Sometimes a word comes to you in a different language, yes. Swedish and Norwegian are similar. Danish is similar but sounds guttural, "like having potatoes in your mouth" is the Scandanavian joke. Anyone who knows many languages forgets words or you need to focus to think of it in a certain language, like using a rolodex in your brain. I was fortunate to learn by living in the countries which makes it much easier as you are immersed. My dad is from Norway, so he spoke Swedish and Norwegian at home sometimes. Everyone in Scandanavia and in most of Europe speaks many languages, so it's unimpressive. They need it to do business in English and communicate with neighboring countries. It's mostly Americans that don't learn other languages unless it's required, a shortcoming in schools and myopic. Many kids over there know 4 languages by age 12.
Brits are bad too.
Yes. Spanish is a necessity in some places to get hired esp. in San Diego, esp. in medicine, and in other parts of CA. People often pick a language they like the sound of, like beautiful French or Italian, or one of a country they want in to visit. Pacific Rim languages are good for business + are required in many Masters programs in International Relations, like in Monterey, CA.
What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages? Trilingual. What do you call a person who speaks 2 languages? Bilingual. What do you call a person who speaks one language? An American
Hey, just think in a combat zone, A few words of Viet, a few of French, and a few of Latin
I believe Zeede was trying to clarify that Sonerai was saying most search and rescue missions are carried out by the military, because your subsequent comment of "Or 'search + rescue' like people getting lost in a heavy wooded or mountainous area" appears to assume Sonerai was saying most search and rescue missions are for the military. Hence responding with "spot-on" and your respective background seems a bit... odd? Not that anyone doubt you know what the word means.
Surely if they don't speak American they are the enemy, so just ... wave a big weapon at them?
They did NOT speak Chinese on Firefly. I love the show but every time they try and speak Chinese it makes me want to hurt someone.
Well, there are several versions of 'Chinese' so it would depend which one they were using.
. (Last year in Spain I was trying to show willing and order refreshments in Spanish and was asked to use English instead )
The “need English subtitles” version
They were trying to speak Mandarin. At least, when it didn't sound like some kind of garbled mess.Well, there are several versions of 'Chinese' so it would depend which one they were using.
And in a few centuries time I'd think the Galactic Language would probably have evolved from today's, let's say, Mandarin.
But given Firefly's satirical edge having 'Americans' mangling a non-English language might have been deliberate
I guess the network cancelled the series because they got so many complaints about it from US Chinese.
Well, the subtitles usually say "Speaks Galactic language". (A lot of the time they are obviously just swearing anyway, so it's instead of a bleep.)