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  • How many languages do you know?

    From unixl0rd@700:100/71 to All on Sun Feb 18 06:12:34 2024
    Foreign languages fascinate me. So, far I've managed to learn the following languages: French, English, Spanish.

    I took German classes at University many a moon ago, but I have forgotten most of it.

    Right now, I'm learning Russian, but boy is it hard. It's hands down the most complicated language I've had to learn so far.

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  • From unixl0rd@700:100/71 to unixl0rd on Sun Feb 18 06:13:42 2024
    Erratum: I didn't have to 'learn' French, as it was the language we spoke at home.

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  • From k9zw@700:100/69 to unixl0rd on Sun Feb 18 17:51:18 2024
    Smattering of a couple, but master at perhaps none.

    Schooled in Spanish & German I guess, but didn't stick very well.

    I guess I got around in Germany reasonably well.

    Where I grew up a mixture German/English dialect was common. Locally called "Lakeshore" and not very easy for outsiders. I never really knew that we learned this from young onwards, and never thought a second thought about it.

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  • From unixl0rd@700:100/71 to k9zw on Sun Feb 18 17:57:33 2024
    Where I grew up a mixture German/English dialect was common. Locally called "Lakeshore" and not very easy for outsiders. I never really knew that we learned this from young onwards, and never thought a second thought about it.

    I've never heard about it. Is it spoken in the US or Germany? Fun fact: In Paris, people refused to speak to me in French even though it's my first language. Canadian French does not exactly have a great reputation in Moliere's country.

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  • From k9zw@700:100/69 to unixl0rd on Sun Feb 18 21:27:39 2024
    On 18 Feb 2024, unixl0rd said the following...

    Where I grew up a mixture German/English dialect was common. Locally called "Lakeshore" and not very easy for outsiders. I never really k that we learned this from young onwards, and never thought a second thought about it.

    I've never heard about it. Is it spoken in the US or Germany? Fun fact:
    In Paris, people refused to speak to me in French even though it's my first language. Canadian French does not exactly have a great reputation in Moliere's country.

    West shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. An immigrant mashup dialect.

    What German I did pick up is rural "farmer talk" which marks you as a rube.

    The Spanish we did in school is really Mexican and gets stares in say Barcelona.

    I tried watching some former East German TV movies/shows, and was lost with the vocabulary differences.

    Yet somehow it all works out, eh?

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