Language Lessons
I was one of the 'lucky few' selected for a weeks intensive Serbo-Croat language training. The teacher was herself a refugee from the conflict who was now making a decent living teaching the British Army.
Phrases I Learnt Which I Thought Might Come In Handy*:
** - I hope to get to use some of these in the future.
Phrases I Learnt Which I Thought Might Come In Handy*:
- Hello, my name is.....
- British Army, stop or I fire.
- Put down the weapon.
- That place is dangerous - it is mined.
- I'd like a double en-suite room please.
- A table for two.
- We are ready to order now.
- Can I have the bill please.
** - I hope to get to use some of these in the future.
fired down the range by DC at 5:15 pm
12 Comments:
Great post, made me smile! I took 3 years of Spanish in high school, and I swear I can only actually remember the phrases that will probably never do me any good :)
Eggbanjo - your spelling is a little out but apart from that top marks fella!
Kath - I can order beer in many languages.
Amateur! The phrase you are looking for is:
"Can she have the bill, please?"
;o)
What's 'Help, I've been forced into a marriage of convenience and I need an annulment before the wife finds out?'
Do you manage to retain the phrases once you've moved on?
ah yes, "una mas cerveza, por favor, Seniorita!"
wow, got an extra letter in Senorita...
Greavsie - how did you know about that little incident?
PI - some of it has stuck but not all.
Kath - see you remembered something useful!
Laura - a group of us (pre-army days) did a runner from a curry house once. We got half a mile down the road and found out that someone had paid.
My postillion has been struck by lightning . . .
Hmmm. Think this phrase book is rather old. What's this 'V Reg.'
imprint doing on the flyleaf?
Croatian keyboards are a bit strange...Y is bottom left and Ž, Č, and Đ all feature.
(How did I do that ehh? :-) )
"Stani ili putsam! Ya sam Britanski Voynyek!"
ah the phrases come flooding back don't they! I always liked "Volim Te!" (I love you!) which became a staple when talking to those devastatingly beautiful women while drunk on "extortinately for the IFOR soldiers" pivo in the local bars.
anyone remember Rakkia? (shudder)
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