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#11
RE: mastering foreign languages
October 18, 2024 at 2:05 pm
C++ python?
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 18, 2024 at 4:15 pm
I can plead for my life and ask for directions in Russian.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 18, 2024 at 5:15 pm
English is my first language, I speak Spanish at a basic functional level, I have recently started learning Lithuanian.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 18, 2024 at 5:41 pm
I'm currently on holiday in Tenerife (Spain).  Earlier I went to a restaurant and was served by a very nice waitress who spoke very good English. Turns out she is German. So she is fluent in German, English, and Spanish (that I know of) and she's working as a waitress ! In England (maybe in USA as well) fluency in 3 languages would mark her out as highly educated and intellectual. In mainland Europe it is nothing special. Sadly I am English so, like most English  people I speak no other language beyond "tourist" French and Spanish.
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#15
RE: mastering foreign languages
October 18, 2024 at 6:06 pm
(October 18, 2024 at 12:51 pm)europeanatheist Wrote: pig latin? What that stands for?
P.S. does anybody of you was able to follow the romans in The passion of Mel Gibson?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 18, 2024 at 7:15 pm
I'm Australian.

These strange foreign devils around me say I'm barely proficient in English.

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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 18, 2024 at 10:39 pm
To this forum Polish would be foreign language so I can say that I'm able to use one. Otherwise it's still one - just swap Polish for English.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 18, 2024 at 11:34 pm (This post was last modified: October 18, 2024 at 11:35 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 18, 2024 at 10:39 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: To this forum Polish would be foreign language so I can say that I'm able to use one. Otherwise it's still one - just swap Polish for English.

You write very straightforward English, Comrade Cat. Are you typing English right onto the keys, or do you use a translator?

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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 19, 2024 at 12:42 am
(October 18, 2024 at 11:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(October 18, 2024 at 10:39 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: To this forum Polish would be foreign language so I can say that I'm able to use one. Otherwise it's still one - just swap Polish for English.

You write very straightforward English, Comrade Cat. Are you typing English right onto the keys, or do you use a translator?

I don't use a translator. It's too finicky and while my English might not be the best it is understandable I think.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 19, 2024 at 12:51 am
(October 19, 2024 at 12:42 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote:
(October 18, 2024 at 11:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You write very straightforward English, Comrade Cat. Are you typing English right onto the keys, or do you use a translator?

I don't use a translator. It's too finicky and while my English might not be the best it is understandable I think.

That's really impressive.

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