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Laz
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 Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject: Foreign language Threads |
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For those visitors who come to the site and might not have English as their primary language ... I would be glad to include a foreign language thread where you could discuss or post in the language of your choice. It would be fun for us English speakers to meet some new folks and maybe learn a little bit about your language as well.
Anyway ... if any visitors or regulars are interested, please let me know.
Thanks,
Laz
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Nick
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Might leave some of us monolingual posters feeling a bit left out... 
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Laz
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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ha ha ha ... we can't have that can we 
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Janny
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Times like these make me wish I had payed more attention in French class...
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Fripod
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| Janny wrote: | | Times like these make me wish I had payed more attention in French class... |
Hey, isn't French also really similar to Romainian, they're both romance languages.
I heard that's why with Romania's entry into the EU there have been a lot of migrants from Romania to France.
BTW, it's OK not to speak french if you speak English.
With english you can speak to 80% of Swedes, and 2/3 of Germans also
I suppose English has now taken on the status of a sort of interlingua... or something. Cause' it's like a middle ground for conversation between all sorts of people. I mean, A Polish person can go to Spain or Latin America, and find someone to speak English to no problem, but they'd certainly have a hard time finding other Polish speakers.
Useful huh. |
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Janny
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Yep, it's pretty close to Romanian, and I actually speak French, but I'm really rusty and tend to shy away from holding a real conversation in French. Truth be told, I kinda hate the language, but it's useful to know more than one.
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Laz
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I took French in HS and college ... I can read and write it better than I can speak it or hold a conversation
Should we all learn Esperanto or some common language ?
Laz
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Phantast
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I live in the U.S.A. so I've never really seen the need to learn anything other than English. I am trying to learn Japanese, though.
I don't think I could handle learning a language without knowing someone that actually spoke that language.
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