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nthing for “languages required in high school” I took 4 years of German, visited the country twice. haven’t spoken it since and basically only remember a few phrases. I wish I took Spanish instead, it’d be infinitely more useful. fun tidbit. my German teacher taught us a northern dialect and I got a little bit of a ribbing for speaking yokel German. kind of fun
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Eat This Glob posted:i have to go to France for work in june and i sure do wish i spoke some of it lol. i just started doing duolingo for it and hopefully i can at least communicate a bit since ill have to get around without a car. I've done spanish with that app for a few years so at least i can infer some stuff based on commonalities shared. otoh, im fat enough to be "visibly american" so im sure they'll understand why im a hapless moron I don't know poo poo about french but Google Translate has a feature that will OCR and translate text in real time which can help you read signs and stuff so gl with that When I was in high school you could do Spanish, French or German and the future chuds all took German because they didn't want to do a "beaner" language. I took 2 years of spanish and am competent enough to shop at a Cardenas market and pretty much understand what I'm buying
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Elephant Ambush posted:Toxic masculinity is everywhere Southern European and Southern European derived cultures are all about that machismo. Granted the flip side of this is the women are also macho which can and does lend itself to some tough rear end feminism.
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MunchE posted:I don't know poo poo about french but Google Translate has a feature that will OCR and translate text in real time which can help you read signs and stuff so gl with that France is super easy to navigate around knowing almost zero French as long as you are patient, polite, and able to google decently well. I was supposed to be on a high speed train from Geneva to Paris where the French strike cancelled the train and managed to take a regional train into France, take a bus to Lyon, and then take a train from Lyon to Paris (username has nothing to do with the city in France). Google translate is pretty legit as well. Just download the full dictionary.
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MunchE posted:I don't know poo poo about french but Google Translate has a feature that will OCR and translate text in real time which can help you read signs and stuff so gl with that lmao technology didnt even cross my mind. good call. i have a very pricey piece of tech I'm tethered to all day. I should probably use the thing for more than the awful app, podcasts, and occasionally directions.
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Thanks for informing me that Duolinguo exists. I'm leveling up my Japanese during lunch and I will also use it to boost my Spanish which I've been lazy about.
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euphronius posted:the Amish do not speak Dutch. In fact the Dutch barely speak Dutch and the olds hate it.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Thanks for informing me that Duolinguo exists. I'm leveling up my Japanese during lunch and I will also use it to boost my Spanish which I've been lazy about.  
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Elephant Ambush posted:Thanks for informing me that Duolinguo exists. I'm leveling up my Japanese during lunch and I will also use it to boost my Spanish which I've been lazy about. It is great. The mobile app has tacked on a bunch of click through ad poo poo, but the quality is really good for a free (well, you know) product. after 800-straight days of doing spanish lessons i was comfortable reading the local spanish weekly newspapers and could glean the meaning of the story if not the exact translation. i took no secondary language at school because it wasn't required and I'm sure I had some chud tendencies about pressing 1 for english or some dumb poo poo unfortunately the app has made me a decent Spanish reader and not particularly adept as a spanish communicator, though I'm sure if a native speaker spoke to me like I was 3 years old I could follow along ok
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fits my needs posted:too many trump threads when he sits around the forums he sits around the forums
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I'm trying to find the one where it sounds like they're going to kill the cartoon owl if you skip your lessons
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I've been slacking on my Italian lessons; am I going to get kidnapped by Communists?
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Halloween Jack posted:I've been slacking on my Italian lessons; am I going to get kidnapped by Communists? Some fat guido is going to come by "I heard you've been missing out on some lessons. Let me tell you a couple of tree tings..."
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Eat This Glob posted:unfortunately the app has made me a decent Spanish reader and not particularly adept as a spanish communicator, though I'm sure if a native speaker spoke to me like I was 3 years old I could follow along ok Do you speak every single Spanish word out loud? That's what I do and I went from 0 to passable in basic conversation in a couple months
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Eat This Glob posted:unfortunately the app has made me a decent Spanish reader and not particularly adept as a spanish communicator, though I'm sure if a native speaker spoke to me like I was 3 years old I could follow along ok My experience has been uniform that in other countries Spanish speakers love that you are trying and do not care about your atrocious accent or terrible conjugation, or hacked together grammar.
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Duscat posted:this belongs here i think Yes it does. Yes it does...
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I had a buddy go to Germany a few years back and he said he couldn't practice his German because so many Germans instead used him to practice their English
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Epic High Five posted:I had a buddy go to Germany a few years back and he said he couldn't practice his German because so many Germans instead used him to practice their English this was true in my experience especially in Munich where they speak perfect English rural areas not so much
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Epic High Five posted:I had a buddy go to Germany a few years back and he said he couldn't practice his German because so many Germans instead used him to practice their English He can speak his German and they can speak their English. It's not that hard. Yes you don't get any experience listening and translating out of, but you still get experience translating into.
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Epic High Five posted:I had a buddy go to Germany a few years back and he said he couldn't practice his German because so many Germans instead used him to practice their English Yeah, I told my friend I was going to be studying French and German in preparation for a trip to Europe in 2021 and she just went "lmao everyone speaks english."
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah, I told my friend I was going to be studying French and German in preparation for a trip to Europe in 2021 and she just went "lmao everyone speaks english." it’s true but do it anyway.
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah, I told my friend I was going to be studying French and German in preparation for a trip to Europe in 2021 and she just went "lmao everyone speaks english." Denmark is the worst/best for this; they all grow up watching stray BBC broadcasts and most of the signage and businesses have everything listed in English instead of Danish. I knew a guy who got a job there and was worried about not speaking Danish and after he went he never once encountered an instance where he needed to know Danish or have something translated.
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Militant Lesbian posted:Denmark is the worst/best for this; they all grow up watching stray BBC broadcasts and most of the signage and businesses have everything listed in English instead of Danish. I knew a guy who got a job there and was worried about not speaking Danish and after he went he never once encountered an instance where he needed to know Danish or have something translated. Yeah and that's probably a good thing cause Danish is a weird languange.
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NYT has a piece up on Wisconsin's collapsing dairy industryquote:Wisconsin is known as “America’s Dairyland,” but the milk makers who gave the state its moniker are vanishing, falling prey to a variety of impediments, including President Trump and his global trade war. Over the past two years, nearly 1,200 of the state’s dairy farms have stopped milking cows and so far this year, another 212 have disappeared, with many shifting production to beef or vegetables.  Poovey FarmsAlas, funwrecker Kevin Drum digs through the numbers and shows that Wisconsin's dairy problems are probably not Trump's fault (they're actually California's, for some reason).
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Parity warning posted:Do you speak every single Spanish word out loud? That's what I do and I went from 0 to passable in basic conversation in a couple months that's probably the way to do it, but unless I'm trying to keep a streak alive on the weekend, I'm doing that poo poo at work. i can get away with nearly anything but muttering to myself in Spanish in a cube farm might get some strange looks from my boss who sits adjacent to me pseudanonymous posted:My experience has been uniform that in other countries Spanish speakers love that you are trying and do not care about your atrocious accent or terrible conjugation, or hacked together grammar. i havent been to a spanish speaking country since I took up the language as a hobby  . I should remedy that.lol I just remembered back in 2007 my then girlfriend made me order food in Puerto rico because she was afraid she'd embarrass herself despite taking Spanish for 6 goddamn years. i dont know how badly I hacked it together, but I did get my dos " dos hugo day naran-ha y dos juevos free-toes y tostones" when my buddy invited me to join him in mexico after his girlfriend broke up with him, i at least gave it a shot and i got to be pals with a petty weed dealer from paraguay who was also there on vacation  he was cool and when i said i wanted to go out and see some of real cancun, he brought me to Hooters. That wasn't cool, but i got to learn the joy of michiladas when i asked what kind of weird beer they were drinking in Spanish and the bartender served me up a glass of spicy cerveza
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i read somewhere that the dairy industry is having to push cheese sales extra hard because thanks to fallen demand in whole milk they're left with an enormous surplus of milk fat they need to do something with
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FMguru posted:(they're actually California's, for some reason). happy cows, dog
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i read somewhere that the dairy industry is having to push cheese sales extra hard because thanks to fallen demand in whole milk they're left with an enormous surplus of milk fat they need to do something with Just get the Amish to churn faster, dammit!
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chitoryu12 posted:Just get the Amish to churn faster, dammit!  That's right, doll face...churn that butter for me.
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You guys need to start watching telenovelas and repeating the things they say as practice I'm not kidding
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Eat This Glob posted:that's probably the way to do it, but unless I'm trying to keep a streak alive on the weekend, I'm doing that poo poo at work. i can get away with nearly anything but muttering to myself in Spanish in a cube farm might get some strange looks from my boss who sits adjacent to me I hear you, I'm too self conscious to do it even in an empty classroom with the door closed because it echoes so much I feel like people in the hall would still hear me saying random spanish words and phrases. If you can manage to do it more privately though it really is the way to go
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Get on my level; I've been practicing my Italian by watching Salo.
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Raptor1033 posted:fun tidbit. my German teacher taught us a northern dialect and I got a little bit of a ribbing for speaking yokel German. kind of fun This works the other way too. Everyone has probably at least heard (on TV if nothing else) black Africans speaking English with a British accent, but one of the fun things about SE Asia is you'll occasionally run into local people who learned their English from an Australian and they have that Digeri Dingo accent. E: my afrikaans godmother once complained to me about her grandchildren's English developing an American accent because they were learning it from Dora the Explorer, she asked them to say giraffe in English and they sounded like little Americans it was pretty cute VitalSigns has issued a correction as of 21:25 on Apr 29, 2019 |
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ElGroucho posted:You guys need to start watching telenovelas and repeating the things they say as practice To make this even easier, there's a Chrome extension that will recommend foreign language movies on Netflix and automatically pause them after every change in the captions so you can repeat the phrases you see. no I will not be giving the name of the extension because I forgot it
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