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| dizzycloud Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6598 days ago 88 posts - 109 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Turkish | Message 33 of 57 12 March 2007 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday I was at work (I work in a big (food) supermarket on Checkouts) and this French couple got into my queue, and when I came to serve them I said "hello, how are you?" and they replied "fine thanks" and then the girl turned to her husband and said "bah il est un peu feminin!" [well he's a bit feminine!] and I didn't say anything incase they decided to say anything else about me, but turns out they didn't so I wish I'd have said "oui je sais :)" [yeah I know :)]!!!!! The look on their face would've been priceless! Ah well :P
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6865 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 34 of 57 31 March 2007 at 10:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't anything happen to me personally. However, my great-uncle was a British army interpreter during World War II, and was near native fluent in French. Maybe 10 years after the war him and some of our family members were driving in Europe and there was an accident with some French speakers. They drove to the garage together, and my great-uncle stayed quiet, until he overheard them saying in French that they were going to blame my family. At that point, my great-uncle let them know he spoke French, and their plan failed ;)
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| aaapple Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6451 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 35 of 57 04 April 2007 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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dizzycloud: "oui je sais"/ Try "oui, je le sais."
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| victor Tetraglot Moderator United States Joined 7318 days ago 1098 posts - 1056 votes 6 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, FrenchC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 36 of 57 20 April 2007 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm not a native speaker either, but I don't see a problem with "oui, je sais". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dizzycloud Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6598 days ago 88 posts - 109 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Turkish | Message 37 of 57 27 April 2007 at 3:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I thought it was fine! thanks lol
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| iieee Groupie United States dreaminginturkish.bl Joined 6587 days ago 78 posts - 80 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, German | Message 38 of 57 27 April 2007 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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My brother's girlfriend is from Argentina so she speaks Spanish fluently but is from European stock. She has had quite a few experiences like this.
One time we were in a fast food restaurant and she ordered fries, and she saw that some fresh ones were coming out right then. She requested that she get the fresh ones. When they called our number and we were picking up our trays, one employee said to the other one something like "haha I totally gave her the stale fries". Edited by iieee on 27 April 2007 at 5:02pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Louis Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5730 days ago 92 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish | Message 39 of 57 11 May 2009 at 9:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm bumping this thread because it gave me a good laugh. Anyway, my story is that I was at work and just ringing at the registers. I'm a pretty frail guy at 16 years old, and these two dark-skinned girls come up speaking very, very rapid Spanish. Little did they know I was quite conversant in Spanish, and familiar with Latin American slang. One of the girls said "Mira esta pinche pinocha" and I knew, right away, what she said. I smiled like the dumb gringo I am, but couldn't say anything witty back because I knew I'd get fired. Ah well. At least I bulked up, recently. Needless to say, I receive more endearing comments from the opposite gender. ^_^
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| eoinda Tetraglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5948 days ago 101 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Spanish, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 40 of 57 11 May 2009 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Funny tread!
My father lived in Singapore for a while and had previously studied some (very little) mandarin. He was on a business meeting and one of the Chinese said something about the damn foreigners in mandarin. Dad didn't really understand but he caught some words and in the end of the meeting he said goodbye in mandarin. They were really embarrassed and they couldn't be sure he wasn't quite fluent :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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