tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post5884604408230139534..comments2023-11-05T12:22:53.660+00:00Comments on Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog): Eating eating eating me alive!Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-17573711545166910302010-11-07T09:46:26.995+00:002010-11-07T09:46:26.995+00:00Baino: actually I had a flick through medium wave ...<strong>Baino</strong>: actually I had a flick through medium wave lately. Unlike in the 80s when it was crowded with English with only the odd continental station poking out in between - more than half of it seemed to be in German and Dutch!<br />There are some really good TV catch-up services in German. Unlike British and American ones they don't care what country you happen to view from<br /><br /><strong>Syd</strong>: I'm going to do a course somewhere but really am not sure. It's looking like a degree in Chinese might be funkier ~ with German or French as the language of instruction...<br /><br /><strong>Gattina</strong>: o that must have driven you round the twist!<br />I remember being sat on a Moroccan train for well over seven hours with two young female locals prattling incessantly in some Berber tongue, which sounded like a more alien version of Klingon. Unlike Euro-speak, not a single word broke through, explaining context or what juicy gossip might have been making the exchange.<br />Seven hours of this and I was practically suicidal!<br />This thing Brits often spout "they all speak English" ~ it's only true when they talk TO YOU. Which means you spend your life not sharing in jokes, being cut out of conversations when English is not the language ~ and loose a huge amount of respect for not even trying. Even where the language is about as easy-peasy as foreign tongues get, e.g. in Spain!Gledwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-86469551849873833252010-11-02T07:28:41.135+00:002010-11-02T07:28:41.135+00:00I just came back from my holidays in Egypt and my ...I just came back from my holidays in Egypt and my brain is still full of sun ! that's all to complicated. If you want to make a crash course in all Eastern languages go to Egypt to the Red sea. Besides English, Germans and Dutch people you also have a variety of languages as Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian, etc and I was very offended that I didn't understand any of these, lol !Gattinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636525277807715146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-15533497028909957722010-11-02T02:15:05.317+00:002010-11-02T02:15:05.317+00:00I hope that you get to take the courses and enjoy ...I hope that you get to take the courses and enjoy them. It sounds like a good goal.Sydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05642843245634635843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-54985564027988323792010-11-01T21:03:29.261+00:002010-11-01T21:03:29.261+00:00Hi Gleds, the radio would be the next best thing t...Hi Gleds, the radio would be the next best thing to actually being some place foreign to soak up a language. If you have an ear for language you can begin to get the drift of what's being said but then you need your tongue to fall into place too ;)<br /><br />Good luck with your applicationBimbimbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427788003822538655noreply@blogger.com