{"id":676,"date":"2009-02-15T20:19:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T20:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=676"},"modified":"2009-02-15T20:20:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T20:20:45","slug":"international-scouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"International Scouting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lah-n8p\" <\/p>\n

This week has had a bit of an international flavour for me. I\u2019ve have an Email from Scouter Jeremy in Canada, a couple of emails from Lotta who is a Cub Leader in Sweden (and I\u2019m going to send her some badges tomorrow), I had a good chat (hooray for Skype!) with SM Jerry in the States, read and contributed to the blogs listed on the right and Tweeted and used instant messaging to \u2018talk\u2019 to a few other people in the USA. <\/p>\n

None of this would have happened if I was not a Scout \u2013 \u2018A Scout is a Member of the World Wide Family of Scouts\u2019 \u2013 indeed. <\/p>\n

However, one thing does slightly bother me. Emailing Lotta made me realise that she speaks and writes excellent English. I, however, do not know a word of Swedish. I did know a few when I camped with some Swedish Scouts in 1992, but these were mainly the more \u2018colourful\u2019 phrases and I\u2019ve forgotten them now. I don\u2019t have any working knowledge of any other languages to be honest \"Embarrassed\".<\/p>\n

But looking at the list of blogs on the right, they are all written in English. I do come across blogs and web sites written in languages other than English and Google\u2019s translation site<\/a> is very useful here. But this doesn\u2019t always translate correctly. The idea of a site or blog can be got, but it\u2019s not the same as being able to read it in the native language.<\/p>\n

English is spoken by so many people around the world, that there is little need for people in countries that speak it natively to learn any other language, sorry if that sounds arrogant. <\/p>\n

So to anyone reading this whose native tongue is not English, thank you for reading and I hope I\u2019m not being too obscure some times.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the positive, I\u2019m able to speak to, chat, read and interact with lots of people from different countries and cultures. What could be better and more enlightening? <\/p>\n

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