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I love how confident you sound about the Bolivian language. I guess you meant spanish, or maybe aymara/quechua. > This will be familiar to most people who've s
by yarky 5y ago
I love how confident you sound about the Bolivian language. I guess you meant spanish, or maybe aymara/quechua.
> This will be familiar to most people who've studied abroad
It wasn't to me until now but this explains a lot!
- craftinator 5y agoI chose Bolivia because I know next to nothing about it and it seemed neutral; I should have used a notional country, like the Republic of United Swiss Emirates. You've never had to do that before? Maybe I run into it a lot due to the nature of the conferences I attend. I know just enough of the language for functional conversation, but as soon as a complex idea is put forward, I need to be able to contextualize the familiar scientific portions of it quickly, and the round trip translation usually helps enough that I can parse it correctly.
- yarky 5y ago> You've never had to do that before? Not really, but I came across some teammates in college who didn't seem to be able to follow a conversation yet they seemed to have quite good writing skills. This might be the reason why ;)