I always try my best when I'm on business mate, to learn a few words, but English is the language of business, for now anyway. We've already won at life by being born English, that's some quote, not verbatim, that I read the other day. I'm not going to feel sorry for those who have to learn something to get by in life. I've got more important things to bother myself with, such as seeing if I can flick this old stack of business cards in my office bin from across the room, the Romanian cleaner will be along in a bit to pick the ones up that've missed
The first part is true. The second part is not true. He's a great footballer but he's still a scouser. When he leaves, he won't be in my hall of fame with Eric and Paul.
Absolutely spot on! I feel very lazy and try to make a little effort when I'm abroad - I will always try to learn basics when going anywhere so I don;t seem like an ignorant tourist (sarcasm in my last post) - as for sky employing these pricks that are lazy! Christ I shudder when I hear it on TV - I don;t like it in everyday life when someone says "somefink like" etc like you say but a number of these are not paid huge salaries by people subscribing to Sky!
When I first went to Germany I could speak German quite well but after living there for a long time I can now speak it much weller.
I'm one of the few Sunderland fans that doesn't actually have a problem with Clark. He was a cracking player for Sunderland and was a big asset in his time here. I have been told exactly what happened with the t-shirt incident by somebody who was involved in it and I don't hold it against him. He was class and always gave 100% for us, which nobody can deny.
I'm one of the lots that has. He's a scrawny, spotty, acne, pock marked bastard that looks like he's got syphilis. If he croaked tonight I'd laugh & get pissed.
depends on your hobby, non, mon amie? i'd say Chinese (mandarin), spanish and english the 3 main global languages for commerce. it'd be nice if us Brits could get at least one right, never mind the other 2. i'd put Arabic, French and Russian on a par. high concentrations of wealth. 'arabic' has a lot of diversity, its a bit like the Slavic languages (covering a number of geographically grouped countries but each with their own version) but not as widely spoken as French. at least that is my understanding of it having lived out in the gulf. for gulf arabs, where the money is, they all speak English anyway - esp. the ones with the dosh being privately educated, primarily in England or the US. for the rest, why bother - Uzbeki Arabic, anyone? i speak a bit German, Spanish, Finnish, Czech and Arabic..... the tiniest amount possible! two of my sisters bagged the languages in our crew: 5 and 4 each. me and another took art, math, science n sport....the others went into sales!!
I guess it depends on what industry you're in. For educational purposes, displaying the aptitude to learn Mandarin is a lot different to showing an ability to learn German in my opinion. The possibilities of employment in this country as an Arabic linguist are way beyond those available to people who speak German fluently.
