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@oliphant@oliphant.social My favorite joke: what do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks 1 language? American.
@rayhayes I taught it for 22 years in high school. Now teaching to adults. I much prefer adults. I have a few really rusty languages, too. @oliphant@oliphant.social
@AlliFlowers @oliphant It was actually a lot of fun studying existentialism in French. Reading Camus.
@rayhayes And poetry! @oliphant@oliphant.social
@oliphant @AlliFlowers or British
@jimothy The Brits are still better about languages, it’s just that their accents are so awful. 😂(At least in French.) @oliphant@oliphant.social
@AlliFlowers @oliphant Unless you started French in parochial school and kept it up all through high school. Rusty but still OK.