Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[C Day]

Until Last spring a German glider pilot who "Learned to Fly for Hitler" 
(the name of his auto-biography) lived about 8 miles north of me.  He made 
his last glider flight after living in the US since about 1949.  He was 
fluent in German and English.  He had no accent from one language when 
speaking the other.  He worked as a translator in Germany for the US Army 
from 1945 to 1949 and taught himself to lose the accent when speaking the 
other language.  He also did not have a mid-western twang when he spoke 
English.

Charlie Day

Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Bill Campbell propounded (on Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:52:08PM -0700):
> | I've often discussed this with ``spanish'' friends from the U.S.
> | Southwest, and they've always said that bilingual education is a losing
> | proposition, that it's critical to be able to speak English fluently to get
> | along in the main stream society.
> 
> A bilingual education leaves a student unable to speak English fluently?
> Nonsense!
> 
> I had a bilingual education, and aver, assert and proclaim that I speak
> English totally fluently.  If the "bi-" side has suffered in my case,
> it's that in recent years I have had only sporadic occasions to read or
> write French.
>