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Everyone speaks English to Alex?
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Well said.cristinaro wrote: ↑21 Feb 2018, 06:11 Keen sense of observation! Let me find an explanation for you! Do you remember how Alex was able to access a huge amount of data on the spot? Maybe he used this in order to learn Dutch and we're simply not told. Plus, his intelligence is well above average. I'm just kidding. There are indeed some inconsistencies in the story.
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I agree with you on that. I noticed that as well when I was reading, and it was very disconcerting to me. There was no explanation as to why he could, all of a sudden, understand spoken and written Dutch. It was very off-putting to me, and helped further prevent me from being able to fully submerse myself in the story.Mailis wrote: ↑15 Feb 2018, 04:06 Did I miss something where there was explanation how Alex understands everyone or why everyone always seem to speak English right from the start to him? The Amsterdam Times newspaper he swipes seems to be in English. After falling asleep next to a dumpster he is wakened when a man named Stewart yells at him to get up before he gets arrested. In English seemingly. Everyone in the shelter talks in English and so on...
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That's possible, after all, he seemed absolutely enamored by the internet. He also seemed to really decisive decisions when choosing where he wanted to go, so maybe he made efforts to learn the languages in his youth since he was very intelligent.KRay93 wrote: ↑03 May 2018, 11:17 It's a plausible explanation that his knowledge was acquired during his travels throughout the Internet, although there is never made explicit in history. In the same way, in most cases, Alex meets tourists who speak his own language, and even the person in charge of his home, a latin man, also speaks his same language.
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