tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post6110809505801237466..comments2024-03-28T18:34:03.426-04:00Comments on Working Pictures: Demonstrations, Part TwoCarl Weesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-58000458056048953492017-06-12T16:26:23.294-04:002017-06-12T16:26:23.294-04:00Many of the smaller European countries are really ...Many of the smaller European countries are really really good with foreign languages - like The Netherlands for example. <br /><br />In Germany we always had dubbed TV and movies, which doesn't really help, unlike other countries where you are used from childhood on to watch the original version of Star Trek - for example.<br /><br />In case of languages I don't really count since my subjects at university had been Indian languages, Iranian languages and Islamic languages - in the end I might be able to order a coffee in perhaps five or six languages and talk about politics and physics (not really that much ;-)) in two - German and English ;-) - my French could and should be much better than it is due to my French teacher at high school whom I really didn't like.<br /><br />Reading - some more - most of them are dead languages, though ;-) <br /><br />University is a long time ago and I never worked in that field.Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771625000856319335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-85094021673820715942017-06-11T17:59:26.580-04:002017-06-11T17:59:26.580-04:00Martina,
First, at least in this microcosm, the d...Martina,<br /><br />First, at least in this microcosm, the decent people outnumbered the haters 3:1.<br /><br />Thank you for the translation, which is certainly surprising because the man doesn't look like anything one expects an American muslim to look like. Which may have been his point. I didn't speak to him because I was making this pictures while everyone, including him, was listening to speakers.<br /><br />And you can read Arabic? How many languages do you read/speak, even if rusty? Americans—me— are language challenged, for the most part, compared to Europeans, and let's not even bring up how many languages a health care worker from Ghana is comfortable with while working as a 24-hour caregiver to elderly people in the U.S.<br /><br />Carl Weesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291898089206705608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-26773895307615830272017-06-11T15:54:19.287-04:002017-06-11T15:54:19.287-04:00btw on the last sign it says in Arabic: I am an Am...btw on the last sign it says in Arabic: I am an American and a muslim.<br /><br />dislaimer: my Arabic is really rusty - so take this with a grain of salt.Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771625000856319335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33929660.post-72321172021369025872017-06-11T15:51:34.241-04:002017-06-11T15:51:34.241-04:00So much like Germany in the last years :-(
So much...So much like Germany in the last years :-(<br />So much like Germany in the last years :-)<br />There will always be decent people I hope. I am sure. Somehow.Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771625000856319335noreply@blogger.com