#75

Native English speaker. Speak decent conversational German but would find it very difficult to work in it and can get by in French. Studied Russian in first year at Uni and remember almost none of the language so I can tell you what something written in Cyrillic says but have no idea what it means.

#77

My French is better than I think but it’s still pretty basic. My accent is good enough that they speak back to me in French, which is nice (until I stop being able to understand).

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#79

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Y’all can probably guess what this Berlin Transport ad is saying about the UK

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#80

I lived in Tokyo for two years so my Japanese…isn’t terrible. Could fend for myself happily in shops, restaurants, taxis etc, but needed an interpreter for business meetings. Hiragana and katakana are pretty easy but kanji really aren’t. I would like to have kept it up back in the UK, but the only courses I’ve found in Bristol are really inconvenient in terms of time and location. I’m also learning Welsh via Duolingo on my phone, so I would like to add ‘smwddio’ to the list of great Welsh words. It’s pronounced “smooth-io” and means “doing the ironing”.

I also have a degree in Latin and Ancient Greek. This is why I have spent most of my adult life working in record shops.

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#81

Sick burn about the Dutch and their love of caravans.

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#82

But verbs of killing and millions of participles that bear no relation whatsoever to the main verb are really useful, right?

#83

yes and no

#84

Something about voting not to pay for services British people don’t use at all?

#85

pretty much, yeah

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#86

“We first of all need to have a vote as to whether us Brits need public transport anyway”

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#87

it’s true, when I was in the highlands earlier this year it was mostly just Dutch (and German, tbf) caravans and/or motorbikes

#88

Wait until you’re in that hostage situation and they’re quizzing you about Attic verb tenses and a wrong answer means death for your three children.

#89

My family used to have a caravan and go to French campsites. Pretty much all Dutch people there too. Often brought their own cheese with them, just in case.

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#90

I speak Spanish, kind of. I’ve been learning Swedish for a while as an exercise in improving my Spanish, bizarrely. It seems to work. I don’t know if learning something totally different like that unlocks something in your brain but whenever I go back to Spanish after having reached a plateau it seems to get a bit easier. Love Swedish though, as pointless as it is.

Started to learn Japanese about 10 years ago for all of 3 months. Would like to get into that again one day.

#91

btw does anyone hear who speaks japanese fancy a little bit of adhoc translation work? would probably just be an hour here and there but i’d happily pay an hourly rate or something?

#92

does anyone “hear” fancy teaching me how to speak english

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#93

If you like I can post something on the FB group for graduates of my translation course, DM me the details if so

#94

Which Final Fantasy ROM is it for?

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#95

FFIV, i just don’t think the localisation team really captured the ninja prince of eblan’s energy properly

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