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If I don't understand them they might as well be gibberish. (My comment was meant to be funny, not to deprecate the French language.)
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It's gibberish in the same way that Latin was 'Greek to me' in high school.
Well it's 50+ years later, and they've got these wonderful devices called computers, One of the neat features of them is they can translate languages for you.
So while 50+ years ago you couldn't copy & paste a post into a universal translator and get a semi valid translation, you can do that now.
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I spent an hour doing just that with one of my Latino tenants one time. It didn't work very well. Finally the young daughter of another Latino family acted as translator for us. The kids seems to pick up English pretty easily. Not so their parents.
Another Latino tenant (of eleven years) took English language classes every week for ten years. After all that time he was as hard to understand as he was the first time I met him. Most of my adult Latino tenants had no desire to learn English at all, relying on their kids to translate when needed.
Maybe we should have used French as a 'bridge' language.
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