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>> And while I'm being talkative I'd like to second what Holly and a few |
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>>others have hinted at. Command of language is essential. As someone who |
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>>stumbled into the admin/network business nine years ago I can say that my |
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>>writing and language skills, specifically the lack of either, did far more to |
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>>hold my career back than any missing technical skills. |
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> Indeed, life is harder for those of us who don't have English as first |
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> language. |
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>>kashani, still trying to get his German, Spanish, and Farsi up to speed |
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In a way I am glad to have English as a native language but in others |
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most decidedly not. Can you imagine how hard it is to learn another |
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language when everyone wants to speak English to you? I even speak a |
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bastard dialect (linguisticly one of the "purest" but where have the |
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"standards" gone!) and that doesn't help... I speak a few languages and |
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am pretty good at accents (by far the best way to get people to forget |
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you are a foreigner) but still get frustrated with the eagerness with |
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which people switch to English with me. My philosophy has always been |
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when in Rome but anyway... I guess Rome is now the internet. |
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Salem, |
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Antoine |
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ps. I have just started Arabic - Sabah lkhair! It's not morning but |
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unfortunately the Al-Jazeerah website seems to only stream... wma! |
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(Haven't got to evening yet!) argh! and gentoo+mplayer/xine doesn't like |
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it... and I thought it was a "libre" thinking news source! |
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pps. any hints on getting al-jazeera (audio of their news channel) to work? |
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