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Russian!

1. Marina speaks English and German. Марина говорит по-английски и по-немецки.
2. Do you study Arabic? Ты изучаешь арабский язык?
3. Who writes French? Кто пишет по-французски?
4. The students study Italian. Студенти изучают итальянский язык.
5. I read and write Spanish very well. Я читаю и пишу по-испански очень хорошо.
6. My parents do not understand Russian. Мои родители не понимают по-русски.
7. What languages do you know? We speak and read Chinese. Какие языки вы знаете? Мы говорим и читаем по-китайски.
8. I studied French in college, but now I speak French badly. Я изучала французский язык в университете, а теперь я плохо говорю по-французски.
9. They used to speak Japanese fluently. Они свободно говорили по-японски.
10. Have you studied Russian? (Avez-vous is the first thing I thought of, sadly.)Ты изучала русский язык? Вы изучали русский язык?
11. I used to speak German well, but now I speak poorly. Я хорошо говорила по-немецки, а теперь плохо говорю.

And, my take on AmazonFail's customer service emails: I used to work Customer Service. I not only sent out the Customer Service emails, I read responses to other emails that other reps had sent when the customer left that pasted into the body of the email. And some of the other reps' responses that I saw were the most boneheaded unhelpful shit I've ever read. The customer would email in about problem A and the other reps would give the rote response, not even customized and maybe with field placeholders still in, to problem F. This reflects poorly on the company, obviously, but when I raised this issue to the email team supervisor I was dropped from the email team, despite being literally twice as productive as any other rep. Fortunately this was a week or two before I moved to NC, so I didn't have to deal with it anymore.

So, yeah. The Amazon CS emails? Do not surprise me. Especially if the actual CS reps sending the emails didn't have a clue what was going on, which sometimes happen.

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Quick. NO ONE COMMUNICATE TODAY.

Seriously, is there something in the water? Everyone's either communicating weirdly through no fault of any individuals but just, the words travelling less than smoothly between people who normally communicate fine, or people are just being freaks. Or both, but not in any case I've encountered thus far.

My head hurts, and work is deader than a very dead thing. And I'm out of aspirin. I think the Witch Queen has enough aleve to kill a perosn, though.

Have lyrics. They're stuck in my head.

So you'd sing a lullaby to get me to sleep
So it's no surprise my eyes are never heavy
For i've not seen you in the flesh for so long
That i'm not sure we would know each other at all

Oh the weight it must be light wherever you are
And i know you don't think twice wherever you are
Oh the weight it must be light wherever you are
And i know you don't think twice wherever you are

So i will hum alone, too far from you
All that i say now is nothing to you
We will lie under different stars
I am where i am and you're where you are, you're where you are.

Oh the weight it must be light wherever you are
And i know you don' t think twice wherever you are
And i'd ask if you're all right wherever you are
And do you think of me, you might, wherever you are.

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German! Only not in Cyrillic as I first had it. Oops. Change keyboard, THEN type.

1. Wann ist du Geburstag? Frank and Beate are updating their birthday list. Take the role of Beate and tell him in what month the following peoples birthdays are.

Petra hat im Juni Geburstag.
Du hast im September Geburstag.
Jürgen hat im Februar Geburstag.
Ihr habt im Mai Geburstag.
Ulrike und Heinz haben im Oktober Geburstag.
Wir haben im April Geburstag.
Ich habe im Mai Geburstag.

Your hat is nice for Fraggles. Ahem.

… aaand the next bit has four exercises or so and involves all that WO IST DAS VERB?? stuff, so I think I’ll just stop here and do the next bit on Friday. Because tomorrow (not Tomorrow, Jag, this is English, only proper nouns need to be capitalized and .. oh, never mind.) is the first day of GERMAN CLASS.

YOUR HAT IS NICE FOR FRAGGLES.