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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
My SO has a facility for language. At one point, she could overhear people speaking, and if she listened long enough, get a feel for what they were talking about, whether or not she knew the language.
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I can do that as well for western European languages. For others? Not so much...
A few days ago I was in a store, and there were three non-Dutch couples there. One Chinese, one from Poland, and one from some African country. An impression of the languages would be as follows:
"Ktching chow njow... how wa tsjang hi hao nja wheng, nje tskjang ga wohong."
"Kazarprasnitsj skrwretsjl wrstakrrtls? Eeeh... brzwarrkllitsjzsw rstrkritssjz."
"Galamelelalealle elalaa leneelae... lelelalellealalena alalelela lanwelalalenela."
I could listen for hours and not even BEGIN to make heads or tails of what they were saying.