Learn the damn language!

[AdvancedFlea]

you had to use a machine translator for this, as evidenced by the translation of "no." as "numéro", which is a machine mistake. Even if your french was poor, no human being would make this mistake.

Well spotted, and there's a reason for that. My spoekn frnech is pretty good but my spelling and grammar in it is awful so I fed the english version of what I said through a translator. since I said the customer "No." The computer took it as "Number" (If I'm flatly refusing somthing to somone I tend to say "No." witht he fullstop, almost as emphasis)

Just because I can't type in frnech, don't assume I can't speak it. 'Specially since you've never met me and never seen/heard me speak french irl :P

anyone who reads my posts properly will know I can't spell in ENGLISH very well, much less in french

[Crab]

I guess I can buy that; it was fairly suspect though.

[AdvancedFlea]

Yup. I'll grant you it was a stupid slip ^^; if there's ever a next time, I'll read it through next time ^_^

[Digitalpotato]

Personally, I would have taken the yelling at. But then, being Jewish myself, I probably have more leeway in calling bullshit on this person, especially if they called me a "Nazi" for not speaking Hebrew.

My only real regret would be that the few words I do know in Hebrew are NOT curse words. 'Cause I don't think cussing this upright fecal stain in Spanish would have quite the same effect.....

I'd rather say some rude stuff in polish to someone. Because not a lotta people out here would know I'm swearing like a Rapper.

[iradney]

Well spotted, and there's a reason for that. My spoekn frnech is pretty good but my spelling and grammar in it is awful so I fed the english version of what I said through a translator. since I said the customer "No." The computer took it as "Number" (If I'm flatly refusing somthing to somone I tend to say "No." witht he fullstop, almost as emphasis)

Just because I can't type in frnech, don't assume I can't speak it. 'Specially since you've never met me and never seen/heard me speak french irl :P

anyone who reads my posts properly will know I can't spell in ENGLISH very well, much less in french

I can totally relate. My second language is Afrikaans, and I can speak it pretty well, but do NOT ask me to write it. Seriously. My brain starts oozing out of my ears and my tenses get wonky

[AdvancedFlea]

odd isn't it? We can speak it but fuck asking us to write in it o.o

[Stid]

odd isn't it? We can speak it but fuck asking us to write in it o.o

I was that way with German.

Now... I can barely remember anything LOL.

/starts to learn Spanish for my best friends wedding (he's from Puerto Rico)

[Andara Bledin]

German is only a problem if your instructor (if you have formal instruction) never got around to telling you how to do it. My German teacher was awesome.

I won't go near French, however.

^-.-^

[AdvancedFlea]

German was a language I could never get my tounge around. To me it was always very jagged and awkward. eventually I just gave up

Funny thing; When I was in high school, I had 2 choices of which language to take dureing my GCSEs.German or french. I can speak french very well, I was atrocious at german. Which one do you think I took "for the challenge" ?

...I was not a smart kid at highschool

[LadyAndreca]

I'm a bit odd with languages. I can read them much easier than I can understand them spoken, and forget trying to speak them! I can read German well enough to get the gist of what I'm reading, if not the nuance, and Spanish well enough to get by when I was living in a mostly-Hispanic neighborhood. German I can understand if someone speaks it slowly so my poor brain has time to translate, and I can speak just enough to sound like I don't really understand it at all (I was taught traveler's German as a 10-year-old). Forget Spanish, it goes by too fast.

I took Arabic briefly. I only learned one word and how to distinguish individual letters before I decided I didn't like the professor...kinda regret that now.

Next on my list to attempt is Gaelic. Hey, I need two language credits to graduate and German interferes with my music clases.

[StarsAreFixed]

Next on my list to attempt is Gaelic. Hey, I need two language credits to graduate and German interferes with my music clases.

I can teach you! I'm fluent. I'm presuming you mean Irish, ie. Gaeilge. First lesson- Gaeilge is the language of Ireland. Gaelic (or Scots Gaelic) is the language of Scotland. They are related Celtic languages and can look similar written down but are fundamentally different as regards accents on letters and grammar. So always distinguish between the two gaeilge is pronounced more er Irishy than gaelic. (Gwail-gah). Go n-eirí an t-adh leat! (Good luck) (Guh neye-ree on taw lath)

[LadyAndreca]

I can teach you! I'm fluent. I'm presuming you mean Irish, ie. Gaeilge. First lesson- Gaeilge is the language of Ireland. Gaelic (or Scots Gaelic) is the language of Scotland. They are related Celtic languages and can look similar written down but are fundamentally different as regards accents on letters and grammar. So always distinguish between the two gaeilge is pronounced more er Irishy than gaelic. (Gwail-gah). Go n-eirí an t-adh leat! (Good luck) (Guh neye-ree on taw lath)

Well, the e-mail came around as 'would any students be interested in a class in Irish Gaelic', so I'm guessing it'll be Gaeilge then. I assume that I'm not the only person taking the class not to have known the distinction. Thanks for the luck!

[StarsAreFixed]

No, few would outside of Ireland. Except Irish first-generation emigrants really! Gaeilge is related to Germanic languages, some of it can be harsh but they don't really sound alike...But there are tough pronunciations, I don't find them so but on British television, they can never get Irish names right whatsoever, so it must be tough. You'll be glad to know there isn't a gender thing like French and most European languages have for nouns and stuff. Plenty of irregualr verbs to be getting along with. The main thing is, the sentence structure is backwards for quite a few things, for example you don't say 'I am hungry', you say 'The hunger is on me- Tá ocras orm- taw UK-ras urm' and for My name is you say 'X is the name of me- X is ainm dom- iss anum dum.' I hope I didn't put you off, it's a beautiful language

[AdvancedFlea]

Thats the funny thing with language though. many people can understand them well enough to get the jist of conversations, but not take part. I can understand a little bit of japanese because of the amount of anime I watch, and I can get the idea of whats going on without looking too hard at the subtitles but theres no way I could talk in japanese.

Oddly enough, even though I don't know how to communicate in it, I can get the idea of whats going on with BSL

[Andara Bledin]

I can understand a little bit of japanese because of the amount of anime I watch, and I can get the idea of whats going on without looking too hard at the subtitles but theres no way I could talk in japanese.

And isn't it jarring when you hear a word you know and realize that the subtitle has changed the translation for some unfathomable reason?

^-.-^