Do You Speak English

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  Lesson 14 Do You Speak English

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  Did the young man speak English?

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  I had an amusing experience last year.

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  After I had left a small village in the south of France,

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  I drove on to the next town.

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  On the way, a young man waved to me.

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  I stopped and he asked me for a lift.

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  As soon as he had got into the car,

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  I said good morning to him in French and he replied in the same language.

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  Apart from a few words,

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  I do not know any French at all.

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  Neither of us spoke during the journey.

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  I had nearly reached the town, when the young man suddenly said, very slowly,

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  'Do you speak English?'

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  As I soon learnt, he was English himself!