>>How's your Russian now? My old roommate married an American girl from Dayton OH and she has lived in Turkey for 30 years. When I visited them I was amused to see she now speaks English with a Turkish accent <g> Another friend, a girl from Minnesota went off to live in Australia and when she called me ten years later she sounded like Crocodile Dundee.
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>My uncle who moved to Israel as a young man (20ish) in the late 40's speaks fluent English with an Israeli accent. He's a published poet--in Hebrew.
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>Tamar

After almost 40 years away from New York I have gotten to the point where most people can no longer tell where I'm from. OTOH, it only takes a 10 minute conversation with relatives to undo those 40 years.