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One of the beautiful things of living in a foreign land where you don't speak the mother tongue is the ability to tune it all out. Fading in and out of conversations at will is so much easier when you aren't always sure what is being said. When you do understand the language, it always creeps in under the door and you are subconsciously tuned in to anything potentialy interesting. Sometimes, the tune out comes in the middle of my conversations completely unbidden, and I find myself doing the "whuzzahuh?!" But then, there are the times when it becomes a survival tool, such as staff meetings.