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Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:01 pm
by Michael Sproul
Lived in Antwerp for 6 months and really tried to learn Dutch, failed miserably! They tried to teach me French at school too, another fail. My mind just doesn't work that way.
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:27 pm
by bobbob
I just about manage spoken English. Hated French at school. I started out in the lower end of the stream in my first year at senior school. End of term exams, 100% in general science, did well in the others so went up to the top streams. Up until then French had been more like geography, learning about farms and thing like that. When I moved up it was very much a foreign language in more ways than one. I did the written paper but I didn't go in for the second part. First and only time I ever bunked off school
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:47 pm
by Chuck
Eager, broad Glaswegian should be a hoot for you :lol: :lol:
Verbs like seeusa, coodyegoa, acoodmurdura will test you....
christel, I think virgin media dialect is common to Islamabad
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:13 pm
by Christel
Chuck wrote:Eager, broad Glaswegian should be a hoot for you :lol: :lol:
Verbs like seeusa, coodyegoa, acoodmurdura will test you....
christel, I think virgin media dialect is common to Islamabad
Oh I struggle with the broad Glaswegian as well, trust me!
In fact if that happens on the phone it gets passed to Ovenpaa :lol:
Virgin Media, I was trying to be political correct
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:39 pm
by ovenpaa
Oddly enough I can read Danish, Norwegian & Swedish fairly well but I make no effort to write the languages, as long as I can get a vague idea of the content beit a newspaper or email I am happy, if it needs more I just ask the Viking..
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:16 pm
by dave_303
I'm fluent in the Wurzel dialect
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:37 am
by Chuck
christel, when PC fails you just let me know..I am good at non PC...allegedly.
Mrs T copes well (too well, now she can understand me too much) with broad Glaswegian and TV shows like Still Game and Chewing the Fat and Mrs Brown she finds hilarious.. She also coped with South York and Geordie accents. Mrs T aka smart ass!
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:48 am
by Michael Sproul
Hahaha! Chewing the fat! Jesus, I remember watching that for the first time at college and just being dumbstruck!
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:45 pm
by M99
Conversational Arabic (although cannot read arabic), German, Welsh, Enough Mandarin to get by, same with Russian and basic English!
Mike
Re: Better kind of multi culti
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:53 pm
by Chuck
Selam, Mike....Impressive range of languages there