This is a “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” type posts… as I really do want to hear your best multi-lingual story…

Wanna go to school in Ireland? (Photo: Carissa Hickling)

My most memorable multilingual experience was in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the early 1990s. I was there for an academic conference, staying with relatives and catching a bus to the campus each day…

On one bus trip, the driver had a wide smile, jovial manner and a comment or two or three for just about everyone getting on and off the bus… in different languages! By the time it he was on to the 5th language… I simply had to ask his story. (more…)