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[fe2_o3]

   If I had gone there, I would have been disappointed also. But I am impressed with anyone who can speak 2 languages. I can't even spell bilingual and you are one...Cable

[Le Mirage]

Thank you....I'm not bilingual. I try simply. However, my wife speaks french, english and spanish. I'm very impressed by his facility to learn a language. Never I will be «in trouble» with my wife 

We plan to be «full timer» in a couple of years with our Prevost «in progress» and passing winter in the south (Az, Ca, Tx)

[fe2_o3]

  Whether you are bilingual or not, you are doing a good job of communicating in a foreign tongue. I tried to speak German to a friend one time. I don't know what I said, but she never spoke to me again. You're doing good.
   When you are full time, I hope we meet on the road somewhere.    ...Cable

[rv_safetyman]

OK, I can't pass on this story.  We had a German exchange daughter and each night I would say to her:  gute nacht (thinking I was saying good night).  Well, after several days she said to me in her perfect English that I was telling her good naked!!  From what she tells me, verbally it sounds the same except for the pronunciation. 

We see her often (she and her family will be over this summer) and each time I ask her to tell me the difference and I still can't tell one from another.

Jim

[Jeremy]

Scrubs All German Scenes

[Busted Knuckle]

We have a certain female french canadian member her on the board who's name I won't tell. But her boyfriend and her were at her parents and he told her he wanted to tell her father "Good morning, how are you today sir?"

And I don't remember the whole phrase she told him, but I do remember that part of it was "le petite."
As soon as I heard the phrase I said "tell me you didn't!, and he didn't repeat it!"
She asked me do you speak french?

And I told her "No but even big ol' red neck country boy like me knows the word petite is small or little!"

She laughed and yes the phrase he said to her dad was "Sir you have a small pecker"
and to make things worse the dad was horrified and asked him "what did you say?"
And he repeated it and when the dad told him "No, no, no!" He kept insisting and repeating what she'd told him! LOL!

I know if my girlfriend did that to me. we'd be single again!
  BK 

[ktmossman]

When I was in Honduras, we had a lady from the US come down for a while, kind of the old spinster type.  She tried SO hard to learn Spanish but it was just not working.  One day, we had been in a meeting all morning and there were 20 or so people around this conference table.  As noon approached, someone asked if anyone was hungry.  So this lady, always looking to practice, decided to answer in Spanish.  She intended to say, "yo tengo hambre" (literally, "I have hunger" ~ "I'm hungry"), what she said was, "yo tengo hombre" ("I have a man.")  Everyone in the room lost it...