>Foreign language skills amaze me. I barely speak my native language - but you guys have mastered two or three:-). I bet you haven't watched as much TV as me:-)
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>I asked a Chineese engineer once if he 'thought' in english or chineese. He said he day dreamed and planned with chineese - but he worked his computations (EE math) in english.
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>OS and Office - well don't that trim my stereotypical blinders. I hope at least, we can keep the fox team in Washington state:-)

We live in small country, that force us to speak except native language - Bulgarian, which is close to Russian, Serbian, Czech, Polish some western language.
I study at school English.
My wife study at school - German, but when in University continue his education in Computer science she was forced to learn English too.
It is normally for bulgarian to know Russian and one of German/French/English/Spanish.
In our office programmers speak one or two of them