>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.

I'm sure she speaks turkish with an american accent. My wife is a turkish who moved Turkey from Bulgaria at 8 years old has a different accent. Everyone can understand a Bulgaria immigrated turkish's strange accent even if moved 50 years ago...