The Eurovision song contest is for any country in which the Eurovision channel is broadcast I believe. No-one that I know of has ever knowingly watched the Eurovision channel.
2 Likes
That is a real picture. OMG that poor dog.
1 Like
They say dogs & owners start to look alike after a while.
2 Likes
Are you saying thatās @Edgy s dog?
2 Likes
That was just mean, @polo77j .
And way too close to the truth.
1 Like
My 5 YO got me good the other day.
One of our cats was batting something around. It turned out to be a cat turd (we have four cats of varying degrees of intelligence).
I said, of course, āWhat a crappy toy.ā
Without missing a beat, he hits me with, āWhat a crappy joke, dad.ā
3 Likes
What a dumb language @Bagsy
5 Likes
No matter how āstupidā German is. I still love it- just need stop making excuses to procrastinate learning it
I still find it funny why all nouns are capitalized
1 Like
I know itās just a silly meme, but we could honestly find dozens of more reasons why English is a ādumbā language. Especially the way itās spoken today. German is pretty straightforward to learn in my opinion. I think I would be pretty frustrated learning English as a foreign languageā¦ then again, most native speakers of any tongue say that.
3 Likes
ohhhā¦ I am SOOOO glad I grew up speaking Mandarin.
Doubt I could learn it as a foreign language
If you have been in this game for any length of time you will have wasted money on a supplement or two. I thought this meme was a good representation of time with supplements.
5 Likes
Only if youāre dealing with steamboat companies on the Danube and their respective captains.
Or beef labeling supervision law.
I always wondered if native speakers of English can wrap their heads around the concept of grammatical cases when learning a foreign language that has them.
2 Likes
This was a HUGE issue for me learning Spanishā¦ and a VERY big reason I decided not to do Russian studies
Oh man I I havenāt seen that one in years. Thanks for the reminder, hahaha!
For sure. As you said itās just a fun bit. While the sentence in the meme is indeed correct, no one would actually talk like that.
1 Like
I doubt it. I donāt think any of my friends would know what they are. My parents definitely would not. I think thatās a big reason why a lot of English speakers give up on learning a foreign language.
I remember so many of my peers in high school taking 3-5 years of a foreign language and barely being able to say anything by the endā¦
1 Like
Iām a native English speaker that started learning Russian at 15. Iām fluent now.
Thereās a distinction between learning to speak a foreign language, which is really just getting to a point where it flows off your tongue without thinking about it, and learning the grammar of a foreign language, which requires quite a bit of study and memorization. Learning a foreign language as an adult, you really need to do some of both.
The problem I see a lot of English speakers have is that they donāt understand English grammar. We have cases for some of our pronouns in English. If you understand the difference between āIā and āme,ā you can understand cases. But most Americans just speak English without understanding it.
The other difficulty with learning a foreign language as an American is the purely practical problem that most foreigners speak English better than Americans speak their language, which leads to communication happening in English and Americans getting no practice in the foreign language.
2 Likes