I think Spanish and French are the worst, (sm)
Posted By: Z on 2007-11-09
In Reply to: anyone else think British accents are sometimes difficult? - SA
and I even took French. But they have an annoying way of dropping out all recordable sound and just doing something with their lips that a recorder can't pick up at the end of some words that is very annoying.
I have enjoyed British, but every newbie should be warned about their "stop" and "full stop" for punctuation, LOL.
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Spanish accents. sm
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Spanish accents. smC
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One of the Spanish docs says
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Spanish, Slavic, and Greek.
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I want to learn Spanish so when go to my fave
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I wore a Spanish mantilla - it stayed out of the way and was still fun.
To me they are harder than Indians, Spanish or anything else. Strange.
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We are expected to learn spanish, make
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Goes both ways. I have a hard time with tenses when speaking Spanish. :)
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I think French just might be
my least favorite accent. Despite my French teacher bragging about what excellent speakers the French are, never saying um, just having fast flowing speech, when dictating in English, the ones I've done have had some serious stammering, poor enunciation, extra words, and many unexplained word choice changes, and it's all I can do not to scream and grind my teeth the moment I hear that accent.
I'd love to tell my snotty French teacher that, too.
French!
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French for me too.
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You must be French or something because it is
(singular)
▸ noun: the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
▸ adjective: grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
(plural)
▸ noun: the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
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pleural is a medical term, regarding the lungs....
French Ed. major
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Bob for French fries!!
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Don't get it......what does French sounding name
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also had a French Canadian
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Canadian Dollars- probably French ESL nm
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"Faux" is French for false. - nm
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The French sounding name in other words
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Autocorrect turned french!
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Hot dogs and homemade french fries.
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even our coffee, French Vanilla creamer,
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Needless to say his wife has no self esteem whatsoever after almost 40 years of this.
However, she puts up with it and never says a word to him about it. Then the nastiness comes out in other ways. She's passive aggressive, mean, angry, frustrated and takes it out on anyone she can, which is why I just keep my distance.
Miserable, dysfunctional people. 
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Worst job. sm
The very worst job I ever had was working in a crab processing plant. Yep, blue crabs.
Now, top that! LOL
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Those seem like they would be the worst
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One of the worst
Look elsewhere, reach archives.
The worst of the worst...sm
Horrible management, 90% ESLs with horrible sound quality, and recieved my last paycheck 3 weeks late with no response as to why. They gave me gray hair.
One of my worst was
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That is the worst!
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