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posted 13 June 2001 01:28            

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A visitor from Berlin was looking for the Munich central railway station. He already was in a bit of a hurry and at the corner of a street, when he met to Bavarians, he asked in his northern German: Wo ist hier bitte der Hauptbahnhof? - No answer. He tried it anew: Where do I find the railway station please? - Again silence. So he tried it in French, Spanish and at last in Russian, but still getting no answer, so at last he hurried on hoping to catch his train. As he disappeared one of the two Bavarians asked the other: Did you notice how many languages the Prussian could speak? - Well, replied the other, but what did it good to him?

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posted 09 July 2001 18:54            

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Thanks - I've used this one in tranfree 35

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posted 10 July 2001 09:05            

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There's a Hungarian version to this one. Two Hungarian policemen smoking on a street corner. A tourist approaches and asks:

"Entschuldigung Sie bitte, Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"

Uh?

"I'm sorry, do you speak English?"

Uh?

He's tries a third time:

"Pardon moi, parlez-vous Francais?"

Uh?

The poor tourist gives up and wanders off. One policeman turns to the other and says:

"You know, we should really learn a foreign language."

His partner shrugs:

"What for? Look how many languages that guy spoke and it didn't do him any good."

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