You crazy Finns and your coats of arms...

[hypatias mom]

That's a pretty good start, si quieres estar boracho (if you want to be drunk).

[Liam conToketi]

It goes well with: donde esta mis pantalones...?

[hypatias mom]

Pretty close--Donde estan mis pantalones? The verb needs to agree with the object. I'm afraid I can't properly type the punctuation. (in Spanish you put the question mark or exclamation point upside down at the beginning to give notice of the type of sentence, and then again at the end.)

[Kaiser Mors V]

Ey! No es bueno! Mis Pantelones estan en fuego!

(forgive the spelling.. it's been 6 years...)

[hypatias mom]

Tu espanol esta bien. Para mi has sido casi cuarenta anos.

[Kaiser Mors V]

something about "my" spanish being good.. but you's..something things.. years... hehehe

[Liam conToketi]

Again, I don't speak much spanish. I speak about as much of it as I speak Bulgarian at the moment...

[hypatias mom]

I said, "Your Spanish is good. For me it has been almost forty years."

[Kaiser Mors V]

yes... forty.. I should have seen that one...

Assumed the meaning of the sentence was something like that due to context..

[Maksym Hadjimehmetov]

Trying to combat our German thread, eh?

[Icebreaker]

Seriously though, the fact remains that English is not my first language and, since I'm no genius with languages (unlike some people in this nation), I make mistakes like that more often than I'd like to... so I actually do really appreciate it when you notify me of them

What's funny is, his spoken English is currently better than his Finnish.

[Kaiser Mors V]

Are you serious? He always said his spoken english wasn't very good.

[Ari Rahikkala]

I don't think Ice is really the right person to evaluate my spoken Finnish. Yes, there was that one... incident... but that doesn't really prove anything, does it?

[Liam conToketi]

Trying to combat our German thread, eh?

Meh, I participated in both...

[Icebreaker]

Yes, there was that one... incident...

See: lulz

[Maksym Hadjimehmetov]

Look, why not just start a new board simply for foreign language discussions? Finnish, German, Russian, whatever?

[benkern]

'cause there'd be t and I don't think it'd be worth the forum space. :P

[Jacobus Loki]

I think it's a courtesy to at least try to learn a few words in the language of wherever you are.

I stumbled across a few phrases in the local dialect in Aruba, and got better, faster service than the tourists around me. Especially the ones who are convinced that if you speak English LOUD ENOUGH everyone who doesn't understand is out to get you.

It's a neat language, mixture of Spanish/Netherlandish/French/English. If you speak English, and have a smattering of Romance languages, you won't go hingry, and can even read the local paper.

And Ari's English is superb. Better than mine, anyway. Always has been, based on my recollection.

[Maksym Hadjimehmetov]

Yeah, Ari has a better grasp of English than many native speakers I know lol

I think it's a courtesy to at least try to learn a few words in the language of wherever you are.

Well said!