I went to Poland last year for a meeting, and there was a Czech in the group who said he could understand what the Poles were saying to him in Polish (albeit with difficulty), but that they had a harder time understanding him.
Being a Mormon, I served a two-year mission in Taiwan, where I learned to speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese. I've lost a lot of it sense then, but I'm still keeping it up the best I can.
I'm trying my hand at Swedish now. I'm already better at reading Swedish than Chinese, but I can't seem to figure out how to pronounce the vowels (Chinese vowels are, surprisingly, more like English vowels than Swedish vowels are).
-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
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