Britain is like a glass house mirrored from the inside.
Everybody can look into it, nobody can look outside.
I just try to think it as an irrational dialect of French.
Yeah and now i speak better english than most of you island dwelling neanderthals
My revenge is to learn it with an American accent.
It’s a pity that not all Barries enjoyed the benefit of learning English
Jokes on you. I was forced to learn French and German in school as well, and I don’t speak either of those languages anymore.
Well maybe German but that’s just Dutch with extra steps and some words switched around for confusion. And also French but only enough to order a baguette and say that I don’t like Paris, and that women SHOULD shave their armpits.
But mostly I forgot and only speak English, because of videogames, the internet and South Park. School was irrelevant.
No we were forced to learn english to avoid discrimination
Imagine only speaking 2 languages.
„Auch aus Steinen, die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man Schönes bauen.“
You can also build beautiful things out of stones that are placed in your path.
Vous pouvez également construire de belles choses avec des pierres placées sur votre chemin.
„Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.“
If you don’t know foreign languages, you don’t know anything about your own.
Si vous ne connaissez pas les langues étrangères, vous ne savez rien des vôtres.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It’s not English. Technically it’s insular French.
Isn’t Barry also forced to learn a second language in school? Why no bilingual then?
I speak italian and english, can understand a bit of French and Spanish, and willing to learn German too.
Guess how it feels like when you can speak 4 languages and then you meet a German or a British
I was forced to learn Spanish and I’m terrible at it.
I wasn’t, I learned from weekend morning cartoons and movies.
you speak English because it’s the only language you speak.
i speak English cause it’s the only language you speak.
we are not the same.
+ 8 years of DEUTSCH (I don’t remember a thing)
The fun fact is that English classes in school are so shitty in Spain that we have to learn it on purpose afterwards.
Here in Italy also German, French or Spanish based on the region
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por que tener aprendemos idiomas? todos tú hablas inglés
Bilingual implies I stopped at 2, you coward
And we visited the most interesting beautiful english-speaking country:
Australia
Weird that my country teaches our national language (which we spent a couple centuries preventing the British from stamping it out entirely) in such a shitty way that most people can only introduce themselves, say basic words (Apple, egg, teacher), and ask to go to the toilet.
Only Bilingual?
Many even need to be trilingual to be able to go to university…
Ich heiße Felix – checkmate
It not english, it business langage, you got depraved of your culture, nothing to brag about.
Forced? I learned this thing called English on my own!
Shut up, I’m already learning my 4th language
Ah Barry, you misunderstood. Many of us are trilingual.
I speak German though
Bilingual? You’re stuck in the 90s, Barry. Nowadays, it’s about being trilingual.
Imagine bragging about NOT speaking a second language.
Some of us speak our regional language, brit. So don’t need yours to be bilingual (we couldnt be bilingual without the regional language because we are also bad at languages)
My grandmother was teaching me Bulgarian every time I went to hers, ever since I always enjoyed learning new languages. Thinking of German being the next one since it’s so useful.
Only bilingual? *Laughs in Belgian
Why learn another language when I can just say it more slowly but louder?
Any person who brags about being *bi*lingual is a drooling troglodyte.
Sincerely,
A guy who had five different languages simultaneously in his first year of high school.
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Britain is like a glass house mirrored from the inside.
Everybody can look into it, nobody can look outside.
I just try to think it as an irrational dialect of French.
Yeah and now i speak better english than most of you island dwelling neanderthals
My revenge is to learn it with an American accent.
It’s a pity that not all Barries enjoyed the benefit of learning English
Jokes on you. I was forced to learn French and German in school as well, and I don’t speak either of those languages anymore.
Well maybe German but that’s just Dutch with extra steps and some words switched around for confusion. And also French but only enough to order a baguette and say that I don’t like Paris, and that women SHOULD shave their armpits.
But mostly I forgot and only speak English, because of videogames, the internet and South Park. School was irrelevant.
No we were forced to learn english to avoid discrimination
Imagine only speaking 2 languages.
„Auch aus Steinen, die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man Schönes bauen.“
You can also build beautiful things out of stones that are placed in your path.
Vous pouvez également construire de belles choses avec des pierres placées sur votre chemin.
„Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.“
If you don’t know foreign languages, you don’t know anything about your own.
Si vous ne connaissez pas les langues étrangères, vous ne savez rien des vôtres.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It’s not English. Technically it’s insular French.
Isn’t Barry also forced to learn a second language in school? Why no bilingual then?
I speak italian and english, can understand a bit of French and Spanish, and willing to learn German too.
Guess how it feels like when you can speak 4 languages and then you meet a German or a British
I was forced to learn Spanish and I’m terrible at it.
I wasn’t, I learned from weekend morning cartoons and movies.
you speak English because it’s the only language you speak.
i speak English cause it’s the only language you speak.
we are not the same.
+ 8 years of DEUTSCH (I don’t remember a thing)
The fun fact is that English classes in school are so shitty in Spain that we have to learn it on purpose afterwards.
Here in Italy also German, French or Spanish based on the region
[removed]
por que tener aprendemos idiomas? todos tú hablas inglés
Bilingual implies I stopped at 2, you coward
And we visited the most interesting beautiful english-speaking country:
Australia
Weird that my country teaches our national language (which we spent a couple centuries preventing the British from stamping it out entirely) in such a shitty way that most people can only introduce themselves, say basic words (Apple, egg, teacher), and ask to go to the toilet.
Only Bilingual?
Many even need to be trilingual to be able to go to university…
Ich heiße Felix – checkmate
It not english, it business langage, you got depraved of your culture, nothing to brag about.
Forced? I learned this thing called English on my own!
Shut up, I’m already learning my 4th language
Ah Barry, you misunderstood. Many of us are trilingual.
I speak German though
Bilingual? You’re stuck in the 90s, Barry. Nowadays, it’s about being trilingual.
Imagine bragging about NOT speaking a second language.
Some of us speak our regional language, brit. So don’t need yours to be bilingual (we couldnt be bilingual without the regional language because we are also bad at languages)
My grandmother was teaching me Bulgarian every time I went to hers, ever since I always enjoyed learning new languages. Thinking of German being the next one since it’s so useful.
Only bilingual? *Laughs in Belgian
Why learn another language when I can just say it more slowly but louder?
Any person who brags about being *bi*lingual is a drooling troglodyte.
Sincerely,
A guy who had five different languages simultaneously in his first year of high school.