CHAT Are You Comfortable in Another Language?

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night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Marie said:
Oh Nehimama and Faithfulskeptic don't be sad! It couldn't have been a better person to happen to. I worked extensively with special education population for nearly all my life. I can find humor and beauty in everything I experience. No worries!! And Spellcheck saves me from the spelling nazi. :lkick: :groucho:
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I hide it reasonably well unless you're standing in front of me and know me. But I DO get frustrated some days.

But at least i can tell ya where the issue is. Behind my left eye, back about above my left ear, there is an aproximately 2 Cm fuzzy ball, through which MANY of my word recalls pass, on a good day when the sun is shining in Glockamora and God smiles on me.
But I DO get frustrated and the temper control is some days damn sketchy.
 
Marie

Marie

Veteran Member
night driver said:
I hide it reasonably well unless you're standing in front of me and know me. But I DO get frustrated some days.

But at least i can tell ya where the issue is. Behind my left eye, back about above my left ear, there is an aproximately 2 Cm fuzzy ball, through which MANY of my word recalls pass, on a good day when the sun is shining in Glockamora and God smiles on me.
But I DO get frustrated and the temper control is some days damn sketchy.
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Tbi also? Exact same with me!
 
N

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
TBI? Nope. Ischemic stroke, moderated by tPA clot buster.

Hey, I really DO use Grammarly but right now I'm laptopping it since my main box is schizophrenic, until I can get MINT up and running. Grammarly not active on laptop.
 
Jackalope

Jackalope

Irregular
B.A. in French, and several Quebecoise girlfriends, so I'm comfortable with the language, and lots of idioms. I dream in French and English. I can understand and speak some German, due to my grandparents. I can read both Spanish and Russian, but at an elementary school level. I understand and speak some Sinhalese, can't read it though. I'm still learning English, though I've been studying it over 60 years.
 
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night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Friend of mine runs a bakery/bagel sop in one of THOSE suburbs here and takes his mom when he goes up to central Penna to go food shopping for the bakery and doing yard sales etc or local fairs or farmers markets. She goes and he says it's hilarious in that THEY are speaking Penna Dutch (German sourced) and SHE is using yiddish. And NOODY has a problem understanding.

Of course they're ALL speaking "Little old Lady" which I swear was what all the Italian ladies at my uncle's camp spoke...in and around the marathon canasta games.
 
Milkweed Host

Milkweed Host

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i took German in high school and college.
I forgot most of it.

In 2004, my wife and daughter flew to Germany and i flew up from the M.E.
While traveling around by train, we stopped in Aschaffenburg, just outside of Frankfurt.
We went into a KFC. I thought to myself, i didn't forget everything, so I said the lady
taking our order: Guten Tag, Wie Geht's, nummer eins und drei bitte.
This lady, yelled back at me that she spoke English. Okay? I asked her what
was her first clue that I wasn't from around here. She said as soon as I spoke.

One of my nine year old grand daughters speaks fluent English and Vietnamese.
She was also taking Chinese, but dropped out because that is one of the most difficult
to learn.
She lives in the Houston TX, area, but spends a lot of time with family in the Saigon area.
Ho Chi Minh City for you youngsters.
 
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