What English do you read, write, speak?

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 13 Nov 2018, 3:43pm

The EU wants people to be trilingual, fluent in two foreign languages, +1

Is that realistic? Does a standard brain have room for three languages?

fixerupper · Post by **fixerupper** » 13 Nov 2018, 6:03pm

I speak english, and can get by in Greek ..I can discuss with my neighbours things like when they are going to pick their grapes and make wine , how many kilos of olives they harvested this year , and how many glasses of Raki they drank last night ...but sadly I cannot discuss Art , Music , or Politics ....

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 13 Nov 2018, 6:20pm

fixerupper wrote:I speak english, and can get by in Greek ..I can discuss with my neighbours things like when they are going to pick their grapes and make wine , how many kilos of olives they harvested this year , and how many glasses of Raki they drank last night ...but sadly I cannot discuss Art , Music , or Politics ....

Not yet

Was Greek very hard to learn with a different alphabet, can you read it, can you talk about the weather?

Might be best not to talk about politics even if one can :wink:

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 5 Dec 2018, 9:47pm

Could be bad news for those living abroad, as one gets older the things (second language!) learnt later might be forgotten first, things learnt as a child remain

Oldjohnw · Post by **Oldjohnw** » 6 Dec 2018, 1:18am

At the time of the second Gulf war, George W Bush had little time for the French because they did not support him.

He said, "The French don't even have a word for 'entrepreneur'."

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 6 Dec 2018, 6:02am

Oldjohnw wrote:At the time of the second Gulf war, George W Bush had little time for the French because they did not support him.

He said, "The French don't even have a word for 'entrepreneur'."

There were plans to offer religious education in Spanish, the Senate argued about whether this were desirable
One senator claimed: 'the bible is in English, if that's good enough for Jesus it is good enough for me'

Oldjohnw · Post by **Oldjohnw** » 6 Dec 2018, 7:39am

There were plans to offer religious education in Spanish, the Senate argued about whether this were desirable
One senator claimed: 'the bible is in English, if that's good enough for Jesus it is good enough for me'

Excellent.

Post by **Vorpal** » 6 Dec 2018, 8:18am

Oldjohnw wrote:At the time of the second Gulf war, George W Bush had little time for the French because they did not support him.

He said, "The French don't even have a word for 'entrepreneur'."

This was widely published, but not true https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/french-lesson/

Post by **Vorpal** » 6 Dec 2018, 8:20am

Cyril Haearn wrote:There were plans to offer religious education in Spanish, the Senate argued about whether this were desirable
One senator claimed: 'the bible is in English, if that's good enough for Jesus it is good enough for me'

Also not true... https://www.politifact.com/texas/statem ... ish-and-n/

Post by **Mick F** » 6 Dec 2018, 8:22am

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. :wink:

Oldjohnw · Post by **Oldjohnw** » 6 Dec 2018, 9:33am

This was widely published, but not true https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/french-lesson/

But, as people who voted to leave the EU said, when confronted with the untruths regarding making our own laws, immigration and so on, "so what if it's not true. It's what I believe."

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 6 Dec 2018, 1:12pm

Anyone know the German for Schadenfreude?
And for Schweinhund?*

* that has a different meaning in German, does not translate simply as pig-dog :wink:

mercalia · Post by **mercalia** » 6 Dec 2018, 1:31pm

what happened to all those commentators who we used to hear on the BBC esp documentaries and news reports ( I was recently looking at the video of a ctc trip to Rugby using a train to get there and back to London - I am sure you know the video I am referring to) and radio with their strange accents - what accent was it and where it come from? Surbiton in London?

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 6 Dec 2018, 9:42pm

mercalia wrote:what happened to all those commentators who we used to hear on the BBC esp documentaries and news reports ( I was recently looking at the video of a ctc trip to Rugby using a train to get there and back to London - I am sure you know the video I am referring to) and radio with their strange accents - what accent was it and where it come from? Surbiton in London?

Rugby people have quite a strong accent, +1 :wink:

fausto copy · Post by **fausto copy** » 6 Dec 2018, 10:59pm

Cyril Haearn wrote:The EU wants people to be trilingual, fluent in two foreign languages, +1

Is that realistic? Does a standard brain have room for three languages?

I've always understood that the Dutch generally speak up to six languages.
Or is that another untruth?

Since retiring I've mostly reverted to just my one: English.

Not having any workmates I seem to have dropped Bad. :lol:

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