Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2022 5:02:06 GMT
Jul 11, 2022 19:27:59 GMT @davejavu said:
I am not gonna indulge your paranoia, beanbrain, it's a well-known exercise in futility with the likes of you. Let's just say that the excellence of my English is owed to my linguistic skills which are exceptional. In Kindergarten, I was already fluent in three languages, none of them was English, then I learned German and Ancient Greek, then Latin, then Esperanto, which was incredibly easy. Then I was told that in order to get to the post graduate school that I wanted, I needed to be quite good in English, so I learned and caught up with students that had been taught it for years in no time, got into the School and then learned Arabic (because I lived in what in America would be called little Arabia in Lyon and I was frustrated not to know what people around me were talking about) then I dated a beautiful girl that was learning Japanese at a high level (she was one year from teaching it) and I thought it would be funny to learn it from her. She liked that since it gave her a little advanced training for her future job... Plus I dabble in quite a few other languages...So you see, learning English means nothing to me. I almost never practice it outside of a couple of forums like this. IRL I use French, German and Italian for my job (mostly) when I go on vacation I use Spanish and Arabic (I just love to haggle in North-Africa's open markets and you can't quite do it if you don't speak the local language).
Anyway, I should write a book about it...