{"id":1594,"date":"2014-08-02T18:17:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T10:10:13","slug":"learn-lingo-common-foreign-language-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/uncategorized\/learn-lingo-common-foreign-language-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Lingo &#8211; Common Foreign Language Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although English is widely spoken in most major ski resorts, often the more rustic restaurants, family-run hire shops and even front-of-office ski school staff do not speak it. And isn&#8217;t it appropriate to at least make an attempt to speak in the language of your hosts? And what if you want to fraternise with the locals?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Davos-dree-skipass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Davos-dree-skipass-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Waking up with your ski boots on and somebody else in your bed\" width=\"512\" height=\"256\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Davos-dree-skipass-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Davos-dree-skipass-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSummer is a good time to decide both your target winter sports destination and also to brush up on the local lingo in good time. If you want to learn a language, I&#8217;m a great fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelthomas.com\/\" title=\"Michel Thomas language learning system\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Thomas system<\/a>. You can do it in the car or on the train, in fact just about anywhere you can listen to it and without the need to read a book or follow the text in a book.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to learn the language, but could do with some useful phrases, I will provide some in French, German and Italian in the next few weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although English is widely spoken in most major ski resorts, often the more rustic restaurants, family-run hire shops and even front-of-office ski school staff do not speak it. And isn&#8217;t it appropriate to at least make an attempt to speak in the language of your hosts? And what if you want to fraternise with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/uncategorized\/learn-lingo-common-foreign-language-expressions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learn the Lingo &#8211; Common Foreign Language Expressions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,92,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-switzerland-2","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}