Sally the linguist

Sally has lately begun showing us her linguistic skills. She knows as much Spanish as I do (ie none), but during our 6 weeks in Tenerife was able to tune herself into the language so she began to understand directions, menus, ingredients etc, all of which remained incomprehensible to me. And now we have reached French speaking Benin, she's chatting away to anyone and everyone in rapid French that leaves me way behind. She assures me that her French is still very basic, but I'm well impressed. Olly