Comments | torakiyoshi: "If you come to my country, you should learn the language" and other immigration myths.

torakiyoshi

"If you come to my country, you should learn the language" and other immigration myths.

Jul 16, 2018 20:56

I've heard it all my life. I've even said it myself. This demand on immigrants that if they're in my country, they should learn my language. And then I became a teacher, and my perspective changed ( Read more... )

politics, china, language

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thewayne July 16 2018, 16:08:27 UTC

At least when we were in Germany the street signs were in a Romanized print. There is a mode in the Google Translate app that can take printed text in a foreign language and translate it to English, does that work over there ( ... )

torakiyoshi July 26 2018, 13:34:29 UTC

1) Google's translate app text mode works all the time, though if I can't be logged in, the translations are word-based and not dynamic phrase-based, so it can get iffy. If I can log in to wifi and use VPN, then I can use the voice translation and that works brilliantly. I especially like conversation mode, so I don't have to hit the button back and forth ( ... )

thewayne August 20 2018, 00:56:12 UTC

Sorry for the slow response to your message. My friend from Longmont got a job in the UK and came to stay for about a week before shipping off, and gave me a $2000 gaming laptop! He'd bought a new replacement and didn't need his old kit. And I had surgery for my sinus problem a week ago Friday and am slowly doing better, but it's pretty slow ( ... )

torakiyoshi August 23 2018, 04:17:15 UTC

No worries about speed. As you can see, I tend to miss a lot from LJ these days.

Can you upgrade the 2006 laptop OS to a more current version, or will the hardware not support it? Is it Mac or PC?

When I was last in Longmont, my Aunt and Uncle took me to a nice brewery on Main Street that had some really nice food. I think it was called the Firehouse. Lots of Millennial appeal, but also very nice for normal people like you'n me, too. In Boulder, I was greatly distressed to learn that Juanita's Mexican Restaurant (about a block west of the Mall on Pearl) closed a few years ago. Such a tragedy! But Alexandro's on Arapaho and Broadway might still be open. I also introduced my nephew to Moe's Broadway Bagels. Sooooooo good! I miss Moe's.

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