Agreed -- my wife moved here from an Asian country in her late 20's (with only classroom English education), and she understands most common (and many not so c

Agreed -- my wife moved here from an Asian country in her late 20's (with only classroom English education), and she understands most common (and many not so common) English idioms. One thing she doesn't get is a lot of american humor -- standup comedy is almost entirely lost on her. But that's not because she doesn't understand the words, but it's the cultural situations that she doesn't get. Oh, and she still doesn't get the American units of measurement -- I've learned to convert from English units to Metric when talking to her because we keep having conversations like: "3/16's of an inch!? That's nonsense, why can't they just say it in mm?"