We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you tried using it?

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  • Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I did and the results were kinda hilarious.

    I was working as a technician at the time and went to a theater I wasn’t familiar with, I needed to use the bathroom and saw a few people cleaning so I asked them if the knew where the bathroom was.

    “No ingles, no ingles!”

    Oh good I can try my Spanish! “Donde estas el bano?”

    “No ingles, no ingles!”

    …but I’m speaking Spanish now… Lol

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    • psoul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the hardest part of gaining conversational skills: being ok with not being understood, ok being laughed at a little bit. If you’re afraid of speaking the language you’ll never progress.

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• mr_might44@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I took one of my country’s official languages in high school and I still speak it like shit …

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  • RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Belgian person?

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    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or Swiss, it sounds very familiar. My French sucks. I did get DELF B2 level at the time, but damn do I struggle when I need to work in Lausanne with locals.

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• TipRing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I took German in school, then moved to Germany and gained (rudimentary) fluency, then moved back to the US and lost it after a couple decades of disuse.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Mexican Americans…take Spanish in school…and get a B”

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They wouldn’t let me take foreign language classes because my English grades weren’t good enough. It wasn’t that I was even bad. I just didn’t do homework.

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• stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  haven’t seen a potc ref in a long time

  nice to see you, Jack sparrow

  also this is so relatable I majored in stocks and finance and I have no idea what I learned but I still don’t know shit about stocks or finance. only that if I don’t pay my taxes people gonna come and take my stuff

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I studied French for six semesters. I kept failing.

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• El_guapazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  US high schools will graduate students with missing elective credits. They won’t allow a falling grade from that rite of passage. Administrators have the power to change a grade in spite of a teacher’s documentation

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I read a book going over chagatai tili in highschool for fun.

  I remember absolutely 0 words or grammar.

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve had French and German for 13 years. I don’t speak a word of French and can say very basic things in German, but not complete sentences.

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  • Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Was hast du dann die 13 Jahre lang gemacht? Däumchen gedreht?

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    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nie Hausaufgaben gemacht. Wirklich, ich habe Deepl benutzt, um das ins Deutsche zu übersetzen.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  4 years of Latin. I do not know Latin. I do know quite a bit of Roman history though

  I took it upon myself to learn Spanish for 2 and a half years, and I can say I speak Spanish! Not perfectly. But I read novels and watch things in Spanish. My speaking isn’t quite as good, by virtue of me listening way more than I speak. But hey I think I did pretty well.

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• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I took one semester of Russian in uni and I still can read the Cyrillic alphabet

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  • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same.

    I can also order tea with milk on an airplane.

    That’s about it, though.

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• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Joke’s on you. I can do both those accents.

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