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You're welcome :flipoff2:
 
grumpy356 said:
And also Japanese interest me, but learning is kind of a pointless exercise in learning it.
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Funny you mention Japanese. When I was 8- 12 years old, I lived in Japan. The (English school) I went to required us to take Japanese. I hated it. By the time I moved back to the US, I could get by pretty good. My parents were blown away the first time I talked to a Japanese train conductor. None of my brothers or sister ever learned shit. I can only think of a few words today. One time I was watching a movie with people talking Japanese and it would come back to me as they spoke. Weird.

I should have kept with it because American companies like to hire people to negotiate with Japanese companies in their own language.

Side note, I had a friend that spoke 5-6 languages. He was very unique because he knew technical words in those languages. He made a real good living translating manuals for companies.


I know, I can’t talk English now. In reality, I can talk good, I just can’t spell.
 
English, bad English, Japanese. bad Tagalog, a smattering of Thai.

Spent 8 years living in Japan, did some time in WestPac, Cobra Gold, and some Team Spirit, but the hookers there spoke good enough English that I didn't need to learn Korean.

I am sure there is more that comes out in a drunken haze, but I won't claim them .... ;)
 
I used to be fluent in English but even that's getting rusty now.

Tried learning Spanish in highschool, could never get the grammar right. They say math is a language and I struggle with that too. The passing years & gasoline fume exposure have only made me dumber. No hablo, no parle vue.
 
grumpy356 said:
Do you speak a foreign language.

Do you find it useful?

How did you learn?


I speak some broken Mexican I picked up living on the South Side of Houston, but not enough to understand native speakers at native speed.

I’d kinda like to learn enough to run a good job site in Texas.

And also Japanese interest me, but learning is kind of a pointless exercise in learning it.
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I do.

English is a foreign language :flipoff2:
 
Korean, Japanese, Italian (my first language), English and Farsi.

At least, I used to. I do try to remember and practice. Usually takes me about 3 weeks back in country to be fluent.
 
Grendel said:
Korean, Japanese, Italian (my first language), English and Farsi.

At least, I used to. I do try to remember and practice. Usually takes me about 3 weeks back in country to be fluent.
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Super impressive.

I know quite a bit of German, a bit of Spanish just by osmosis. If I tried I could probably pick up Spanish extremely quickly based just on the sentence structure. The way German often puts a necessary verb at the end of a sentence has made it quite challenging to learn. But I've been learning it incorrectly I think- trying to translate as I go along vs. just learning it and thinking in that language.

Das Baby kann ohne Milche huete Nacht nicht schlafen
The Baby can without milk today night not sleep. (translated)
The baby can't sleep tonight without milk (interpreted)

I think I can also definitely say that the English article "THE" is the end-all, be-all champion of articles, and der/die/das/dem/den/la/el/las/etc. are all incredibly dumb. As a Californian I object to gendered language so I'm using that as an excuse to never learn the articles correctly. :dustin:
 
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