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My dog understands what I'm saying, well most of the time. Does that count?

I'm trying to improve my English here on this fine forum but it's harder to write in a foreign language than to speak.

I find it easier to read Spanish than it is to listen to people speak it. The only benefit of writing is you can pause and think about it a little. Speaking is real time, and easy for me to screw up... but when speaking, it seems people usually are a little more understanding

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English and Chinese. And I can read Latin and a little ancient Greek.

Is dumbass a language? You sure got that one down pat in order to respond to some of the posts in SOCN.

 

Holy hell dude, was that really necessary?

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English and Chinese. And I can read Latin and a little ancient Greek.

Is dumbass a language? You sure got that one down pat in order to respond to some of the posts in SOCN.

 

Holy hell dude, was that really necessary?

Yes, LED and I goof around like that

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English and Chinese. And I can read Latin and a little ancient Greek.

Is dumbass a language? You sure got that one down pat in order to respond to some of the posts in SOCN.

 

Holy hell dude, was that really necessary?

Yes, LED and I goof around like that

 

I gotta say, I took that as a compliment :D

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English and Chinese. And I can read Latin and a little ancient Greek.

Is dumbass a language? You sure got that one down pat in order to respond to some of the posts in SOCN.

 

Holy hell dude, was that really necessary?

Yes, LED and I goof around like that

 

I gotta say, I took that as a compliment :D

:LOL: Well, you deal with me enough so you get plenty of practice!
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English and Chinese. And I can read Latin and a little ancient Greek.

Is dumbass a language? You sure got that one down pat in order to respond to some of the posts in SOCN.

 

Holy hell dude, was that really necessary?

Yes, LED and I goof around like that

 

I gotta say, I took that as a compliment :D

:LOL: Well, you deal with me enough so you get plenty of practice!

 

I couldn't correctly name the songs/lyrics to which you refer in the picture game threads on RTB if I wasn't conversant in dumbass.

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You had me worried :LOL:

Picking on the SOCN newbie? :LOL:

 

His favorite album is Counterparts, and his least favorite is Caress of Steel. BowlCity is definitely fluent in dumbass.

 

Hi-oooooooooooooh!!!!

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You had me worried :LOL:

Picking on the SOCN newbie? :LOL:

 

His favorite album is Counterparts, and his least favorite is Caress of Steel. BowlCity is definitely fluent in dumbass.

 

Hi-oooooooooooooh!!!!

I see you have learned how to talk out of your ass too...
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The problem with learning a second language is that it's a huge test to your ego: you speak poorly, make silly mistakes and are mocked by native speakers for a long time until you've learned a language properly.

 

And usually the way you learn it isn't the way the natives speak it.

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You had me worried :LOL:

Picking on the SOCN newbie? :LOL:

 

His favorite album is Counterparts, and his least favorite is Caress of Steel. BowlCity is definitely fluent in dumbass.

 

Hi-oooooooooooooh!!!!

I see you have learned how to talk out of your ass too...

 

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Have to share this story...

 

I was in Boston on a dinner cruise. Our waitress was a beautiful African-American gal. This is how she introduced herself to us:

"Hello, my name is Chandra, I am fluent in the Queen's English, and also... if need be... Ebonics."

 

She was a whole lot of fun the entire night.

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You had me worried :LOL:

Picking on the SOCN newbie? :LOL:

 

His favorite album is Counterparts, and his least favorite is Caress of Steel. BowlCity is definitely fluent in dumbass.

 

Hi-oooooooooooooh!!!!

 

Sir, you're incorrect. I like Caress of Steel more than the debut and everything from '87-'91.

 

FK U

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You had me worried :LOL:

Picking on the SOCN newbie? :LOL:

 

His favorite album is Counterparts, and his least favorite is Caress of Steel. BowlCity is definitely fluent in dumbass.

 

Hi-oooooooooooooh!!!!

 

Sir, you're incorrect. I like Caress of Steel more than the debut and everything from '87-'91.

 

FK U

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My dog understands what I'm saying, well most of the time. Does that count?

I'm trying to improve my English here on this fine forum but it's harder to write in a foreign language than to speak.

Were you kidding? Or is English not your fluent language?

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I've been obsessed with languages since I was little, and I earn my keep through them. Besides doing some Czech-English and Slovak-English translation, I'm a private, online teacher for the most part.

 

For example, here are this afternoon's classes:

 

1. Advanced conversational French

2. Latin IV (reading Virgil's Aeneid)

3. Conversational Modern Greek

4. Latin II (reading Caesar's De Bello Gallico)

 

 

I teach other languages, and read novels in others for my personal enjoyment. I've been writing an intermediate Irish Gaelic reader for some time now, but I have no clue how or if I'll be able to publish it.

 

I'm not well-rounded; my skills are intensely focused in this single area. Ask me to produce something in the kitchen besides a bowl of cereal? Deer in the headlights. Ask me to work a hammer or a screwdriver? Clueless.

Ahhhh A Slavic Language, that's my area of expertise. That and Romance languages, I never bothered learning Latin or Greek. I've been reading David Copperfield in Polski and I'll say it's been a slow experience haha.

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My dog understands what I'm saying, well most of the time. Does that count?

I'm trying to improve my English here on this fine forum but it's harder to write in a foreign language than to speak.

Were you kidding? Or is English not your fluent language?

I believe his native language is German

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My dog understands what I'm saying, well most of the time. Does that count?

I'm trying to improve my English here on this fine forum but it's harder to write in a foreign language than to speak.

Were you kidding? Or is English not your fluent language?

I'm German therefore it's more difficult for me to post on a forum like this. Sometimes I can't find the right words to express my feelings about a term.

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My dog understands what I'm saying, well most of the time. Does that count?

I'm trying to improve my English here on this fine forum but it's harder to write in a foreign language than to speak.

Were you kidding? Or is English not your fluent language?

I'm German therefore it's more difficult for me to post on a forum like this. Sometimes I can't find the right words to express my feelings about a term.

I have spoken English my whole life and still have that issue :)

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My dog understands what I'm saying, well most of the time. Does that count?

I'm trying to improve my English here on this fine forum but it's harder to write in a foreign language than to speak.

Were you kidding? Or is English not your fluent language?

I'm German therefore it's more difficult for me to post on a forum like this. Sometimes I can't find the right words to express my feelings about a term.

I have spoken English my whole life and still have that issue :)

I usually have no problem finding the words but spelling them is another story.... :smash: :)
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My dog understands what I'm saying, well most of the time. Does that count?

I'm trying to improve my English here on this fine forum but it's harder to write in a foreign language than to speak.

Were you kidding? Or is English not your fluent language?

I'm German therefore it's more difficult for me to post on a forum like this. Sometimes I can't find the right words to express my feelings about a term.

welcher Teil von Deutschland? Ich kann Ihnen mit Ihrem Englisch zu helfen! Ich bin immer noch Deutsch zu lernen.

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