"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.
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
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!
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.
Fred Pete - Jul 19, 2011 10:50:10 am PDT #8326 of 11999
Ann, that's a ferret.
If you know any one of Spanish, French, or Italian, learning either of the others is a little easier. (Probably true of Portguese, too, but I've never studied that one.) German, not so much.
beekaytee - Jul 19, 2011 11:03:56 am PDT #8327 of 11999
Compassionately intolerant
I studied Spanish and can understand Italian and Portuguese to a great degree, given how much I don't speak any language fluently anymore...not even English! BUT, having said that, studying French, after 5.5 years of Spanish nearly did me in. I could never get the sentence structure. SO frustrating. I thought it would be easy. NSM.
I can't even imagine finding a connection between French and German.
smonster - Jul 19, 2011 12:03:53 pm PDT #8328 of 11999
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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
It would have been more believable to talk about English/German cognates, but I guess that didn't fit the story.
I love that Covert Affairs is going to so much trouble with the languages.
I learned French, then Italian, then Romanian, then bits of Spanish. Romance languages play well together.
erikaj - Jul 19, 2011 2:42:39 pm PDT #8329 of 11999
Always Anti-fascist!
Memory plays tricks on people, is my handwave on that.
Morgana - Jul 19, 2011 4:34:39 pm PDT #8330 of 11999
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
BUT, having said that, studying French, after 5.5 years of Spanish nearly did me in. I could never get the sentence structure. SO frustrating. I thought it would be easy. NSM.
I went from 4 years of Spanish to French, and my teacher kept catching me doing my homework in Spanish. It took a while to get my brain to switch tracks. (Interestingly, my high school French teacher apparently spoke French with a German accent, so I'm told I did too -- now I don't really speak it at all.)