply was that for all those years he didn't want to.
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