Question: 1.Do they speak English?

               2.Why does the writer not understand the porter?

Do the English Speak English?

I arrived in London at last.

The railway station was big, black and dark.

I did not know the way to my hotel, so I asked a porter.

I not only spoke English very carefully, but very clearly as well.

The porter, however, could not understand me.

I repeated my question several times and at last he understood.

he answered me, but he spoke neither slowly nor clearly.

'I am a foreigner,' I said.

Then he spoke slowly, but I could not understand him.

My teacher never spoke English like that!

The porter and I looked at each other and smiled.

Then he said something and I understood it.

'You'll soon learn English!' he said.

I wonder.

In England, each person speaks a different language.

The English understand each other, but I don't understand them!