apocalypsepony wrote:
I'm actually always impressed that Callisto doesn't have more difficulty with the English. Because, really, it's not like a lot of the horse specific idioms and such are what you would learn in a formal English language class.

Like I said, my foreign language abilities consist of two years of High School French, and some California Spanglish enough to determine if: a) a person wants the Fire Department or the Ambulance, b) their child is breathing or not, c) hold for the translator, please, and d) "No, it's not the Greyhound Station, it's the Fire Department".


Well, there are a lot of reasons. - When you are passionate about something, there is more effort involved. So I can better talk about horses than anything else . - I had 4 years of English in High School - Numerous courses in English when going to university - Belgium is so small that we need to learn other languages or no one understands us outside of our country. Certainly the Flemish part. We speak Dutch so only the Netherlands speak the same language. Most Flemish people speak French and English too. French is necessary in Brussels, since 60% speaks French there and it's our biggest city so important for employment. The French speaking part is not so interested in other languages. - We hear English all the time on the tv and the radio so it is something we grow up with and hear every day.

Some words when spoken can't be taken back