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The Hawk
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Not surprised; I went on the Keighley & Worth Valley railway on Friday and fire watchers were dotted along the whole route, with clear evidence that there had been several recent lineside fires.
staffordjas
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After vowing never to fly again after our latest flight a few weeks ago....just booked our first ever holiday to Portugal 
Normally get by on my holidays using my German, French and limited Spanish, but this time going to be out of my comfort zone not knowing a word of Portugese.
App now installed on my phone, going to give it a good bash at teaching myself enough Portugese to at least order the beers and ask where the loos are .
Normally get by on my holidays using my German, French and limited Spanish, but this time going to be out of my comfort zone not knowing a word of Portugese.
App now installed on my phone, going to give it a good bash at teaching myself enough Portugese to at least order the beers and ask where the loos are .
Perrier
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We await progess
Lol .
Well ,the electrician turned up and the summerhouse now has electric
Viking garden buildings came to sort my shed base too ( sorry @Tilly no longboat
)As for the security cam at the side of the house , ive decided to fit a wireless PIR camera myself as its only for the pathway and gate / summerhouse security.
The electrician did a great job and cleaned up afterwards , everything tested and certified .... best of all she knocked £30 off the bill as i'd dug out the trench myself
..all back to normal now and looks like nothing ever happened
Thehooperman
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That happens in most European countries to be honest. I can never work out whether it's because our linguistic skills are so poor or whether the recipient is just trying out their English.
I once pulled a German girl in Passau and until then I thought my German was quite passable until her mate told me I spoke like the policeman from Hello Hello
Thehooperman
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Had this view whilst having breakfast this morning en route back from cottage.
Really great breakfast but not sure about the laver bread with cockles on a full Welsh fry up.
Still try any food once.
Really great breakfast but not sure about the laver bread with cockles on a full Welsh fry up.
Still try any food once.
Lucy
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Less so in Spain, but then we do purposely go to a resort that isn't very 'English'.That happens in most European countries to be honest. I can never work out whether it's because our linguistic skills are so poor or whether the recipient is just trying out their English.
I once pulled a German girl in Passau and until then I thought my German was quite passable until her mate told me I spoke like the policeman from Hello Hello
Thehooperman
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Gramaisc
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There's not many in Brazil - mostly in the western Andes, so the Spanish term is usually used..
darben
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. @staffordjas Yes! I went to Portugal for the first time this year & tried my best to speak a bit & was normally met with can you speak in English please it’s easier to understand you. People are really lovely, as in any language the pleasantries are well received - please & thank you and the like - I really like the way they say thank you - obrigada if you’re a woman, obrigado if you’re a bloke although I noticed the locals seemed just to say obrigad to each other
staffordjas
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I like to know at least a bit, we could have done with knowing a lot more Spanish in an emergency visit to a Spanish 'local ' hospital a couple of years ago. No one there spoke a word of english , my limited spanish didnt get us anywhere, but luckily found a member of staff that I could converse with in French.
Going to have to say ''we" for everything in Portugal. For some reason my mouth is having difficulty in saying the "eu" for "I"
Most important word already installed in my head.. 'cerveja'
Withnail
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Accent - that's what's missing, it's even missing from the ^above - it should be 'Allo 'Allo. That's part of the point.... her mate told me I spoke like the policeman from Hello Hello
It's one thing to know what the words are, another to know how they should sound.
In all the Wenger appreciation that went on at the end of the season, i was surprised that no one mentioned the fact that in all the years he spent talking English, he never managed to sound anything other than very French.
Try speaking Spanish in something approaching a Scouse accent, but go guttural Scot whenever there is a 'j' with a 'ch' as in 'loch'.
Don't even try with Portuguese - they nasalise and you will find that very difficult to do.
Actually you will find it almost impossible to do unless you try very hard - even something simple like 'bom dia', the 'm' needs to sort of 'half' come out of your nose -
Écoute et répète - 'bom(n)' bom(n)' 'bom(n)'
Nobody knows why they insist on this madness.
staffordjas
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Glad you said that, don't feel quite so hopeless not being able to get the exact sound on a few words now. Although being stuffed up with a cold at the moment is helping a lot . (Hubbys strong West Brom accent , trying to correct what he can hear me repeating after the portugese tutor, isn't helping matters in the slightest!)
A Spanish person once told me they understand the Scots 'english' much better than the English persons 'english' (That was the time that I couldn't understand the Scot ...)
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