(06-08-2020, 05:51 PM)Kacee Wrote: I enjoyed working with other cultures in a couple of jobs I had and loved learning their languages too.  Unfortunately I forget it too fast if I don't keep it up but was fun at the time and they enjoyed teaching me.  Those not speaking English very well would come to me for clarification on something as I could get through to them in broken English and showing them with few words what they needed to understand.  I taught them what many of our slang words meant as well.  From Samoan to Spanish and some in-between, made boring jobs fun.
I agree, I have a friend from South America and his English is still not the greatest despite him loving here for about 2 decades.
Hes taught me the odd thing in Spanish, and he is not afraid to ask me what a particular word means in English either.