Re: Abdu'l-Baha's knowledge of English

[Sandra Chamberlain]

Susan:  <>Dear Ron and Sandra,  I think  Abdu'l-Baha's 
knowledge of English may well have been adequate to understand 
people without an interpreter much of the time, at least by 
the time He left America. I suspect speaking English back to 
them may have been more of a problem. But when a translator 
got it wrong, He was often able to correct them.<>

I agree, and should have been clearer in my reply.  I feel it 
wasn't so much a lack of "understanding" as fluency.

I've been in two environments when I understood Spanish and 
later Inupiaq (in the last century) ...enough so that words 
were chosen carefully around me ; )  Still was not able to 
converse in those languages.

Sandra

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