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Post by David Schofield on Jul 21, 2023 15:25:15 GMT
20 years in a country, and can only just "get by" with the language. Embarrassing, especially from someone displaying such hypocrisy. I can "get by" most times I go on holiday. True. I could "get by" on my first visit to Germany, as a 13 year old, with six months learning. And with a two year O Level in Russian I was able to send a polite letter to Gorbachev's lot requesting a medal for a family friend who had served on the Baltic convoys when the medals were made available. I'd be embarrassed if I could not speak a lingo semi-fluently after living in a country for a year or two. Blimey. Just read all that thread. Awful awful man. What about Mustaphapoint though..? Clever bugger👏👏👏
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Post by vicar on Jul 21, 2023 16:25:19 GMT
20 years in a country, and can only just "get by" with the language. Embarrassing, especially from someone displaying such hypocrisy. I can "get by" most times I go on holiday. True. I could "get by" on my first visit to Germany, as a 13 year old, with six months learning. And with a two year O Level in Russian I was able to send a polite letter to Gorbachev's lot requesting a medal for a family friend who had served on the Baltic convoys when the medals were made available. I'd be embarrassed if I could not speak a lingo semi-fluently after living in a country for a year or two. I find Spanish really difficult, after 3 months working on a building site in Germany I was okay, never fluent even if some of my mates put it about that I was, this came from doing all the hotel negotiations and buying train tickets etc. on football trips. I've been studying Spanish for a few years now, I do weekly night school classes and duolingo every day and find the more I know the more I realise I don't know, I'm fairly confident now holding a conversation but I know my verb tenses are all over the place. For people like Alicante Hatter it can be really hard because in these communities Spanish is very much a second language, we plan to move back to Spain at some point this year and where our place is we have to speak Spanish but that's not the case in many of these coastal towns.
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Post by malc on Jul 21, 2023 17:13:27 GMT
True. I could "get by" on my first visit to Germany, as a 13 year old, with six months learning. And with a two year O Level in Russian I was able to send a polite letter to Gorbachev's lot requesting a medal for a family friend who had served on the Baltic convoys when the medals were made available. I'd be embarrassed if I could not speak a lingo semi-fluently after living in a country for a year or two. I find Spanish really difficult, after 3 months working on a building site in Germany I was okay, never fluent even if some of my mates put it about that I was, this came from doing all the hotel negotiations and buying train tickets etc. on football trips. I've been studying Spanish for a few years now, I do weekly night school classes and duolingo every day and find the more I know the more I realise I don't know, I'm fairly confident now holding a conversation but I know my verb tenses are all over the place. For people like Alicante Hatter it can be really hard because in these communities Spanish is very much a second language, we plan to move back to Spain at some point this year and where our place is we have to speak Spanish but that's not the case in many of these coastal towns.
The 3 languages I've had a serious go at learning are Norwegian, German and now, like you, tomorrow I'll complete an 800 day streak at Duolingo Spanish. Without any shadow of doubt, Spanish is the hardest because of all the verb tenses. It's a bit half and half between natives and immigrants in my part of Spain and few Spaniards are fluent in English. However, with my Spanish as is and the bit of English most of the younger Spanish speak, I can get by. Like you, the more I know, the less I know but if you know the verb, you're at least half way there. They know that grammatically their language is very hard to learn so they give you far more rope than the French would. Google translate is still a life saver though to me even after living and learning the lingo for the 5 years I've lived here.
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Post by mat1scfc on Jul 21, 2023 17:43:45 GMT
Could we please turn this back into the football league thread.
Last 15 pages or so have just been completely off topic bar about 5 posts
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Jul 21, 2023 17:52:58 GMT
Could we please turn this back into the football league thread. Last 15 pages or so have just been completely off topic bar about 5 posts It’s a conversation
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Post by vicar on Jul 21, 2023 18:13:47 GMT
Could we please turn this back into the football league thread. Last 15 pages or so have just been completely off topic bar about 5 posts It’s a conversation We have wandered off a bit Stranded, having said that he only has to post something FL related and we can get back on topic.
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Post by Nik on Jul 21, 2023 18:18:38 GMT
Could we please turn this back into the football league thread. Last 15 pages or so have just been completely off topic bar about 5 posts Apply for an admin job or leave them to decide.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 21, 2023 18:52:34 GMT
Could we please turn this back into the football league thread. Last 15 pages or so have just been completely off topic bar about 5 posts Apply for an admin job or leave them to decide. It’s all gone to shit since matbot stopped reposting every tweet he read.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Jul 21, 2023 18:59:56 GMT
We have wandered off a bit Stranded, having said that he only has to post something FL related and we can get back on topic. Sure it’s not been “on topic”. But as a discussion it’s been far more interesting to read than endless copy pasted tweets because some team in League One have signed a player none of us have ever heard of.
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Post by atmosphere on Jul 21, 2023 19:14:09 GMT
Matt's right here. The lads doing the debating even shelved it 24 hours ago.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Jul 21, 2023 19:30:10 GMT
Matt's right here. The lads doing the debating even shelved it 24 hours ago. Then he, you, or anybody else bothered by others having a discussion can make posts to get it back on topic. Posting complaining about it just adds to the off topic nature of the thread. Personally I’m not bothered by stuff veering off piste. It’s organic.
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Post by timberwolf on Jul 22, 2023 9:45:45 GMT
We have wandered off a bit Stranded, having said that he only has to post something FL related and we can get back on topic. There is a strong rumour going about that not many hull city fans speak spanish.
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Post by mat1scfc on Jul 24, 2023 20:17:33 GMT
Carlisle have rejected bid worth £250,000 from Blackpool
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Post by Nik on Jul 24, 2023 20:42:30 GMT
Another reason to be glad it wasn't us.
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Post by ldjh79 on Jul 24, 2023 20:56:56 GMT
Another reason to be glad it wasn't us. Do you have to join Twitter to read the replies?
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