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just remove the mistake lol my self wen so it
I speak English and gibberish, which is a dailect of Rubbish. 
Couldn't agree more Margaret your language skills are just like mine except I sometimes add a little French as wellI speak English and gibberish, which is a dailect of Rubbish.
Oh I can do just a soupcon of French,(sorry I can't do the little accent that should go over the c) poco Spanish.......eine kleine german...that's it
A little French, a pinch of German, a smattering of Spanish and a teensy weensy bit of Gaelige. Then there, rubbish, gibberish and double dutch.
Actually when I mentioned it earlier it wasn't the French spoken in France I was on about, it was more the French talked in the Tap RoomI speak French well enough to get by in Quebec without having sales clerks roll their eyes and ask if I would rather speak English.
I speak fairly good French though I don't get much practise these days, enough German to just about get by when shopping, a little bit of Spanish, ditto Italian, a few words of Greek (kalimera, kalispera etc.) and the same of Maltese.
Last time I was in Cyprus I went to a little baker's shop where the owner spoke good English. When he gave my my change I said "Efharisto" and after the obligatory "parakalo" he looked at me with a big smile and said, "Oh, you speak Greek". I said well, no, not really I just know how to be polite - but he wasn't listening. "Did you learn it at school?" he said. I kept trying to tell him I don't speak Greek but it was no use.
I went in the shop nearly every day while I was there (his cakes were scrummy) and he greeted me like a relative every time. I just kept saying Yassou, Kalimera and Efharisto - what more (literally) could I say?
Last time I was in Cyprus I went to a little baker's shop where the owner spoke good English. When he gave my my change I said "Efharisto" and after the obligatory "parakalo" he looked at me with a big smile and said, "Oh, you speak Greek". I said well, no, not really I just know how to be polite - but he wasn't listening. "Did you learn it at school?" he said. I kept trying to tell him I don't speak Greek but it was no use.
I went in the shop nearly every day while I was there (his cakes were scrummy) and he greeted me like a relative every time. I just kept saying Yassou, Kalimera and Efharisto - what more (literally) could I say?
Actually when I mentioned it earlier it wasn't the French spoken in France I was on about, it was more the French talked in the Tap Room
I'm not talking about the French spoken in France either ... Quebec French is as much like the French spoken in France as Lancashire dialect is like English
