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07 January 2006, 01:08 PM
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Not the big organisation. My house over the last two weeks.
We've had Sister In Law (Mongolian but naturalised Italian) and Brother In Law (Italian) from Italy, plus their friends, Husband (Lithuanian), Wife (Mongolian) and Son (mix of the two, but born and living in Austria), who are all naturalised Austrians. Are you with me so far?
I speak with my wife in English, BIL in English. SIL doesn't speak English, so we get by in pidgin PortugItalian. I have to speak with H and W in Russian, and son in German (ahahahaha, last time I spoke German was 20 years ago!). BIL speaks with H and W in German (his mother is Austrian), SIL speaks with H in German and W and S in Mongolian.
And when we went out to a Thai restaurant we had to translate all the menu for them from Portuguese.
By the time they leave tomorrow I'll be able to say one sentence using words from five languages, and even I won't have a clue what I just said
Still, I suppose that if they don't like it here they can **** off back to where they came from
We've had Sister In Law (Mongolian but naturalised Italian) and Brother In Law (Italian) from Italy, plus their friends, Husband (Lithuanian), Wife (Mongolian) and Son (mix of the two, but born and living in Austria), who are all naturalised Austrians. Are you with me so far?
I speak with my wife in English, BIL in English. SIL doesn't speak English, so we get by in pidgin PortugItalian. I have to speak with H and W in Russian, and son in German (ahahahaha, last time I spoke German was 20 years ago!). BIL speaks with H and W in German (his mother is Austrian), SIL speaks with H in German and W and S in Mongolian.
And when we went out to a Thai restaurant we had to translate all the menu for them from Portuguese.
By the time they leave tomorrow I'll be able to say one sentence using words from five languages, and even I won't have a clue what I just said
Still, I suppose that if they don't like it here they can **** off back to where they came from
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Originally Posted by scoobychick
At least none of them are from Yorkshire. I have to translate my Yorkshireman boyfriend's English into 'sarf east speak' for all my rellies 
08 January 2006, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Brendan Hughes
Not the big organisation. My house over the last two weeks.
We've had Sister In Law (Mongolian but naturalised Italian) and Brother In Law (Italian) from Italy, plus their friends, Husband (Lithuanian), Wife (Mongolian) and Son (mix of the two, but born and living in Austria), who are all naturalised Austrians. Are you with me so far?
I speak with my wife in English, BIL in English. SIL doesn't speak English, so we get by in pidgin PortugItalian. I have to speak with H and W in Russian, and son in German (ahahahaha, last time I spoke German was 20 years ago!). BIL speaks with H and W in German (his mother is Austrian), SIL speaks with H in German and W and S in Mongolian.
And when we went out to a Thai restaurant we had to translate all the menu for them from Portuguese.
By the time they leave tomorrow I'll be able to say one sentence using words from five languages, and even I won't have a clue what I just said
Still, I suppose that if they don't like it here they can **** off back to where they came from
We've had Sister In Law (Mongolian but naturalised Italian) and Brother In Law (Italian) from Italy, plus their friends, Husband (Lithuanian), Wife (Mongolian) and Son (mix of the two, but born and living in Austria), who are all naturalised Austrians. Are you with me so far?
I speak with my wife in English, BIL in English. SIL doesn't speak English, so we get by in pidgin PortugItalian. I have to speak with H and W in Russian, and son in German (ahahahaha, last time I spoke German was 20 years ago!). BIL speaks with H and W in German (his mother is Austrian), SIL speaks with H in German and W and S in Mongolian.
And when we went out to a Thai restaurant we had to translate all the menu for them from Portuguese.
By the time they leave tomorrow I'll be able to say one sentence using words from five languages, and even I won't have a clue what I just said
Still, I suppose that if they don't like it here they can **** off back to where they came from
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