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| shmoogle Member Since: 07 Sep 2005 Location: ... and for every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! Posts: 24350  
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POETS day |
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Fri Mar 07 2008 9:20am |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476 
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Yes, I'm really attending school at the moment, 5 days a week 3 hours a day learning German....................... gawd it's heavy going sitting in a classroom with 25 spotty 15 year-olds! But I'm the centre of attraction for being the only pupil with a car! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Fri Mar 07 2008 9:25am |
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| Steve in germany Member Since: 15 Nov 2007 Location: Bad Lippspringe Germany Posts: 980 
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Hey Tim, do you want me to set you up with a exchange student |
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Fri Mar 07 2008 9:27am |
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| shmoogle Member Since: 07 Sep 2005 Location: ... and for every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! Posts: 24350
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They sent you to a school to learn German?!!! Is there not an adult education way of doing it? |
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Fri Mar 07 2008 9:28am |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476
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Yes, I'm doing German lessons a couple of evenings a week with a private tutor from the Gothe Institute in Glasgow.......... and very nice she is too! They recommended sitting in on lessons in the local school for a couple of weeks but it isn't the sort of German I need to be able to speak - I need a quicker course than an O-level course so won't be going back after this week. I need conversational German with ability to read German legal documents.......... I'm learning more with 6 hours private tuition a week than in 3 hours a day at a school.
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Fri Mar 07 2008 9:59am |
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| shmoogle Member Since: 07 Sep 2005 Location: ... and for every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! Posts: 24350
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I can imagine mate.... I thought they might have put you through a "bootcamp" course. When I worked for a management consultancy, they used to fire consultants off all around the world and sometimes places where the client didn't speak English. They had this setup where they'd push you through these intensive courses of the languages you needed to gain a grasp of - they had an external company do it, forget what they were called. Are you finding it easy to get on with? I found German a lot easier to learn than French, for example. |
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Fri Mar 07 2008 10:15am |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476
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German is a lot easier than French, just pronouncing some of those mega long words can be a problem............... makes you realise what a lazy language English is.
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Fri Mar 07 2008 10:42am |
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| shmoogle Member Since: 07 Sep 2005 Location: ... and for every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! Posts: 24350
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You get your fill of accented characters from the charmap utility - just go Start/Run/charmap and bingo.
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Fri Mar 07 2008 10:56am |
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| Steve in germany Member Since: 15 Nov 2007 Location: Bad Lippspringe Germany Posts: 980
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Yes you will find with German that they just join up 2 or 3 words just to make 1, good luck |
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Fri Mar 07 2008 1:00pm |
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| Steve in germany Member Since: 15 Nov 2007 Location: Bad Lippspringe Germany Posts: 980
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Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, bit of homework for you! Speed Limits! not where I live!
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Fri Mar 07 2008 1:06pm |
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| shmoogle Member Since: 07 Sep 2005 Location: ... and for every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! Posts: 24350
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Crazy Germans!  
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Fri Mar 07 2008 1:10pm |
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| Steve in germany Member Since: 15 Nov 2007 Location: Bad Lippspringe Germany Posts: 980
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But do you know what it means, and you can't use babel fish, i don't think it would handle it anyway. Speed Limits! not where I live!
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Fri Mar 07 2008 1:14pm |
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| shmoogle Member Since: 07 Sep 2005 Location: ... and for every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! Posts: 24350
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I did try it in Google Translate but it came out with some of the usual gibberish... that Wikipedia page said something about it being to do with Beef Labelling or something equally exciting |
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Fri Mar 07 2008 1:17pm |
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