Can anyone speak another language?

[VladimirIlyich]

Some conversational German(and the locals genuinely seem to appreciate Scouse/German effort of an accent) and the odd word/phrase in French which I was ok at in school until we had a horrible bitch of a French teacher who didnt even know how to spell Paris Saint Germain properly.

I agree with Stig that learning other languages is a deffo knicker dropping skill worth having.

It hasnt worked for me but I'm sure it would work for the handsome buggers on the GF rather than us ugly mugs.

[Robbo29]

all i know is how to say hello, please, thank you and how to oreder a beer in spanish, italian and french. can count in german and cantonese, what more do you need? Oh and a few swear words in said languages

[Bobby Hundreds]

I asked a lad I worked with who speaks 3 languages what language he thinks in, his answer blew me away he said he didn't know. Fucking Meff. Iv'e been trying to learn spanish on that duolingo app, its good. I just don't go on it enough because i'm a seriously bad procrastinator.

[Anny Road]

Nee how is hello in Chinese, always say it when I go in a chippy and they love that shit, always ask them can I mow their lawns when they rule the world too and they love that even more,free chicken balls agogo. 

Dan Chow Fan... Egg Fried Rice

So that is Eng Chinese Australian (Gday) American, Scottish, Falklandish and Antarticish.

[neko]

Nee how is hello in Chinese, always say it when I go in a chippy and they love that shit, always ask them can I mow their lawns when they rule the world too and they love that even more,free chicken balls agogo. 

 

woh yoah shun juaw  (do you have a banana ?) ne yoah shun juaw (do you want a banana ?)

 

works with the oriental ladies.

 

i mastered quite a bit of fruit-based pickup lines for chinese girls when i was young and single.

[Pidge]

What's the best way to learn it?

 

I have wanted to learn Spanish for many years, but never got round to it.

 

Duolingo app

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Here is another thing, it doesn't matter how fluent I am in German I always use English do do maths equations etc. . 

 

What's German for "I have a nosebleed"?

[Guest Pistonbroke]

 

What's German for "I have a nosebleed"?

 

Mir blutet die Nase or Ich habe einen Nasenbluten. 

[setreal]

Mir blutet die Nase or Ich habe einen Nasenbluten. 

 

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[Guest Pistonbroke]

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You could also say it without "einen" but mostly it is used with the word in the sentence. 

[setreal]

Not really anything to get into a debate about, Piston, but if anything it would be "ein Nasenbluten". The most common usage is without any article though.. 

[stringvest]

They are just fluffy Germans really. They don't sound like they are singing round here though. It's more like coughing up a furball.

 

A baffling language.  Nothing sounds as you'd expect when you see it written down.  As with any language, just learn the words for beer, the bill, and the cashpoint and you'll be fine.  I've spent just enough time working across Europe to make a twat of myself in every local language. Including English, obv.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Not really anything to get into a debate about, Piston, but if anything it would be "ein Nasenbluten". The most common usage is without any article though.. 

 

ein Nasenbluten just translates as "a nosebleed" mate, he asked for the translation for "I have a nosebleed." I basically translated the sentence he asked for, personally I would say "Mir blutet die Nase" if it was happening there and then. That is the difficulty in translating between two different languages, " Ich habe Nasenbluten" is correct as well, a lot depends on which area of Germany you live in and what dialects they use. 

[cloggypop]

Ik heb een bloedneus.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Not really anything to get into a debate about, Piston, but if anything it would be "ein Nasenbluten". The most common usage is without any article though.. 

 

Just spoke with my daughter and you are indeed right in the context of the sentence. My one weakness in German is I am self taught and make grammatical errors at times, it can be a bit of a minefield. 

 

I sometimes translate sentences as they are put in English, "Ich habe Nasenbluten" actually translates as "My nose is bleeding" and not really to the question which was asked, as you say, they leave the article out when explaining a condition. 

[Mook]

Just spoke with my daughter and you are indeed right in the context of the sentence. My one weakness in German is I am self taught and make grammatical errors at times, it can be a bit of a minefield. 

 

[stringvest]

[Son of L8]

Just spoke with my daughter and you are indeed right in the context of the sentence. My one weakness in German is I am self taught and make grammatical errors at times, it can be a bit of a minefield. 

 

 

I'm exactly the opposite. Because of having some linguistic background before going after German, I studied the hell out of the formal structures in advance of going conversational. I've got a good handle on all the grammatical peculiarities but can really struggle keeping up with fast-paced conversation, especially with multiple speakers, because my brain wants to parse everything out structurally as if I was reading.

 

German grammar is fascinating though. There's this weird mix of elements recognizable to English speakers, but combined with ancient Indo-European structures that long ago vanished from English. Even what setreal pointed out about the gender of Nasenbluten is interesting -- the accusative article is ein instead of einen because the noun stem is actually a verb, bluten, and a German verb gets turned into a noun by adding a neuter article to the infinitive. It's like describing the act of bleeding as "a to-bleed-ness thing". That's bizarre to an English speaker's brain, but it's exactly identical to how verbal nouns were formed 2,400 years ago in ancient Greek, which is really interesting.

 

... Well, it's interesting if you're a complete geek for this shit like me.

[Kevin D]

Eas in Crucem.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Fuckin' 'ell, Guv, you've smacked me right in the 'ooter. There's fuckin' claret everywhere. 

 

Cockney. 

[Jairzinho]

Eas in Crucem.

 

Hoc filum pudendum.

[Kevin D]

Mirabile.

[neko]

stumbled onto this the other day.

 

read books for free in other languages with translation.

 

i like it....(sherlock holmes in spanish)

 

http://paralleltext.io/

[Bob]

Me and the ex signed up to an Italian class after we came back from our honeymoon, but it got pulled due to lack of people signed up and that was that.

 

I downloaded audio book things to listen to and tried to get started about a dozen times over the last 6 years without sticking with it.

 

I've learned how to say "that is not possible for me", which is quite apt.

[Bruce Spanner]

Nine.