Hi,
speaking of overhearing someone, when they don't realize, YOU understand what they're saying about you.
Had rather a funny experience in Vienna a few years back on holiday.

Mum & I were browsing around a gift shop in Vienna.. I'd spotted a couple of items I was intending on buying including quite an expensive music box. I was happily chatting to mum ( in English) whilst chewing gum
( not very ladylike chewing gum, but so what)
From behind the gift counter we heard one sales lady say to the other (quite sarcastically in German)
wish the cow would stop chewing & buy something.
With that, we walked up to the counter & mum in fluent German, asked the price of a couple of items.
You should have seen their jaws drop, once they'd realzed we'd understood every word they'd said. haahaa
Mum's still got her German accent, I don't have one , because I grew up in Australia speaking English. Even after 50 + years, mum still has an accent.

Alas the sales lady's lost a few hundred dollars in sales.
best wishes
Rikki
[QUOTE]Originally posted by DonM:
[B]I would like to learn Spanish because there will soon be as many Mexicans in the US as there are English. It would be fun to understand what they are saying about us in the Mexican Restaurants.