>Our firm become a Microsoft partner. Today I needed to talk with a Microsoft worker from Ireland.
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>He only asked me an ID number and a phone number and I difficulty understood him. He wasn't talking like in the films or non-english speakers. I went to Taiwan and I can talk with chinese people in english but I couldn't talk with him (Microsoft's worker) even only two words. :((
My brother in law works for an IT firm in Ireland, He's from France. He shares a flat with others in Dublin and they are from all over Europe. So its more than possible your mans first language was not English anyway.

Nick