OK,, I've cracked under the pressure. Since the second most tooted language on this channel is Castilian (Spanish) I guess I'm going to have to acquire a basic vocabulary. 1/2
2/2 I have neither the time nor headspace to start with another language, so think I'll try something new: capture a load of toots inte a file, run it through some Perl to capture the 100 most frequently used words, translate, learn, and go from there.
As a very active language learner, I have hopes.