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Basil Jet[_4_] · January 11th 17, 02:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2017\01\11 15:24, d wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:34:25 -0000
"tim..." wrote:
wrote in message news
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:55:46 -0000
"tim..." wrote:
Political ideal - and I didn't believe that they would be prepared to
spend
the effort to give me the information if I asked them (I actually had this
conversation with one of the canvassers in the town centre, and he agreed
with me - that they wouldn't find it worth their while to translate all
their literate into English for the small number of voters in the
constituency)

If you're living in a foreign country you should learn the language and
not
expect the locals to translate their literature into your language because
you're too lazy to learn theirs.

Some people are just no good at learning foreign languages

after 200 hours (and that is a lot) of lessons I was still finding spoken
German incomprehensible

To be fair I found german hard too. French was a lot easier and I managed to
get myself up to a basic conversational level just by teaching myself on the
tube ride in the mornings. Perhaps you should have picked a different country
to live in?

Amazing. I loved German but hated French. French isn't even a language,
its just a load of nasal sounds blurred into each other. French
keyboards have a big apostrophe bar where the space bar should be.