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rhy maresh (goldenhelm) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2018-03-04 19:02:00

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Do the people in these ports generally speak ~~High~~ English, or do they have their own?

And while I'm on that note, how many languages are spoken amongst the people on this ship? I'd like to learn at least one of them in the time I'm here.

ALUCARD EMERY

I'm fairly confident I'm going to win the bet.

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	goldenhelm 2018-03-05 07:14 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! The man below said he speaks Russian, and was willing to teach me. I'll put those two at the top of my list for now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2018-03-05 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	It's one of the ones I know on paper, but it's not familiar enough to lipread and I'm not too sure about the pronunciation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goldenhelm 2018-03-05 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	Would you like to learn along with me? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2018-03-05 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	Problematic, given I can't hear anything. It took a long while to manage the ones I have. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	goldenhelm 2018-03-06 03:29 am UTC (link)
	There's nothing wrong with learning slow. But if you don't have an interest, I won't be insulted. Is the other language - the sign one - one of the languages that isn't spoken, then? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ashtawawidiwin
2018-03-06 03:36 am UTC (link)

It's not so much slow as incredibly tedious to learn to pronounce things you can't hear. Aside from English the ones I can actually speak have a fairly predictable system of sounds but I still get things wrong. And learning to lipread a language that you aren't instinctively fluent in is very difficult as well. Reading and writing, that's just a matter of understanding the grammar and learning the vocabulary.

Non-verbal, yes. Hand shapes, positions, and movements, and facial expressions often add nuance.

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	goldenhelm 2018-03-06 03:38 am UTC (link)
	I can understand that. Well [...] I can't really, but I'm doing my best to imagine. Fascinating. I'm very excited to learn that one. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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