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TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title

I can and do, but if after 25 years you can't tell my sarcasm without a /s I can't help you.

I am curious what languages you speak. I am deeply envious and impressed. Multilingualism is a superpower I wish I possessed. Were you raised multilingual? Do I blame my parents or am I just lazy and stupid?
Oh I’m just sensitive because i was in my state spelling bee five years in a row

I speak 3 Germanic and one romance. Spanish started in elementary school and goes through high school, so a good amount of retention even now.

German came later, but lived and went to university there for a year, so shock immersion style helped. When I think of what foreign language comes most naturally or which one I often “default” to in my head, it’s German. I have to do less translation in my head and more flowing speech.

Then comes Swedish. I learned that more recently, I have family who are Swedish citizens that speak it, and with my knowledge of German, decided to learn. What I didn’t realize was that while my knowledge of German meant I already knew what a quarter of the words meant in Swedish- but the pronunciation is wildly different than German, which gets me corrected quite a bit .

Spanish is beautiful and easy to learn and say

German is not beautiful and is much more difficult with the cases and three genders

Swedish is easier than German from a tense perspective, but has more sounds than German that native North Americans can’t actually make. German has a few like that (umlauts) ss, st sounds . Swedish has the ä å ö sounds

German with three genders and Swedish being arbitrary of en or ett articles mean you just have to memorize the gender, unlike Spanish which is like child’s play
 
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I am curious what languages you speak. I am deeply envious and impressed. Multilingualism is a superpower I wish I possessed. Were you raised multilingual? Do I blame my parents or am I just lazy and stupid?
I agree with you. I marvel at multilingual people. I worked (heck, hired him) with a guy from Haiti. He spoke English, French, Creole, Spanish, Portuguese (his second wife was Brazilian), and is learning Flemish. I was extremely envious.

As for me, it was stupid. I excelled at all topics in school ... except foreign language. Barely, and I mean barely, passed Spanish. And I never could pick up Hebrew despite needing to take a lot of that.
 
Oh I’m just sensitive because i was in my state spelling bee five years in a row

I speak 3 Germanic and one romance. Spanish started in elementary school and goes through high school, so a good amount of retention even now.

German came later, but lived and went to university there for a year, so shock immersion style helped. When I think of what foreign language comes most naturally or which one I often “default” to in my head, it’s German. I have to do less translation in my head and more flowing speech.

Then comes Swedish. I learned that more recently, I have family who are Swedish citizens that speak it, and with my knowledge of German, decided to learn. What I didn’t realize was that while my knowledge of German meant I already knew what a quarter of the words meant in Swedish- but the pronunciation is wildly different than German, which gets me corrected quite a bit .

Spanish is beautiful and easy to learn and say

German is not beautiful and is much more difficult with the cases and three genders

Swedish is easier than German from a tense perspective, but has more sounds than German that native North Americans can’t actually make. German has a few like that (umlauts) ss, st sounds . Swedish has the ä å ö sounds

German with three genders and Swedish being arbitrary of en or ett articles mean you just have to memorize the gender, unlike Spanish which is like child’s play
As a person who also learned German (but didn’t live there so much less retention):
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I love that meme!!

Has Donnie figured out German has 3 genders yet?
The complexity of der die das is hilarious in contrast to the rather blunt nature of German words though.

My daughter is in German now (same teacher I had in high school btw) and I was describing stuff like “you know what the German word for ambulance is? Krankenwagen. You know what krankenwagen literally means? Sick wagon.”
 
The complexity of der die das is hilarious in contrast to the rather blunt nature of German words though.

My daughter is in German now (same teacher I had in high school btw) and I was describing stuff like “you know what the German word for ambulance is? Krankenwagen. You know what krankenwagen literally means? Sick wagon.”
I like pen “kugelscrheiber”
In Swedish it’s “penna”
 
Yeah I honestly didn't feel any major falloff in Lasso seasons and welcome another. Call it a cash grab all you want, obviously their fans are asking for it.
 
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