Question： Did the young man speak English?

Do You Speak English?

                  I had an amusing experience last year.

                 After I had left a small village in the south of France,

                 I drove on to the next town.

                On the way, a young man waved to me.

                 I stopped and he asked me for a lift.

                As soon as he had got into the car,

                I said good morning to him in French and he replied in the same language.

               Apart from a few words,

                I do not know any French at all.

               Neither of us spoke during the journey.

               I had nearly reached the town, when the young man suddenly said, very slowly,

              'Do you speak English?'

              As I soon learnt, he was English himself!