Although I feel I must point out that "when you speak English and French, German's not that hard" is utter bullshit.
Never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth?
Mal ,'Safe'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
megan walker - Jul 18, 2011 12:29:24 pm PDT #8316 of 11999
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
erikaj - Jul 18, 2011 12:34:26 pm PDT #8317 of 11999
Always Anti-fascist!
It seems like it would be, Megan. Although I speak Spanish so it seems like I wouldn't have trouble with French or Italian. Comparatively. German has totally different rules.
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2011 12:34:39 pm PDT #8318 of 11999
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"when you speak English and French, German's not that hard"
I know, WTF? It's hardly Spanish and Italian.
megan walker - Jul 18, 2011 12:46:23 pm PDT #8319 of 11999
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The romance languages completely crossover. So, as an editor, I could often help my Spanish colleague with questions and she could help with Italian and French, but my boss, who knows French, Italian, some Spanish and Russian (and even some German), still has problems with our German books.
Jesse - Jul 18, 2011 1:40:11 pm PDT #8320 of 11999
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, it's not like it was Dutch -- is it even Dutch I'm thinking of? That often looks like weirdly-spelled English?
Polter-Cow - Jul 18, 2011 1:56:22 pm PDT #8321 of 11999
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"when you speak English and French, German's not that hard"
I know, WTF? It's hardly Spanish and Italian.
SERIOUSLY THAT MADE NO SENSE.
amych - Jul 18, 2011 1:58:28 pm PDT #8322 of 11999
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Uh, yeah.
Signed, formerly near-fluent in French but could never pick up a lick of German even though half my fricken' family spoke it and I could understand everything they said
Sue - Jul 18, 2011 3:14:50 pm PDT #8323 of 11999
hip deep in pie
So last week on White Collar we had Shelley from Twin Peaks, and this week we had Bobby - I recognized that asshole swagger right off. Funny.
THAT'S WHO THAT WAS!! I knew he was very familiar, but I couldn't place him.
smonster - Jul 18, 2011 6:07:35 pm PDT #8324 of 11999
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Although I feel I must point out that "when you speak English and French, German's not that hard" is utter bullshit.
Freaking word.
Zenkitty - Jul 19, 2011 10:30:57 am PDT #8325 of 11999
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Although I feel I must point out that "when you speak English and French, German's not that hard" is utter bullshit.
Yeah, that's sad. Makes me wonder if anyone in the writer's room speaks either French or German. Speaking as a person who learned French before she learned German (and now can speak neither, alas) knowing French doesn't help you learn German.
It seemed they were implying that the character had a natural talent for picking up languages, so maybe to Charlie learning a second new language was easier because he'd already learned one? handwave
Aldis speaking French, even imperfectly, was hot, though.