#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!)
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