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tim... · August 30th 17, 11:45 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:19:24 +0200
"tim..." wrote:
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I'm very disappointed that you can't understand enough French to deal
with such everyday things. Another shameful British habit.

I seem to have an inherent inability to remember more than 1 foreign
language

having (in chronological order) spent 2 years learning Italian, 6 years
learning German and 1 year in Sweden since I left school, 40 years ago

I have lost all ability that I had to communicate in French

As someone who can get by in French I always found written Italian
similar
enough to understand at least some of it (spoken italian is another
matter, I can barely understand a word) so I'm surprised the reverse
isn't
true.

Indeed It is even more so, both written and spoken, with Italian and
Portuguese (and for all I know Spanish). One just has to know the
different
spelling reforms and go by the sounds.

Italian and Spanish are much closer than Italian and French

I have never studied Spanish at all, yet I can read it almost as well as I
can German (which you will recall I banged my head against a wall for 6
years trying to learn)

tim