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Where in the World is Bob Saget?
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unkadug
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englanddg
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englanddg
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Everyone says how weirdly words are pronounced in French, and then you look at German.Sounds like it would be difficult to learn, though.
Not really. There are only about 700 basic words. Everything else is a compound word.
A lot of foreign countries learn English starting at a young age in school. Heck, I hear they even learn it from the get-go in the UK.
I guess that's true. The pronunciation seems terribly difficult, though.
Nemo14
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My pastor's wife spoke fluent German to the point where most Germans thought she was a native. (She had worked there at the embassy for many years.)I will never forget listening to her on the phone with a friend from Germany just a few days before she succumbed to cancer, just talking and laughing in German.
It's always interesting listening to people speak other languages that you don't. It's shocking when you find out someone speaks another language. Back in high school, we were on our way back from a field trip to Chicago, and this girl started talking on her phone to her grandparents. She was fluent in Polish! 
Now I wasn't really her friend (didn't have anything against her), but still.
One of my friends also spoke a foreign language. Not sure what it was, but it was something they speak in Ghana (his parents are from there). Found out in French class that the word for "elk" is the same in both French and his language.
The word for elk in French is "wapiti" in case you were wondering.
Now I wasn't really her friend (didn't have anything against her), but still.One of my friends also spoke a foreign language. Not sure what it was, but it was something they speak in Ghana (his parents are from there). Found out in French class that the word for "elk" is the same in both French and his language.
The word for elk in French is "wapiti" in case you were wondering.
englanddg
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I lived there for about half my youth (though I was never truly fluent, at least I wouldn't consider myself such)...my sister was born there.
I love the country, and miss it...
The hardest part for a "non speaker", I'd imagine, is the gutteral sounds. The alphabet, if you learn that with the proper german phonetics, is EXACTLY how most things are pronounced (remember, they have a few more letters than our alphabet does...)
englanddg
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It's always interesting listening to people speak other languages that you don't. It's shocking when you find out someone speaks another language. Back in high school, we were on our way back from a field trip to Chicago, and this girl started talking on her phone to her grandparents. She was fluent in Polish!
One of my friends also spoke a foreign language. Not sure what it was, but it was something they speak in Ghana (his parents are from there). Found out in French class that the word for "elk" is the same in both French and his language.
The word for elk in French is "wapiti" in case you were wondering.
Oh. I thought it was "unshaven armpits"...
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