Are you saying that because I’m old enough to remember when the Roman’s ruled England !! 
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I’ve always loved Germany, history, culture etc. My family went on vacation there and it literally felt like I was returning home even though I’d never been. My mom likes to joke that I was a German in my “past life” 
A couple of my friends became fluent in Japanese doing this. One of them actually decided to go to uni in Japan because of anime
I was planning to major in Russian studies… until I realized just how difficult the language was. 6case endings! I could barely keep up with the 3 in Spanish
Spanish is a great language. I took it in hs. I can’t write or speak it anymore but for some reason I can still read it .
FYI, mandarin isn’t bad…if you grew up with it…
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Left shoulder is a bit “clicky” after one weird rep last OHP day. Not hurt, just something to monitor and keep in mind for today.
1 OH yoke walk (after the recent discussion, I added the belt)
2 x ca. 16m (with turn) @ 115 kg
2 strict log press (proper dead stop)
3 x 5 @ 71 kg -
lol. This felt just as easy as it looked and still this might actually be PR territory.
3 hicks press
5 x 3 @ 110 kg + chains
4 ng lat pull down
5 x 10
5a lateral raises
3 x 10
5b reverse flys
3 x 10
5c cuba rotation
3 x 10
6 triceps extensions
3 x 10
Notes:
- I consider this my accessory session to the first upper body day. There is no pressure to lift certain weights. Rep ranges are set but with the weight, I go off of how I feel. Last week I was too fatigued so I am taking away work from this week’s sessions. In this case I took 1 set from OH carries, 2 from log lifts, 1 each from the circuit. I’ll also limit squat sets to 5 total.
- easy day. Only slightly difficult thing were the hicks presses. That is understandable since a lot is asked of my triceps atm. 2 weeks more of this format, then order will change, so that the press is first and no more OH carries.
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There are definitely worse places. Sounds like you should come visit!
Haha didn’t know that was such an ordinary thing. Apparently anime is pretty popular. My ex made me watch some with her and while it wasn’t terrible per se, I couldn’t get into it.
That can probably be said about most languages, no? I was as close to understanding my dog as I was to understanding my ex’s family at a family gathering (Russian).
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My family went to Munich for a week. Seriously awesome. I felt like I was returning home even though I’d never been
My parents joke that I was German in a “past life”
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I lived in Munich the past 2+ years. It’s an awesome place! Also dare I say your parents fulfilled a stereotype here, haha?
Lol! Definitely… although I wouldn’t be mad if that were somehow true.
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On the language thing, I learnt english and german in school.
Right now I’m trying to learn spanish, I’ve so far picked up a lot of words, but still not able to really speak it. My boys fiance is half mexican so I could speak it with her, but it’s not going that well.
Very dificult to learn a new language.
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Do you still speak German? Danish is kind of funny as it sounds unfamiliar but you can read a lot of it as a German. It basically looks like a northern German accent “Plattdeutsch” (“flat German”) written out.
Denmark is very accomodating to Germans. Whenever I was there I had the impression I wouldn’t even need English to get around because so many of you speak German!
The funny thing about the German language is that the area in which it is spoken is geographically seen rather small. Yet there is a broad amount of accents. There is one German that everyone agrees on as the standard and “can speak”: Hochdeutsch (high German). Depending on where you are, things can get so weird that you actually can’t understand the other person (rare case but possible).
One time I was on my way to Vienna with Wayne (Australian) who couldn’t speak German but knew words and such as he had been living in Munich for some time. We stopped at a gas station and I payed my stuff. The lady there had a brutal Austrian accent. When we left Wayne took the piss at how funny she sounded and asked: “What did she even say, mate?” My reponse was:“No idea, I didn’t get a single word”.
The absolute worst is Switzerland. They speak Schwitzerdeutsch (Swiss-German). One time at my old job someone called and tried speaking to me in that. My reponse was literally:“ahm…eh…”. He then said in perfect high German:“Oh I see you would prefer high German. My apologies!”
Haha I really like the topic of languages.
Also I am myself a weird case in the way that my first name is Swedish but pronounced wrong. That was confirmed when I met someone from Sweden. So I can’t visit @Voxel in fear of being laughed at for literally not being able to pronounce my own name.
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What’s your name?
Kjell
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That’s a fine, and rare, name. Some regional variety too. If you can say “challenge” then you have the first sound in some parts of the country at least (tch). I can’t say it’s the most common way to pronounce it though.
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Then it holds true what the guy told me. He said that the pronounciation would depend on where in Sweden you are (mainly north vs south).
I’ve only met one other guy with that name so far and he is the boyfriend of a friend of mine. We were at a party and both found it terribly awkward to hear someone say “Kjell” because we have both never been in a situation in which that could actually refer to someone else. The other Kjell does pronounce his name the same way I do and we both definitely do it wrong (no tch sound).
Have you ever heard a broad glaswegian accent? Or a full bore scouser? Sometimes I have enough trouble just with English, never mind a second language.
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Just because you don’t have the “tch” sound does not mean you are wrong.
Listen to these four
When I was a wee lad a voice actor/coach visited our school for English class to show some dialects, he was originally from the UK. To his surprise, I followed him along when he spoke Cockney as I called him out for using language that wasn’t appropriate in a school. It got awkward.
It was a bit like English English
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yeah I still understand most german, whenever I’m in a country I try to speak it, I was terrible last time in Germany. I myself thought I was perfect, until I watched my wife and kids face…
Kjell is or was common in Denmark as well, not that much anymore though.
We would pronounce it with the kj sound.
Even in a very small country like Denmark we’ve got dialects that’s hard to understand.
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That was pretty cool. I am closest to number 2. I basically start with a hard “k” like in [k]angaroo, Mar[k] or [K]yle. “jell” is pretty close to how you would say “yell”. It sounds like the options you posted skip the “j”, which I/ we don’t.
I listened to the danish dudes pronouncing and he said it whithout the j.
But some says it with a K followed by the Yell sound
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I can continue going to Denmark then, haha.
If everything fails I could go with my second first name, which is also Scandinavian (Norwegian if I am not mistaken) - Eric. That’s the same in your languages and mine.
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Glaswegian is just the worst. I’d say my English is pretty good, I’ve never had problems anywhere else in Britain but when I had to speak to an employee at the train station in Glasgow I was at a serious loss. Could not understand a word.
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