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"| REGRET very much that the one amenity which you will almost certainly not find anywhere, is that from whatever country you may come it is extremely unlikely that you will be addressed in your mother tongue. We are. as a race notoriously bad linguists, and this is a serious shortcoming. I myself speak fairly passable French, some menu Italian and can just about count from one to six in German and yet I am regarded by my colleagues as a complete polyglot. It is the more shameful in view of the fact that in travelling abroad one always finds even in the remotest places someone who speaks at least some English."-H. E. N. Wilshaw, speaking in the BBC’s Overseas Service on the difficulties of hotelkeeping in England to-day.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 21
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