🎭 GD Chat Room (Part 4)

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I’ve always despised what I refer to as “Hollywood French/German/Russian/Spanish/[insert language or accent of choice here]”; the idea that someone of a certain nationality speaks English in the exact same broken way, because they do so in the movies. Being unable to pronounce certain letters (like say W), exaggerating others, randomly appending a letter to the end of words.

As a gamer I’ve audibly communicated with people from literally all over the world and while there are cases where there’s a tendency towards Hollywood accent, it’s rare when someone uses English on a regular basis and almost non-existent to the degree murican movies uses it. At university I joined the Japanese society. Mostly for the free language classes, but I still had a lot of fun with the people and other activities. And not one of the Japanese with their varying degree of English proficiency had trouble saying “wife” or randomly added Os and Us to the end of English words.

Of course the irony is that primary English-speakers themselves speak other languages horrifically usually and when they’re unable to pronounce a name they just make up one of their own. Marcus Antonius too hard? Yeah, he was actually Mark Anthony, that sounds very Roman. Naples? Try Napoli, it’s not a freaking body part, sheesh.

While wearing cowboy hats, and having a half-eaten cheeseburger with a stars-and-stripes napkin in one hand.

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American bigots. “Talk English or leave the country!”

OK fair enough. Spell harbour, armour and aluminium for me?

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Wasn’t he married to j.lo at some point?

Don’t know about other English speaking countries but in the UK language education is horrifically poor, we don’t start learning even basic French/German until high school and then it is a couple of hours a week with zero focus on accent or tone.

In French, I can say my name, ask for yours and say hello and goodbye but I cannot understand any French spoken back to me… That was 4 years of formal French.

And German? we got one year of that just so we could learn to say thank you… The other side of the year got 4 years German and one year French.

Thankfully, the few times I’ve been to France the people there were lovely and understood I was trying :dracthyr_hehe_animated:

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Always funny when they do german characters and add “jaja” at the end of every sentence, no german speaks like that. :laughing:

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I am not sure if to trust, on the song of famous artist Mo-Do and his song Eins, Zwei, Polizei we can hear lyrics repeat multiple times “Ja, ja, ja, was ist los, was ist das?” :dracthyr_a1:

Ja, ja, ja, was ist los, was ist das?
Ja, ja, ja, was ist los, was ist das?
Ja, ja, ja, was ist los, was ist das?
Ja, ja, ja, was ist los, was ist das?

Ja, ja, ja, was ist los?
Ja, ja, ja, was ist das?
Ja, ja, ja, was ist los?
Ja, ja, ja, was ist los, was ist das?

Eins, zwei, Polizei
Drei, vier, Grenadier
FĂźnf, sechs, alte Keks
Sieben, acht, Gute Nacht

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Speaking of languages ​​and pronunciation, it were strange watching independence days ball yday from the presidential palace and him and his wife giving interviews and even tho the topics were casual as like they were speaking of her wifes spotify list and top songs on it for some reason it were still strange see your countrys head of state and his wife speaking English or Sweden and then as last Finnish, but the wifes English origin and I imagine that why they stick to English or Sweden as the president himself is half swede and his lived most of his life outside of Finland in other countries. I dont mind, the world is globalizing through internet but it was still unusual. And this were independence days celebration so its not just any interviews they are giving :dracthyr_a1:

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It used to be better. I did 8 years’ French and am reasonably fluent. 5 years German. Not so fluent but can read it ok. Trying to learn Dutch now as an adult and it’s so hard to remember anything.

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I’ve done 6 years of German throughout secondary school, and I sucked at it. Failed it for my leaving cert 25 years ago… :sweat:

Grew up speaking just English, was exempted from learning Irish [moved to Ireland], pretty much only started another language at 13 years old.

People say it’s best to start learning at a very young age, I just couldn’t grasp learning new words of a different language then.

Hell, primary school I went to an English/American school in Malaysia [a lot of expat kids there] so I had very little exposure to another language. Tried some Mandarin and Malay… :sweat_smile:

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Wo ist das grosse schnitzel?

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In a week at the Vienna Christmas market :christmas_tree::santa: :snowman_with_snow:

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Decided get oneplus for next phone as current stop gain android updates and cant use apps. This some new mid tier from them looked good on reviews, hope it also lasts. They are promising android updates atleast till 20 but who knows.

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Mein gott! Schau dir alle Wirste an!

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They do say that as it comes more naturally. I started French at 10, German at 13 and Dutch many decades after which kinda proves this

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Been a busy day but had fab lunch

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It looks a lot nicer than the place I usually drive past to get a 2 euro double cheese and 2 euro 4 nuggets without mayo :dracthyr_hehe:

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Bad kitty

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I read German and Japanese from old Commando comics and Im fluent in “Raus”, “Gott in himmel” and “zum teufel”.

I also learned Germans when they die all scream “arrrrgh”… Japanese all scream “aiiieee” after screaming “banzai” and everyone from England says "strewth, blimey, crikey or “cor”.

Highly recommended.

Oh yeah.

“Would you like another schnitzelgruben?”

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All good, mate- just a dodgy kidney, but shes still breathing

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Fixed it for ya :rofl:

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Its 5c here, so collllllllllllllllld