I was chatting with @LikeItOrLumpIt a little while ago & she was off to learn another language.
This got me thinking & while cruising the myriad byways of L-Space I found this quote that neatly sums up bot Nanny Oggs’ talent for languages & my own:
“Nanny had an unexpected gift for languages; she could be comprehensibly incompetent in a new one within an hour or two. What she spoke was one step away from gibberish but it was authentically foreign gibberish. And she knew that Granny Weatherwax, whatever her other qualities, had an even bigger tin ear for languages than she did for music.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
Of course my principle languages are English & very bad English !
@LikeItOrLumpIt
Fankoos 🫶🏻
(although I have a weird routine and just got up.... 😉 I was a bit earlier than planned due to noisy neighbors... But I love being awake for most of the night as it calms me... 😊) @MAJ1@weirdfolks
I studied French at ‘O’ Level not because I wanted to , but because one had to study at least one foreign language.
I can barely make myself understood in my native tongue so any foreign language stood about the same chance as a whelk in a super-nova!
After the first term my French teacher & I came to a tacit agreement - he would let me sleep thru class & I would not irrevocably destroy his self confidence by brutally abusing his language!
Not surprisingly it was the only subject I failed.
(Although I did only just graze a passing grade in maths, but thats another story 😆 )
So trust me when I say Alice that your pronunciation in any language is far better than mine! :bb: 🫶🐿️🖖