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Keg posted:Actually, I'm happy.
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Al Cowens posted:This would have, potentially, been an OK thread with interesting discussion if someone other than you posted it. I dont know why you're picking on great posters like keg why don't you go fly a kite or something!!
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 02:14 |
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4outof5 posted:I dont know why you're picking on great posters like keg why don't you go fly a kite or something!! NOT.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 02:15 |
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4outof5 posted:NOT. Oh poo poo! A not joke!
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 05:39 |
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I have been learning swedish for a couple years, but whenever i go to sweden, i am too terrified to do anything other than ask a man at a gas station if he has a spoon for my yogurt. And everyone in scandinavia speaks english quite well. Learning languages is difficult if you don't have many people to practice with.
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jeff smisek posted:I have been learning swedish for a couple years, but whenever i go to sweden, i am too terrified to do anything other than ask a man at a gas station if he has a spoon for my yogurt. And everyone in scandinavia speaks english quite well. Learning languages is difficult if you don't have many people to practice with.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 07:31 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:yeah it's hard with languages like that because people tend to appreciate your effort but keep trying to just talk to you in english because it's easier This is pretty much only true in Sweden, where self-loathing has become a religion and people will take any chance they get to speak English for a chance to be complimented on how good their English is. In the rest of Scandinavia, and also the Netherlands, where people also speak great English, people will continue to speak their native language if that is how you attempt to engage them. Also well done picking the gayest of three mutually intelligible languages dumbass
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 08:10 |
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I only speak English but it's all you need across Europe, even if the other person only speaks their native language. All you need to do is speak louder and put on an accent and they understand you fine. For example, in France : EXCUSEZ MISSURE, WHEREZ LE TRAIN STATION SEE VU PLATT... YOU KNOW, *CHOO CHOO*? Works fine for me.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 11:50 |
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Grew up in Ukraine, so fluent in Russian and can understand (but not produce) Ukrainian 100%. Learned English as my third language, confident enough to claim fluency. General professional proficiency in Pashto, can read/write (slowly) and hold a conversation about most topics while looking like an idiot. Three years of Spanish in high school, didn't give a gently caress or actually try to learn anything, so I can understand maybe 40% of what I hear or read, can't produce it too well. I've wanted to learn Arabic (MSA) for a few years now, but too busy with business school.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 12:29 |
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My mother tongue is Polish, but growing up in a different country I ended up learning Dutch and English as well. Now I'm studying Japanese because I am a huge nerd.
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i speak the universal language of music
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 13:24 |
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spud posted:EXCUSEZ MISSURE, WHEREZ LE TRAIN STATION SEE VU PLATT... YOU KNOW, *CHOO CHOO*? Way to show off. This is obviously native-level french dialog.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 14:46 |
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KomodoWagon posted:This is pretty much only true in Sweden, where self-loathing has become a religion and people will take any chance they get to speak English for a chance to be complimented on how good their English is. In the rest of Scandinavia, and also the Netherlands, where people also speak great English, people will continue to speak their native language if that is how you attempt to engage them. It's impossible to learn a Scandinavian language when visiting, but once you move there people will get bored of the novelty of speaking English and will just ignore you and start speaking their native language while you look at everyone with a polite smile assuming that everyone in Scandinavia really likes English people. Then you learn it and realize that everyone loving hates dumbass monolingual British / American retards and just spend their entire time mocking them and calling them faggots in viking.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 14:56 |
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Also the best thing about the scandinavian languages are that there are so many retarded dialects that you don't even need to become 100% fluent because people will just assume that your weird grammatical gently caress-ups and confusing nonsense words are because you're a farmer or a mountain person or something unless you are completely tone deaf and keep your English accent.
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KomodoWagon posted:This is pretty much only true in Sweden, where self-loathing has become a religion and people will take any chance they get to speak English for a chance to be complimented on how good their English is. In the rest of Scandinavia, and also the Netherlands, where people also speak great English, people will continue to speak their native language if that is how you attempt to engage them. Sorry for wanting to talk with my friends.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 15:29 |
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KomodoWagon posted:Also well done picking the gayest of three mutually intelligible languages dumbass
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 16:16 |
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i apparently speak good enough norwegian that norwegian people will carry on entire face-to-face conversations with me without requesting that we speak in english, which is nice
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 16:33 |
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YeahTubaMike posted:i apparently speak good enough norwegian that norwegian people will carry on entire face-to-face conversations with me without requesting that we speak in english, which is nice You know you have a good grasp of a language when you can visit relatives in a rural area and get into an argument with their drunken hick neighbor without missing a beat.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 16:45 |
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For the more languages a man can speak, His talent has but sprung the greater leak; And, of the industry he has spent upon't, Must full as much some other way discount. The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac Do, like their letters, set men's reason back, And turn their wits that strive to understand it (Like those that write the characters) left-handed. Yet he that is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learneder than he that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 17:15 |
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I'm only fluent in English, but I know a very small part of Italian and French. And I know enough Japanese to get the gist of what is being said to me, but I can't articulate a reply, and can't read hiragana or most kanji. I'm also working on trying to learn Japanese and Korean for work, because I'm an accountant and a handful of my clients have foreign income, and W-2 equivalents that are entirely in those languages. Or I have clients that have straight from Korea wives and stuff. So I figure it would be nice if I could speak to them in a language that isn't pretty broken for them. Anyway, that's my story about how I'm gonna learn anime speak for actual real life uses.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 17:46 |
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I can do the whole alphabet on op's mom
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 17:48 |
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Broken english. I learned from road signs and advertisements.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 19:08 |
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I speak English and Bulgarian fluently, although if I'm being honest I can't write Cyrillic very well (can't remember all the letters when I go to write, I can read it though). I also speak some Spanish cuz of HS and living where I do and some German (very very little though, an embarrassingly little amount given that I lived there for a year+). I'd like to get my Spanish and German up to snuff and maybe learn something else too... what is the best way to do that? Was thinking about Rosetta Stone mebbe but I heard that it wasn't all that great really. a hole-y ghost posted:yeah it's hard with languages like that because people tend to appreciate your effort but keep trying to just talk to you in english because it's easier Exactly my experience in Germany. I'd like kinda try and they'd laugh and just switch to English to make it easier which is considerate but at the same time I'm trying to fix my broken Deutsche dammit
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 19:15 |
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Three, only fluent in two. Français ne sont pas utiles.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 19:46 |
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I speak 2-4 languages, I grew up with my family speaking English, but I was in Papua New Guinea so I picked up enough pidgin to get by. I'm an interpreter in Auslan (Australian Sign Language) by trade so I guess that counts. And I'm working on Spanish and am slowly becoming conversational.That is to say I can have a chat with the cleaning lady at work. Sign language is a pretty sweet language to learn. You can talk through windows and underwater. And the Deaf are pretty chill people most of the time. It definitely has some limitations compared to English but the versatility of 3D grammar can be put to great use in some specific situations.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 21:49 |
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English is my 2nd language, my first is actually caveman grunts
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 21:50 |
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Jestery posted:Sign language is a pretty sweet language to learn. You can talk through windows and underwater. And the Deaf are pretty chill people most of the time. It definitely has some limitations compared to English but the versatility of 3D grammar can be put to great use in some specific situations.
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Al Cowens posted:This would have, potentially, been an OK thread with interesting discussion if someone other than you posted it. GBS hates happiness.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 22:29 |
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Keg posted:GBS hates happiness.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 22:31 |
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Mostly we just hate Keg.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 22:48 |
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a hole-y ghost posted:Secret To Communicating With 3D Girls Discovered http://www.auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/hi-1.html http://www.auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/girl-2.html http://www.auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/you-1.html http://www.auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/want-2.html http://www.auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/this-1.html http://www.auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/penis-1.html http://www.auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/ejaculate-1.html Thank me later when you are knee deep in deaf plunge Extra deaf funnies https://youtu.be/BwokgguGuZM
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 23:40 |
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Germstore posted:Mostly we just hate Keg.
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Germstore posted:Mostly we just hate Keg. I speak this language
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 00:15 |
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i speak only one language: the language of love
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 03:03 |
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I speak the only language that matters... American!
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Tuxedo Gin posted:i speak only one language: the language of love so, esperanto
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i wish i never learned whatever language this thread is written in
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