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Kennel posted:Watching pro wrestling really helped my English comprehension, so watch Lucha Libre, kids. Hope you guys like the intro riff to Jump! by Van Halen (Unless they aren't using that anymore  )
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Halloween Jack posted:Get on my level; I've been practicing my Italian by watching Salo. Do you know Spanish? If you don't and you learn Italian then you will practically know Spanish. The manager of that pizza place I mentioned before is 100% Italian and didn't even speak English as a child even though he was born here. However, since he was fluent in Italian, he said he was easily able to pick up Spanish because they were so similar. Obviously there are some difference and it was probably a little easier for him since he was constantly around Spanish speaking people in the kitchen, but I always thought it was pretty impressive.
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wizzardstaff posted: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. that's cool as poo poo and i am going to try and find it
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my foreign language story is helping an old chinese lady figure out the bus schedule and route she wanted and showing her to the right stop in downtown kirkland at like 9pm at night one time via google translate ping pong on my phone. i was super racist and used japanese at first like the ignorant american dipshit i am but i did feel ashamed about it 
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Kitfox88 posted:my foreign language story is helping an old chinese lady figure out the bus schedule and route she wanted and showing her to the right stop in downtown kirkland at like 9pm at night one time via google translate ping pong on my phone. i was super racist and used japanese at first like the ignorant american dipshit i am but i did feel ashamed about it I'm not sure that trying to be genuinely helpful and making an honest mistake with no ill intention on your part is a reason to be ashamed. If you are trying to help someone and they don't speak a language you speak and you make a guess about what language they speak based on how they look and you're wrong, that hardly seems like "racism". I mean if that truly is a "racism" then racism is hardly a useful term at all and means something so broad and common as to be worthless. I was in Ecuador and saw a person who appeared caucasian to me, in an English language bookstore, and I spoke them in English before Spanish. They were actually a native Ecuadorean and spoke only Spanish. I feel no shame nor remorse and do not construe this as a "racism".
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Halloween Jack posted:Get on my level; I've been practicing my Italian by watching Salo. I lived in Italy for around five years, learned the language and then scratch my head watching Gomorrah. My Eye-tie friends find it hard to understand the Neapolitan dialects as well.
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In Munich someone once assumed I was Spanish (or Italian) for some reason and spoke to me as such. I also remember at the airport waiting to go to Cyprus from Munich, and the Cypriots were showing up and all greeting each-other even if they didn't know eachother (small place), then I saw this dude basically doing the Key & Peele Obama meet and greet at to me, like where Obama-Peele sees Key and has to be told if he's part black after just sort of freezing. Like I was Mediterranean looking enough to be a Maybe, but pale enough to be a Maybe Not. So the dude was just calculating me up and down whether to come over and go all YASSOU KUMBAREI. Apparently I was too white looking and did not pass the test. Thanks MOM. Grape has issued a correction as of 03:45 on Apr 30, 2019 |
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It's like a pioneer porn shop in here.
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TMMadman posted:Do you know Spanish? If you don't and you learn Italian then you will practically know Spanish. When I was TDY in Italy for Operation bomb the sit out of Kosovo to distract from the president sticking cigars in his intern's vag, we had a Puerto Rican dude who did all our translating for us. He took us all to a really seedy strip club so that was pretty cool when I was 20.
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holy poo poo....nearly $12 billion in THREE MONTHS?  that is definitely some good self-ownage
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Mr Interweb posted:holy poo poo....nearly $12 billion in THREE MONTHS? No, it's annualized. And we don't know if that is 10% or 50% or 1%. It's actually quite a poo poo of an article.
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pseudanonymous posted:No, it's annualized. And we don't know if that is 10% or 50% or 1%. It's actually quite a poo poo of an article.
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Eat This Glob posted:that's cool as poo poo and i am going to try and find it Plz let us know if you manage to wrangle it.
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pseudanonymous posted:No, it's annualized. And we don't know if that is 10% or 50% or 1%. It's actually quite a poo poo of an article. Lol it's apparently 20%
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ikanreed posted:Lol it's apparently 20% lol owned.
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Eat This Glob posted:that's cool as poo poo and i am going to try and find it I went back and looked up the name, it's called Language Learning With Netflix. I haven't actually used it myself but it's a cool concept.
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Samovar posted:Plz let us know if you manage to wrangle it. can do! wizzardstaff posted:I went back and looked up the name, it's called Language Learning With Netflix. wrangled it! thank you, wizardstaff! i forgot to look when i got home last night
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I learned French, Latin and Ancient Greek at school, then never needed to speak any other language except English for the next fifteen years. Eventually I moved to Paris and realised that I couldn't remember poo poo from my old language lessons so I basically had to learn it again. Then I moved to Germany and had no clue how to speak German at all when I arrived. When I moved to Spain, I just pretended that everything was in French and figured it out that way - if I was stuck for a Spanish word, I used the French one and just conjugated it like Spanish and I was usually close enough. Then I moved to Ukraine and had to learn Russian, which was a headfuck and a half. After that I ended up in Slovakia, where I discovered that Slovak is basically Russian with a Latin alphabet. Now I'm in Thailand and having to learn my 6th language in 15 years. Learning Latin and Greek absolutely helped with all of those because (in the UK at least) classical languages are taught mostly as 'this is how languages are constructed', rather than 'here's how to ask directions to the airport in Mediolanum.'
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FAARRRRRM LIVIN IS THE LIFE FOR ME
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at one point i wanted to be a farmer because there was a time where you could get some boss rear end grants from the government and could basically automate almost everything and sit around all day jacking off but lol in 2016 every farmer decided to self own in the voting booth and now our argi is going to be crippled
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Blast of Confetti posted:at one point i wanted to be a farmer because there was a time where you could get some boss rear end grants from the government and could basically automate almost everything and sit around all day jacking off but lol in 2016 every farmer decided to self own in the voting booth and now our argi is going to be crippled Farming is one of those things where there's definitely money to be made in it, but most of the money to be made is being made by huge corporations. Individual farmers are basically just running out the clock, and most of them would be better off, economically speaking, selling the land and investing the proceeds. That being said there are still some supreme grifters making tons of money owning land on which they do not grow alfalfa.
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Shaffness posted:It's like a pioneer porn shop in here. I understand and appreciate this reference.
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pseudanonymous posted:Farming is one of those things where there's definitely money to be made in it, but most of the money to be made is being made by huge corporations. Individual farmers are basically just running out the clock, and most of them would be better off, economically speaking, selling the land and investing the proceeds. That being said there are still some supreme grifters making tons of money owning land on which they do not grow alfalfa. ANF baby MAGA
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Helen Highwater posted:I learned French, Latin and Ancient Greek at school, then never needed to speak any other language except English for the next fifteen years. Eventually I moved to Paris and realised that I couldn't remember poo poo from my old language lessons so I basically had to learn it again. Then I moved to Germany and had no clue how to speak German at all when I arrived. When I moved to Spain, I just pretended that everything was in French and figured it out that way - if I was stuck for a Spanish word, I used the French one and just conjugated it like Spanish and I was usually close enough. Then I moved to Ukraine and had to learn Russian, which was a headfuck and a half. After that I ended up in Slovakia, where I discovered that Slovak is basically Russian with a Latin alphabet. Now I'm in Thailand and having to learn my 6th language in 15 years. Learning Latin and Greek absolutely helped with all of those because (in the UK at least) classical languages are taught mostly as 'this is how languages are constructed', rather than 'here's how to ask directions to the airport in Mediolanum.' So hows life at the cia treating you
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Fumaofthelake posted:I understand and appreciate this reference. *pats and kisses your head then lays a twenty on the pillow next to you*
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Dr.Caligari posted:So hows life at the cia treating you The CIA would put me in language school to learn those languages well before I landed in the relevant country. I had to figure them out myself by speaking like a toddler for a year or so for each.
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Helen Highwater posted:The CIA would put me in language school to learn those languages well before I landed in the relevant country. I had to figure them out myself by speaking like a toddler for a year or so for each. just makes your cover story as a bumbling american more plausible
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I was under the impression that we were all spies and have been using this thread to post mission updates in plain speech code
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Epic High Five posted:I was under the impression that we were all spies and have been using this thread to post mission updates in plain speech code I can't be a spy. It's too hot for trench coats all year here and so even if I could be bothered to wear one I'd stand out too much.
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jobson groeth posted:I can't be a spy. It's too hot for trench coats all year here and so even if I could be bothered to wear one I'd stand out too much. That's exactly what a spy would say
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mesh trench coats are the future
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Epic High Five posted:I was under the impression that we were all spies and have been using this thread to post mission updates in plain speech code Do we TRUCK, or do we gently caress?
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:mesh trench coats are the future Not sure that anyone can pull this look off 
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Zeroisanumber posted:Do we TRUCK, or do we gently caress? The caged whale knows nothing of the mighty deeps
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jobson groeth posted:Not sure that anyone can pull this look off that's just because he doesn't have the matching mesh fedora
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Epic High Five posted:The caged whale knows nothing of the mighty deeps The coop is empty, for the sheep are waking up. *meaningful look, adjusts hat*
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jobson groeth posted:Not sure that anyone can pull this look off this looks like something you'd see in some lovely cyberpunk themed porn
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pseudanonymous posted:Farming is one of those things where there's definitely money to be made in it, but most of the money to be made is being made by huge corporations. Individual farmers are basically just running out the clock, and most of them would be better off, economically speaking, selling the land and investing the proceeds. That being said there are still some supreme grifters making tons of money owning land on which they do not grow alfalfa. this analysis does assume a buy-in into pure capitalism that is actually pretty rare though. got to do something with ones life too.
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