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Ask some of the locals how to say “Stupid American” in their native language, then listen for it. You’ll be surprised how often you hear it.
I thought the same thing every time I drove through Colorado! 😉
It’s been proven by British tourists that they understand you better if you speak LOUDER 😉
German teaching tape: Die Sauerkraut ist in mein Lederhosen
Get ready for Portugal.
An accurate description of Portuguese given to me years ago by a seasoned traveler was “Like Spanish, but spoken by a Frenchman in his cups”
Whatever you do, don’t mention the war….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk
Zey speek Amerikan viz ein Jermann accent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!
Top Secret! (1984) – Memorable quotes
Hillary Flammond: I know a little German. He’s sitting over there.
British people also discover that Americans speak a foreign language.
American person: “oh you’re from Britain? What language do you speak over there?”
(actual quotation)
I believe it was George Bernard Shaw that described Britain and the US as two nations separated by a common language.
Spent much time in the Azores. Portugese people were a loud argumentative folk. Did not like water, smoked roll-your-own, and produced some very tastey food. Nice people overall. NO FUMAR and no faj (no sweat) were the most common words I heard and understood.
Azorians speak their own brand of Portugese and frequently have little use for “mainlanders” as my grandmother used to call them.
They speak the Californian language Schwarzenegerian, or Einsteinian, stupid!
My wife (Irish) worked in Munich in a hotel some time ago.
Some of the American tourists asked question in a loud, clear, simple and slow English and even after my wife talked to them in English. My wife found it so funny.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Ein bischen?
Tell my old home boys hello for me! 😉
(Oder – Guten Tag!).
what am i going to do for entertainment steven?
and is this what we have to look forward to from our new ‘smaller government is better” congress??
GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029393-281.html
Some ISPs have been doing that for years! They claim it is to make your internet experience better. Actually it is the search engines such as Google but when I had Earthlink I knew they tracked my use and Microsoft does also. Some of it is only for quality of service reports but recent history can be traced on most any type of communications being used today.
I don’t like this at all.
But watching Obama’s approval rating going from 55 to over 70% after he promised an 80% reduction in CO2, biofuels, 1 million electric cars, a fast raiway connection to replace our aircraft and carbon trading I really think the Americans deserve him for another six years.
The GOP clearly can’t be trusted and announced they are going to work with
So the Tea Party will be the only real opposition.
It’s incredibble, you can screw up the enire country for two years and you get rewarded for being a charletan.
“It’s incredibble, you can screw up the enire country for two years and you get rewarded for being a charletan.”
yes and this process has been accumulating for some 200 years.
we are doomed.
Don’t they even speak British? I hate it when I can’t even find people speaking Australian. Sucks when they speak Canadian. Canada sucks.
;O)
Must be because Canada and the US speek the same brand english! HAHAHA!
Not even close! Unless you can find a “hoser” south of the 49th parallel. Unless you consider the ignorant americans who cannot spell Jose.
Yeah your right, Canada isn’t going all in with that CO2 path of destruction yet, Just BC and Ontario with their Liberal leftest Governments.
At least in Europe, English is a 2nd language for some. They get kinda ticked off when you assume they know English.
Greet in the native language, then ask in the native language if they speak english. It’s Just courtesy.
Oh hell no. They either speak american english or they are tools of the commie leaning EU. 🙂
Good point Layne! I found most more than willing to use their english (even when minimal or weak) in Germany. Germans are some of the friendliest people in Europe.
Plus, if you greet them in their language as you suggest, it shows that while you may not be fluent, you are at least making an effort in their country.
Americans and the British are divided by a common language
Line form the movie Snatch.
Scene in London’s West End
Cousin Avi from new York to London East Ender Bullet Tooth Tony.
“Speak English Tony. What’s Blagged? Here I am in the country that spawned the language, but no one speaks it.”
And “lauwarm” beer!
OT
record snow and cold past week in US
HAMweather
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=mintemp,lowmax,snow
Just walk around the airport lounge yelling “ischt bin ein Frankfurter” or if you really want some attention ” Mrs Merkel, tear down the climategate walls”
Them there Germans sure know how to have fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EzPkqt2Rk&feature=related
Sieht aus wie Zut von Angus Young imperonators in Lederhosen! HAHA.
More German fun – Böllerschießen! – wee….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE70Ip-vdtw&feature=related
Some Germans actually speak better English than the English! I know, I lived in London for many years.
I was waiting to catch a long-distance Eurolines bus from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (central rail station). I needed information and noticed a group of 3 uniformed bus drivers chatting in a language I just couldn’t place. Certainly not a Latin or Germanic language – maybe East European? I asked them a question in German; one of them replied in good English – with a strong Welsh accent. Of course, they had been speaking Welsh…
Frankfurter’s and their seemingly endless lack of manners!
In a bar on the North side of the river was told it was closed, even though there were at least 15 people sitting and a lot of chatter coming from the beer garden.
At the Deutches Filmmuseum tried to ask the entry fee, met with two staff just saying ‘kein Englisch’. Finally managed to pay went to go up the staircase, one of the staff who’d told us they couldn’t speak Englisch: ‘Excuse me, you cannot take your backpack inside, please use the cloakroom.’!!!