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What is the worst experience you’ve ever had in any way, shape or form concerning a foreign language? ~

Posted - July 21, 2020
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  • 13277
    ¿Qué?
      July 21, 2020 3:25 PM MDT
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  • 53503
      July 21, 2020 4:30 PM MDT
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  • 44602
    When my first ship was in Australia in 1972, nobody there spoke English.
      July 21, 2020 3:55 PM MDT
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  • 53503

     

      LOL, the Aussies on here will now set upon you. I’ve got your back as much as I can, but when they start flinging Vegemite at us, you’re on your own. 

    ~

      July 21, 2020 4:29 PM MDT
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  • 7404

    I need to communicate regularly with people who speak languages I do not know through email. I have a built in translator on my work email, but it’s no better than just using stupid google translate. So I don’t really have a “worst”, but at least a few times a week things get lost in translation, frustrating. On a positive note, I don’t really have to worry about using proper grammar :) 

      July 21, 2020 6:33 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    You don't know the people through email or the languages through email?
      July 21, 2020 6:35 PM MDT
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  • 7404
    The languages they speak. I meant I need to communicate with people who speak languages foreign to me. 
      July 21, 2020 6:36 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Like American, eh?
      July 21, 2020 6:37 PM MDT
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  • 7404
    Surprisingly, I don’t deal with many Americans eh? lol, but the ones I do deal with through work are actually very friendly. The rudest people I deal with are all from Brazil. Every other country is fine, weird. 
      July 21, 2020 6:40 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Or every other country is weird, fine.
      July 21, 2020 6:42 PM MDT
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  • 7404
    No, it’s weird to me that every person I’ve ever personally dealt with from Brazil is a jerk, no idea why. The nicest people are from South Africa. I’ll but you Americans somewhere in the middle lol. 
      July 21, 2020 6:44 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    but butt or bet
      July 21, 2020 6:48 PM MDT
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  • 7404
    WRONG! the word I was going for was “put” :) 
      July 21, 2020 6:49 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    but butt or bet put

    There!
      July 21, 2020 6:52 PM MDT
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  • 7404
    Lol,  I don’t want to fix it now  because I like this part of the thread. You know, the you being WRONG part :) 
      July 21, 2020 6:56 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    I know, right? It's such an incredibly rare occurrence that you don't want to miss it!
      July 21, 2020 6:59 PM MDT
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  • 7404
      July 21, 2020 7:01 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Are you as think as I drunk you are?
      July 21, 2020 7:04 PM MDT
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  • 7404
    I wish I was:/ I’m too old to drink on a work night now,  I’d die tommorow. 
      July 21, 2020 7:08 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    I know what you mean. When I was 16-17 in high school, I would smoke a joint in the morning on the way to school - and make it through the day. I even graduated! If I did that now, I would pass out.
      July 21, 2020 7:15 PM MDT
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  • 7404
    When I was in my twenties I’d go out drinking every Tuesday night for karaoke and Thursday night for cheap drinks night and still be good to make it to work by 7am (that was my start time the job I had during those years) Now  if I have a bottle of wine on a Saturday, I’m still dragging my azz to get to work by nine on Monday Lol. 
      July 21, 2020 7:19 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    My mom, who lived to be 88, liked to say, "It's tough to get old."
      July 21, 2020 7:21 PM MDT
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  • 7404
    She was right, it’s also hard to admit it to yourself :) 
      July 21, 2020 7:23 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Indeed.
      July 21, 2020 7:26 PM MDT
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