The Brits and Irish are fed up. Not sure what the Scottish are up to.

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  • ColonelKorn
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2024
    • 284

    #16
    Which AI are you using to learn Italian? I'm learning Spanish at the moment for a trip to Uruguay and Argentina next month. I'm mostly fluent in Russian already, but may want to brush up on that as well

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    • Sanders
      Moderator
      • Oct 2024
      • 1639

      #17
      Originally posted by aviator
      Being able to speak Spanish down here is a plus, even my lawyer, a French born Jewish guy learned Spanish, My daughter got her job as an OR nurse because she spoke Spanish and was able to communicate with patients, my middle son never spoke much Spanish until he started his business and the oldest one can also do fairly well, he just got interviewed last week on a SpanishTV network and I mean he got the point across, not perfect but good enough. My grandchildren don't understand Spanish though. It's always been my believe that the original language gets lost by the third generation. English is one of the easiest languages to learn and speak. I'm trying to get my Italian up to date by using Artificial Intelligence and having conversations with a computer.
      For a graduation gift when my daughter graduated paramedic school, we gave her a Bluetooth type ear bud device that translates a whole bunch of languages into English. She's used it so far to communicate with someone speaking French, Swahili, Vietnamese, and of course, lots of Spanish. The ambulance services should have these devices on every crew. Or, just tell them if they can't speak English, they're gonna die.

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      • 4thIDvet
        Slug
        • Oct 2024
        • 1866

        #18
        I speak a bit of Spanish and can swear at someone in Hungarian. But my guess with all the tech coming out lately about translation devices that are small simple and easily carried? Well as Sanders is mentioning we are soon going to get devices that will automatically translate in any language in the world back to us in English.
        Oh I know their is already some out their but different languages will be a barrier of the past and the whole world will be able to communicate with each other.

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        • Retvet
          Moderator
          • Oct 2024
          • 597

          #19
          It's called black fatigue. The world has had its fill of everyone from Africa and the middle east.

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          • aviator
            Administrator
            • Oct 2024
            • 2385

            #20
            Originally posted by ColonelKorn
            Which AI are you using to learn Italian? I'm learning Spanish at the moment for a trip to Uruguay and Argentina next month. I'm mostly fluent in Russian already, but may want to brush up on that as well
            Gemini from Google. That is the one my son introduced to the school system, and he helped Google folks fine tune it for education.

            Uruguay and Argentina have their own dialect sort of so, they don't speak Galician Spanish, if you are a native speaker yes you'll understand but it may be confusing, also there is a lot of Italian mixed in.
            Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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            • ColonelKorn
              ColonelKorn commented
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              I refused to take Spanish in school because we didn't have a native speaker. Russian I learned from a woman from Moscow after giving up on the crappiest methods like Rosetta Stone. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with AI
          • aviator
            Administrator
            • Oct 2024
            • 2385

            #21
            Originally posted by 4thIDvet
            I speak a bit of Spanish and can swear at someone in Hungarian. But my guess with all the tech coming out lately about translation devices that are small simple and easily carried? Well as Sanders is mentioning we are soon going to get devices that will automatically translate in any language in the world back to us in English.
            Oh I know their is already some out their but different languages will be a barrier of the past and the whole world will be able to communicate with each other.
            Que pasa my friend ? you speak enough Spanish to get by, at least you won't go hungry in a Spanish country.
            Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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            • Retvet
              Moderator
              • Oct 2024
              • 597

              #22
              Rosetta Stone is shit. My daughter used it for Portuguese. Her laptop crashed and I had a hell of a time getting the makers of that software to authorize uploading it on her new one without having to buy it again.

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              • Sanders
                Moderator
                • Oct 2024
                • 1639

                #23
                Deport them all.

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                • Johnny
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2024
                  • 713

                  #24
                  My county has an "ICE prison". Just this year we've had 4 protests. Our county sheriff has handled each of them masterfully.

                  The latest one was this weekend. He refused to deploy deputies. The protesters spent 3 hours hollering at chain link fences, dirt roads, mosquitoes, and pine trees. Without an audience, the protesters had no one to hear their cries of anguish. Instead; they were met with deaf ears.

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                  • Johnny
                    Senior Member
                    • Oct 2024
                    • 713

                    #25
                    Originally posted by Sanders
                    Deport them all.

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                    Arabs hate dogs. That's no exaggeration. Here in the States, we all LOVE dogs. They're part of the family: gentle, loyal, loving animals who will do anything to make you happy. In Arab culture dogs are seen kinda like rats. They hate them.

                    I served in Iraq 2007-8. Whenever combat stress dogs visited our units, the Arab contractors and terps would back away like somebody just rolled a live hand grenade into the room. They hated dogs. That's one of the many reasons I hate THEM. I realize these are demons brought back with me from Iraq. For that reason, whenever I encounter an Arab, I go out of my way to be kind, gracious and friendly. It's not easy, buy I endeavor to take the higher road.

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                    • Retvet
                      Moderator
                      • Oct 2024
                      • 597

                      #26
                      When it comes to sand niqqers, fuck the high road. I'd just assume see every last one of them dead.

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                      • Sanders
                        Moderator
                        • Oct 2024
                        • 1639

                        #27
                        Originally posted by Retvet
                        When it comes to sand niqqers, fuck the high road. I'd just assume see every last one of them dead.
                        The high road goes no where but down.

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                        • GARANDNUT
                          Senior Member
                          • Oct 2024
                          • 374

                          #28
                          The Europeans will do nothing. Oh they might protest a little but in the end they will slink back into the pubs and drink while obsessing about soccer until they forget they are conquered. It is the way it has always been and will continue so.

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