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Why Speak English in America?

November 30, 2007 - 1:00 am - by Aaron Hanscom
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2007-12-03 00:20:49

I was talking to a kid, maybe 17, who was bagging my groceries and noticed he had a slight accent though he talked in American teenaged slang. I asked him where he was from and he told me Pakistan. I asked him how long it took him to learn his English and said about six months, mostly by just hanging around with other American English-speaking kids.