The comic books were good because of the illustrations.
I learned common slang that way.
Anyone speak more than one language?
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I learned common slang that way.
Russian, and some German.
Currently just my own private (and free) tutor. Sorry for the double quote.
I speak German badly but I get my point across.
I thought that was a no brainer. I would venture to say that my English is far superior to many that post on this board. 😻
I thought that was a no brainer. I would venture to say that my English is far superior to many that post on this board. 😻
English, Spanish, and enough Latin to be dangerous.
a long time ago my company was partnered with a german company and a marketing exec from munich (or some such significant german city) was in town. i found him next to me at the buffet and i said something to him in german (i’d learned some from tapes) and he looked completely flummoxed. he turned out to be an italian. so he worked for a german firm in germany but spoke zero german. i suppose they must have hired him for his english. csb.
Most Germans, at least anyone younger than 60 speaks decent English. They have 8 years of it in school.
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Jeez, I would hope so.
All kidding aside, I would assume the different dialects could be confusing though. I have a friend from near Stuttgart, he could barely converse with my other friend's grandparents, who were from Ostfriesland.
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Russian and some French for me. Smattering of Spanish, German and Italian…enough to handle all the basics when traveling.
I know enough Portuguese to navigate off the beaten path. My problem is, I need someone that I could communicate with here in Omaha to allow me to get better at it
It took me a few years to find some Brazilians when I moved back to Tallahassee.
But, I’d suggest reading and there are some Brazilian shows you can watch.
I do pretty well reading/understanding Portuguese. My problem in the past has been in conversation and I get stuck on a word or phrase. I also need them to slow down when speaking not like slooooowwww but at least at a normal pace.
Need your wife to verify the authenticity of this statement
Took my family to Germany last year and before we went an American friend that speaks fluent German recommended that we occasionally use an English word in a hard German accent when we struggle the right word. He said it might be pretty close sometimes. We didn’t have the guts to try and use our best effort to speak the language when it was necessary. But we later realized how close the language.
40% of English comes directly from French. The rest is Germanic, but mostly Friesian.
Dutch is also closely related.
If one learns simple verbs, then applies the etymology of the word, an English speaker can get by in German. Most of our German vocabulary are combined words like shoemaker.
Because that’s the construction of the language.
Sorry if that’s too much. Hard to put a whole lesson on this in a short post.
I took four semesters of Swahili in undergrad and the only merits are four As and classes filled with NFL players. It was a helpful cultural experience, but in retrospect I wish I’d continued my K-12 Spanish education.
I did help key members of the ‘08 and ‘09 roster stay eligible, however. Particularly a Doak Walker Award winner.
I did help key members of the ‘08 and ‘09 roster stay eligible, however. Particularly a Doak Walker Award winner.
I don’t understand East Germans at all, their accent is incomprehensible to me. Pretty amazing the variance in such a small country.
She says I should have said VERY badly. 😔
You might be too intelligent to post here.
Fluent English ... und Ich Kann ein bisschen Deutsch.
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My wife is German and she learned German, French, Italian and some Russian growing up. Her dad was a Russian POW for a year or so at the end of WWII and spoke another 5-6 languages as well. Her mother was from France so she had a fair amount of exposure to languages.
She studied English in school ... and then took a refresher course at Northwestern after moving to Chicago. I am not sure where the Italian came from. (Probably the servants were Italian, but that is just a guess.)
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My wife is German and she learned German, French, Italian and some Russian growing up. Her dad was a Russian POW for a year or so at the end of WWII and spoke another 5-6 languages as well. Her mother was from France so she had a fair amount of exposure to languages.
She studied English in school ... and then took a refresher course at Northwestern after moving to Chicago. I am not sure where the Italian came from. (Probably the servants were Italian, but that is just a guess.)
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I took three years of Spanish in high school and college, have managed to retain quite a bit of it. It is serviceable if I am traveling, but I'm not conversational. A buddy of mine from Germany speaks German, English, French, Spanish, Ukranian and Mandarin. Fooking amazing.
Totally fluent in Español, kinda sorta in Portuguese and French. I can follow along if it's spoken slowly enough.
I speak the language of love, along with Wang Chung.
I took three years of high school French and three semesters of college Japanese, so that means I can speak….English. I speak only English.
And because I come from Florida I can fake on my end and actually understand on their end, anyone who can speak Miami Spanglish. Also known as Pitbull Speech.
