Sunday, February 1, 2009

Multilingual birthday

We went to a birthday party on Saturday for a woman we know. She has one of the greatest names ever: Lucy Russi. (They rhyme.) She's from Peru and her husband is Swiss, so she speaks Swiss German with a Spanish accent. They also invited some friends from France, so the nationalities represented at the birthday party were Switzerland, Peru, the United States, and France. We sang Happy Birthday to her in German, Spanish, English, and Italian. (No one at the party was from Italy or the Italian part of Switzerland, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.)

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