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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 19, 2024 at 1:20 am
(October 19, 2024 at 12:51 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (October 19, 2024 at 12:42 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: 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.
Thanks. I'm however not so sure about it being impressive. To me my language skills are middling.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 19, 2024 at 1:21 am
I'm pretty sure my english is both bad, and barely understandable.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 19, 2024 at 1:51 am
(October 19, 2024 at 1:21 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I'm pretty sure my english is both bad, and barely understandable.
I beg to differ.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 19, 2024 at 3:22 am
(October 18, 2024 at 11:11 am)europeanatheist Wrote: Hi all
how many foreign languages can you use?
I see sometime that in the anglosaxon world it is not too common to speak more than 1-2 languages, whereas from not anglosaxon especially living in the EU where you work here and there in the end we end up speaking more than 1-2
I speak fluently Spanish, English, Italian, German and I can use some Dutch, French and Portuguese. I also can read and hear some Latin but since we learnt it as a "dead language" I cannot really talk it.
My wife the same as me and at home we use a kind of funny pidgin language borrowing words and expression from the different ones we know
I'm a native speaker of English, and fluent in Japanese.
In France or Italy people laugh when I speak their languages, but they mostly understand.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 19, 2024 at 3:54 am
I also speak gibberish!
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 20, 2024 at 9:22 am
(October 19, 2024 at 3:54 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I also speak gibberish!
double dutch is also useful, especially in business field
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 20, 2024 at 9:27 am
(October 19, 2024 at 1:21 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I'm pretty sure my english is both bad, and barely understandable.
Your English is fine. It's how you type-construct your thoughts that often confuses me.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 20, 2024 at 5:52 pm
(October 20, 2024 at 9:27 am)Silver Wrote: (October 19, 2024 at 1:21 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I'm pretty sure my english is both bad, and barely understandable.
Your English is fine. It's how you type-construct your thoughts that often confuses me.
Nudge has a very angular way of thinking, and I find it hard to follow A-B-C with his posts on occasion. It's not that his English is bad, it's that his writing is sometimes too concise. The goddamned abbreviations drive me batshit at times, lol.
The confusion works for me because it makes me think about what's being said, and so I have to explore the potentials and arrive at my own conclusion about his point -- which he then answers with a reply that is angular, a la breve, and full of abbreviations.
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RE: mastering foreign languages
October 21, 2024 at 11:48 am
(October 19, 2024 at 3:54 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I also speak gibberish!
Authentic frontier gibberish?
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