mate turned up today with a couple of backpackers looking for a cheap place tto pitch their tent for the night. Young lass from switzland and young lad from france. Great kids. The young lass as a phd and speaks 4 languages (I can only understand one). Got my entainment sorted for tonight
cheers
blaze
jules47 said
06:57 PM Feb 4, 2015
Enjoy the company blaze!!
Cruising Cruze said
08:37 PM Feb 4, 2015
It's nothing special to speak 3 or 4 languages or even more in Europe
most people speak more than one
John
blaze said
09:22 PM Feb 4, 2015
Cruising Cruze wrote:
It's nothing special to speak 3 or 4 languages or even more in Europe most people speak more than one
John
Well aware of that, I was duty manager at the biggest back packers in Broome for nearly 12 months and rest assured most are only bilingual and most also have a degree of some sort.
cheers\blaze
TechnoGypsy said
09:31 PM Feb 4, 2015
Once they have been here for awhile = most go away with another language under their belt = BAD ENGLISH
Cruising Cruze said
10:07 PM Feb 4, 2015
that's the first thing we learned Robert when we came here 30 years ago
being a baker by trade what trouble I had with onces and pounds
But we still thank the Lord each day that we came here
Cheers John
-- Edited by Cruising Cruze on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 10:47:32 PM
Bruce and Bev said
11:25 AM Feb 5, 2015
Robert (Bob in Australia).....................love your comment about bad English lol
elliemike said
12:04 PM Feb 5, 2015
I was with a tour travelling around the Baltic region last year. Our Tour guide was a PHD Psychology.
He spoke 10 languages and I think I heard him speaking in 9 of those. Facinating person.
Earned more doing the tour guide thing (his own Company with four partners) than he could in Malaga Spain using his degree. Taking four months off each year as well.
TechnoGypsy said
08:24 PM Feb 5, 2015
Ha ! That's nothing.
I've been known to talk in "tongue" .............once I've had sufficient ouzo and cokes
-- Edited by TechnoGypsy on Thursday 5th of February 2015 08:46:39 PM
TechnoGypsy said
08:43 PM Feb 5, 2015
Ha ! That's nothing.
I've been known to talk in "tongue" .............once I've had sufficient ouzo and cokes
blaze said
11:49 PM Feb 5, 2015
well I spent the day showing them around the local area, well about 200km for the day. Then back to base for a feed of kanga steaks and bottle of red. then spent another couple hrs showing them pics of other states they hadn't been too. So a great day aand evening and I still cant swear right in any of the four languages
they were trying to teach me
cheers
blaze
Cruising Cruze said
09:17 PM Feb 8, 2015
I bet you had a good time Robert
It's a pitty that we don't look after the backpackers more
they still bring in a fair amount of money into Australia
We always invite them here in Hervey Bay to come around for a drink or a barbie when we start to talk to them
We met this way some lovely people from all over the world
mate turned up today with a couple of backpackers looking for a cheap place tto pitch their tent for the night. Young lass from switzland and young lad from france. Great kids. The young lass as a phd and speaks 4 languages (I can only understand one). Got my entainment sorted for tonight
cheers
blaze
most people speak more than one
John
Well aware of that, I was duty manager at the biggest back packers in Broome for nearly 12 months and rest assured most are only bilingual and most also have a degree of some sort.
cheers\blaze
Once they have been here for awhile = most go away with another language under their belt = BAD ENGLISH
that's the first thing we learned Robert when we came here 30 years ago
being a baker by trade what trouble I had with onces and pounds
But we still thank the Lord each day that we came here
Cheers John
-- Edited by Cruising Cruze on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 10:47:32 PM
I was with a tour travelling around the Baltic region last year. Our Tour guide was a PHD Psychology.
He spoke 10 languages and I think I heard him speaking in 9 of those. Facinating person.
Earned more doing the tour guide thing (his own Company with four partners) than he could in Malaga Spain using his degree. Taking four months off each year as well.
Ha ! That's nothing.
I've been known to talk in "tongue" .............once I've had sufficient ouzo and cokes
-- Edited by TechnoGypsy on Thursday 5th of February 2015 08:46:39 PM
I've been known to talk in "tongue" .............once I've had sufficient ouzo and cokes
they were trying to teach me
cheers
blaze
It's a pitty that we don't look after the backpackers more
they still bring in a fair amount of money into Australia
We always invite them here in Hervey Bay to come around for a drink or a barbie when we start to talk to them
We met this way some lovely people from all over the world
Cheers John