I am praising you hence the "clever of you"
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What Languages Do You Know?
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I am praising you hence the "clever of you"
Heyo
Veteran Member
I have found that people from a country that sees itself as "great" are less likely to speak multiple languages whereas people from "small" countries are often trilingual. Dutch and Danish people at least understand English and German additional to their native language, most speak them well. The French speak either English or German (but don't you dare to assume they do when visiting France, at least try your French first). Brits and US Americans are unlikely to speak anything else but their local language (which often isn't recognizable as English).
Even cleverer than i suspected
I thought it was sarcasm.
Now knowing that you highly
respect me, I beam with pride.
exchemist
Veteran Member
I have some rather poor, not fluent, French as well as English, which is my mother tongue. I can also remember a bit of Latin. But I've forgotten the bits of Gulf Arabic I used to know, I'm afraid. That's the trouble with languages: if you don't use them they evaporate.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Languages are my blind spot; despite trying I am hopeless at them.
I failed French O Level; I gave Latin up after a couple of years - although that did help my understanding of English.
My inability at French is best illustrated when I was trying to get 'Cash back' at a French supermarket. Cash back is common in UK, you buy your food and then say "Can you give me £20 cash-back too" and your bill is increased by £20 and you come out with that amount in notes.
I assumed that it happened in France, so I says the best I could muster in pigeon-French, "L'argent returnee". I was nearly arrested as they thought I was holding them up. Luckily there was an ex-pat in the queue behind me who sorted it and pointed me to the cash machines
I failed French O Level; I gave Latin up after a couple of years - although that did help my understanding of English.
My inability at French is best illustrated when I was trying to get 'Cash back' at a French supermarket. Cash back is common in UK, you buy your food and then say "Can you give me £20 cash-back too" and your bill is increased by £20 and you come out with that amount in notes.
I assumed that it happened in France, so I says the best I could muster in pigeon-French, "L'argent returnee". I was nearly arrested as they thought I was holding them up. Luckily there was an ex-pat in the queue behind me who sorted it and pointed me to the cash machines
Sarcasm on RF?
It's here.
Even I used it once.
Some supermarkets did a trial run of cashback. It wasn't a success so was dropped after a few months.
Only once? Now I'm confused
I've lost all hope
That sounds sarcastic!
RAYYAN
Proud Muslim
Arabic, English, Filipino, Amharic
Heyo
Veteran Member
Languages were my blind spot in school. I did bad in German and English and horrible in French. I only learned to appreciate natural languages after learning formal languages (programming). (And spell checkers help a lot.)
Heyo
Veteran Member
Interesting. How did you come to learn that?
And they're in different time zones!
RAYYAN
Proud Muslim
I was born in Ethiopia and lived there until I was about 4