Babel

[Ma_Baker]

Hi all,

The regulars here know I like languages. I only speak four and can read and write three.

BUT this guy has beaten me by a thousand years, and capability.







Luv and kisses

[trash]

I'm really bad at several languages. I make it a point to be able to insult anybody in their own language.

I can read and write Russian ok, and when I was working in China I probably knew about 200 chinese characters. Enough read most street signs, but not read a menu.
Each language I know tends to center on what I do in each country. So Russian is mostly directions and getting places. Chinese it's based on Shopping. My Thai focuses on food.
For reason my My Bhassa and Tetum focuses on Road kill.
I blur what I know of Latin, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. These are all the same language to me, I just have to mangle a word pronunciation enough to be understood.
French.... I have no explanation why I find this language so hard. Even the French insist that I do not try to speak it that I m that bad. It's like I'm the English police man from "Hallo Hallo". 'Goood Moaning!"


The guy in the video is a lot like the Thai stall holders in Thailand. Those buggers speak multiple languages all self taught without even going to the countries.
I find it easier if I'm in the country and forced to speak the local language, I can pick it up quickly.

The Thai's are so good at their jobs that they can pick you out from the crowd and speak your language without you saying anything.
I've tried to trick them so many times and every time their first guess is "G'day mate! How you going?"
"How the fvck did you pick me as Australia, even amongst a group of Russian and Germans.

I'll sometimes mess with them. They'll say "Hello mate!" and I'll respond in Russian. But their Russian is better than mine and it is only a matter of a minute or two before they trip me up.
I've also tried switching to German (which I'm also not good at) to try throw them off but there isn't any fooling them.

[lsemmens]

I speak two languages fluently.

Good and Bad.

[gordon_s1942]

I cant speak or read other than English but I watch 'Foreign Movies' with the sound up to hear the words being spoken as they along with any sub titles gives me an understanding of whats going on.
However 'Chinese Opera' is way out of my comfort zone

[Ma_Baker]

I cant speak or read other than English but I watch 'Foreign Movies' with the sound up to hear the words being spoken as they along with any sub titles gives me an understanding of whats going on.
However 'Chinese Opera' is way out of my comfort zone

Gordon,

It's hard for me to do the Gorbals accent but here goes something I remember of Scotland.

"Hey Jimmy, you need to get your heed felt, with a fvcking claw hammer" . Imagine not appreciating Chinese Opera !!!!

Is Kabuki to hard as well ??

Luv as always

[Uncle Fester]

I only know BASIC and I excel in Dyslexia.
English and German about equally bad.
Some Spanish from holidays.
Everything food and (lack of)money related in Tagalog.

[allover]

When working on a rig in Scotland I was one of the original Billy Connelly fans, had to have a Scottish translator to interpret what he was saying. This was before he could speak English propper

[mi_tasol]

I speak English and can get my face slapped in about 6 or 7 other languages.