Do you manage to get by in the local lingo?

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I've managed to travel around a fair bit, mainly with the missus on holiday, and I've always managed to get by. I've visited all of Western Europe except Andorra, Czech Republic, Hungary, Cyprus, the Caribbean and the US. I've occasionally had to resort to some stumbling German or pidgin French but English usually gets you by, even in the US :p

But I was totally stumped yesterday. I spent half an hour in one town that I've never visited before and I didn't meet with anyone I could communicate with :shrug: The name of this far off distant land? Thetford!

Has anyone else had language difficulties in their homeland?
 
First time I ventured into Newcastle-upon-Tyne I popped into the tourist info office for directions. The guy couldn't understand my accent and I couldn't figure out his. In the end I wrote down the address I was looking for and he wrote down the directions....:lol:
 
I have lived in London for 4 years now and there are still rare occassions when customers walk in and I cannot for the life of me figure out what they are saying. No, not the masses of migrants in this big city, but locals with a dialect all of their own....:shrug:
 
Yv said:
I have lived in London for 4 years now and there are still rare occassions when customers walk in and I cannot for the life of me figure out what they are saying. No, not the masses of migrants in this big city, but locals with a dialect all of their own....:shrug:
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Yeah, dahn the rub-a-dub and up the apples and pears! We're a rum lot us Lahnduners! :nuts: :D
 
When I was at uni in Wales I could never understand the guys and girls from the valleys.

Was in the pub one night with some mates, and one of my mates girlfriends turned round to me in a very very strong Welsh and said she really fancied a c*ck - yeah, some c*ck would be nice. :thinking: I didn't really know what to say, and certainly wasn't interested in her and my mate were going to get up to. :nono: Wasn't until he went to the bar I found out she was saying she wanted some coke :shrug:
 
Foggy said:
When I was at uni in Wales I could never understand the guys and girls from the valleys.

Was in the pub one night with some mates, and one of my mates girlfriends turned round to me in a very very strong Welsh and said she really fancied a c*ck - yeah, some c*ck would be nice. :thinking: I didn't really know what to say, and certainly wasn't interested in her and my mate were going to get up to. :nono: Wasn't until he went to the bar I found out she was saying she wanted some coke :shrug:
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Just be thankful she didn't ask you to give her some ice
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I went to the republic of ireland at the beginning of the year (Limerick), and I had to ask the taxi driver to slow his speaking down :$ :lol:
 
You probably tried to talk norfolk to them.. most of them are ex londonders who've lived in norfolk for about 20 years and got their own language.
thetford is a place to avoid at all costs.
 
As Thetfords claim to fame is the Porta Potty for camping only to be expected them being clean round the bend and a bit flushed with you.
 
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