#Photooftheday Ford across a small river (Millevaches, France)
Most of them have wooden footbridges, or the traditional ones made from giant chunky rocks balanced on other rocks.
(Or the "livestock wall that's also a bridge" variant. Super-fun to tiptoe across without losing balance 😅)
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit Both are correct! So it was probably a joke/pun for real.
SO MANY cows around here.
It's not wrong.
My town name is funny as well, but that would doxx me..
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit French is *mild* compared to English.
They both have a multitude of arcane rules, but at least French words are polite enough to (mostly) stick to them.
Meanwhile, Polish would like to have a word (eldrich-ass, un-pronounceable)
I did German at school for a year. Loved it. Lego-brick language!
@herissonrose @moonrabbit Hard agree with all of this. have been trying to learn Polish on and off for a couple years and it needs more vowels/fewer tongue-twisting consonant clusters. Also the grammar is confusing.
Love lego language though. :)
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit it's the szsz isn't it? 😂
(I only learned from being raised by a Polish granma)
I think Icelandic and Hungarian? were ranked most difficult languages to learn*, but Polish has *got* to be top 10.
French has the rolling r-r-r-rs, English the "th" sound.
Slavic langs have dozens, which unless you learned them really young, are an *absolute bastard* to master as an Eng speaking adult.
Plus the insane number of tenses 😭 (I think Polish has the most of any language??)
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit * Hardest learning curve for native English speakers.
Eng to Slavic is pretty steep. Same w Japanese to English.
Totally different sentence structures, mouth sounds.
Oddly French and Polish have lots of similarities, which is why my Polish mother finds speaking in French much easier than I do! Sentence structure almost the same. No inverting the word order!
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit The pro of speaking any Slavic group language (even a little bit), is you can vaguely comprehend the other ones. Buy One, Get More Free.
Was a fun game to play on the London Tube commute.
(These people are speaking.. Not Polish. But I can understand Enough™️ )
@Starry1086 Then you have a skill I am highly envious of!
Can do it for English (Romance / Latin / Norman French roots, vs Celtic, or Saxon German ones)
But for Polish? Embarrassingly I only learned to speak, not read til much later.
(My granny was horribly near-sighted, and struggled to write. WW2 and lack of glasses interrupted her education. She had to teach herself later on)
So the "reading" part I tackled much later too, when it was much harder to learn. (Still not v good at it!)
@Starry1086 @moonrabbit Young kids are v neuro-plastic and absorb languages rapidly like sponges.
You lose that by teenhood, so it's 10x harder.
One year of my granny who only spoke Polish, and 4yr old me was fluent.
(Of course, I forgot just as quickly after she went back to help raise my cousin)
But pronouncing the sounds stuck.
I may not speak it any more, but was the only person who could say my classmate's full name.
The other teens just couldn't form the sounds.
(ah yes, wszsz!)
Herisson Rose
laen🪻
Ellen 🎈