Subj : Re: Language Support
To   : N2qfd
From : AKAcastor
Date : Mon Apr 22 2024 07:10 pm

 n>   Yeah, Praha has a reputation as the pickpockets 
 n> academy... It was the best place in Europe to have a car 
 n> stolen too once upon a time.. 
 n>   I used to hand in the non-stops because I was/hung out 
 n> with degenerates..  It was great! But it was also sort 
 n> of wild to see what went on when the upright went to 
 n> bed. 

From your description, I can imagine there were some interesting times! :)

 n> I found this too and in Prague in particular you could 
 n> speak no language and get by! In the countryside it was 
 n> the someone rule. I was taken as a Praguer for the 
 n> accent I developed in Czech though I couldn't hear it. 

After I spent a couple years living in France, when I'd visit my family in Canada they'd tell me I was starting to develop a French accent.  When I relayed this information to my French colleagues, they assured me that there was, in fact, NO hint of French in my accent.  :)

 n>  Once in Greece I hid from assault by angry communists 
 n> by speaking Czech rather than English but that's another 
 n> story. 

This sounds like a story I'm looking forward to hearing too.


gut yontif,

Chris/akacastor
(with assistance from google search)

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