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Cian

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
Irish, if I spent a week or two reading Foinse and watching the news on TG4 I'd probably be close to fluent (and this is despite getting off doing it in school)

A phrasebook and watching ST1/2 for a few weeks may dig up the Slovak I learnt when dating one of its native speakers; but have since forgotten. Never fluent.
 








hart's shirt

Well-known member
Jul 8, 2003
11,377
Kitbag in Dubai
English, French, a little Italian (she was very nice), a few words of Arabic, and the language of love.

*avoids all cunning linguist jokes*
 






Blackadder

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 6, 2003
16,138
Haywards Heath



One interesting thing we found in Holland was the translation.

If you have time, have a look at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

and enter the English phrase ' you can '.........

As a result, when someone says you can, you know what the reply is !
 


We're the Stripes

Well-known member
Jul 31, 2005
3,591
BN2
Bad French (my accent's good but vocab, grammar and general application are fairly rubbish)
The odd word of German (zwei bier bitte, herr ober)
The occasional bit of holiday phrasebook Spanish
Several Welsh words.

So, the real answer to your question is - No, but I'm open to heroic failure.
 






pasty

A different kind of pasty
Jul 5, 2003
31,376
West, West, West Sussex
One interesting thing we found in Holland was the translation.

If you have time, have a look at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

and enter the English phrase ' you can '.........

As a result, when someone says you can, you know what the reply is !

Tee hee. :D I already know that one without looking. A lot of business letters start with those 2 words as well.
 


Trufflehound

Re-enfranchised
Aug 5, 2003
14,127
The democratic and free EU
One interesting thing we found in Holland was the translation.

If you have time, have a look at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

and enter the English phrase ' you can '.........

As a result, when someone says you can, you know what the reply is !

And how do you think Dutch people feel when they come to Britain and see "Cut 'n' blow dry" signs in hairdressers' windows...? :thumbsup:



or "Pick 'n' mix" in Woolworths...?
 


Dave the OAP

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
47,002
at home
i am fluent in talking bollocks
 








Man of Harveys

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
19,064
Brighton, UK
Fluent German - couldn't speak a word of it when we moved there when I was six, but soon picked it up at school etc. I seem to have caught it young enough both to avoid having an English accent when speaking it and for it to have stayed put when I moved away aged 10. Plus conversational French which gets better when I've had a drink and/or fancy a French girl, both of which I do a lot.

I've found getting a cheap, non-Sky satellite dish and pointing it at Astra 19.2E is BRILLIANT for brushing up on languages btw.
 






Fluent German - couldn't speak a word of it when we moved there when I was six, but soon picked it up at school etc. I seem to have caught it young enough both to avoid having an English accent when speaking it and for it to have stayed put when I moved away aged 10.
What about when you've "had a drink and/or fancy a German girl"?

Are you hopelessly tongue-tied by the fact that your everyday experience in German came to a stop at the age of ten?
 


Gully

Monkey in a seagull suit.
Apr 24, 2004
16,812
Way out west
And how do you think Dutch people feel when they come to Britain and see "Cut 'n' blow dry" signs in hairdressers' windows...? :thumbsup:



or "Pick 'n' mix" in Woolworths...?

Kut en Pik...Kont is yer arse!!!

What I found amusing was the variety of words they had for sex, a bit like English, some polite and some less so:

Samen fiestsen - cycle together
Samen naiien - sow together

...those were the more polite, if somewhat poetic, choices!
 
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Trufflehound

Re-enfranchised
Aug 5, 2003
14,127
The democratic and free EU
What I found amusing was the variety of words they had for sex, a bit like English, some polite and some less so:

Samen fiestsen - cycle together
Samen naiien - sow together

...those were the more polite, if somewhat poetic, choices!


Bizarrest one is vrijen - "to free"... Never have quite worked that one out.

Best to stick to "neuken" methinks.

And best never to walk into a tobacco shop and ask anyone to "pipe" you...
 




Gully

Monkey in a seagull suit.
Apr 24, 2004
16,812
Way out west
Vrijen is a nice one, it is probable the closest you can get to make love, maybe it is supposed to represent liberation...possibly!

I used to like the insult Eikel, which translates as acorn, it apparently means nut...but the Dutch use it to describe a bollock.
 


Trufflehound

Re-enfranchised
Aug 5, 2003
14,127
The democratic and free EU
Vrijen is a nice one, it is probable the closest you can get to make love, maybe it is supposed to represent liberation...possibly!

I used to like the insult Eikel, which translates as acorn, it apparently means nut...but the Dutch use it to describe a bollock.

Dutch for bollock is kloot.

Eikel is your helmet, as in bell-end.
 


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