JotSC ... citizens of the member countries of the European Common Union can immigrate amongst themselves ... my wife was on business last May to Portugal and she was astounded by the many different European workers in the office, all working cohesively amongst one another ... broken Portugese, broken English, broken Danish etc ... the business functions amazingly. If you have ever resided for a while in a foreign country ... you learn the basics of that county's language to get by as needed very quickly.

My son taught English in South Korea for 2 years ... within a couple of months he knew enough Korean to get by, knew enough to know when he was being taken advantage of, knew enough to visit Koreans homes to communicate with new found friends and their families.

In regards to Israel ... I saw a documentry recently which was on the difficulty of new immigrants learning Hebrew ... a majority cannot pass the mandatory courses, many get frustrated and leave.

biLL