Um yeah well I studied I mean I studied Old English for a while Um and then worked with Larry Hyman on like some of the Bantu languages Um and you know also working with Ian Maddieson and been doing work on the uh like also some African languages So like so not really learned not little really bit exposed to German very much No I mean I sing in German Ah Interesting Interesting I mean Huh can I can pronounce it but I don't know any OK interesting I can do I can Yeah pronounce a lot of languages and not actually speak them because of singing Yeah Hmm Huh For me I found the Spanish speakers to be the hardest And Yeah German speakers I found a little bit easier and I thought maybe that was because I had I took German for a semester and Oh had exposure to German um because I had a lot of friends who were really into Germany and German language and But And I found that I could if they were pronouncing something in a certain way I could say Oh well just the German way of pronouncing this and then I figured out what they were saying um but with the Spanish speakers it was never taken Spanish and even though taken French and I speak French fairly well um I found the Spanish to be much harder and maybe also because the level of fluency for the Spanish speakers was a little bit less than the level of fluency of the German speakers that are Oh talking I about think think talking about are you talking about um There was a couple of different Spanish speakers give names can yeah w we probably shouldn't right Is I that a good question Um And I can't really answer that OK well one in particular who I find the hardest to transcribe of all and d Spanish Oh So OK And um and taken lots fluent in Spanish and so um when I when I correct it I can t I can tay tell that the person who um transcribed it before me probably didn't speak Spanish cuz I can catch a lot of things like like No not what she said I can tell pronouncing pronouncing it the way that if you read it from a you know a Spanish mind that you would you know pronounce it the way that you would pronounce it in Spanish But the same time uh I can't get most of it cuz I Huh fascinating interesting it one of one of the hardest ones to transcribe Well what you can see is that her lack of of English fluency Yeah Oh being OK think so yeah Yeah really interesting I do find that the German tends to be easier for me than s than the others because of my c exposure and interest in German Yeah But Right um Maybe I haven't transcribed this Spanish woman I don't know if I have I suspect you haven't because this was uh earlier on that we had a lot of actually she she was in the middle phase I would say We Hmm another Spanish speaker who was earlier who was Yeah also difficult Yeah he was hard Yeah But really interesting He got easier though because Yeah he started like he would say certain words over and over and And you got to know his pronunciation of Yeah So I when remember yeah Yes Yes sounds yes sign he was saying signal Yeah Ex remember that And exactly wow transcribe m signal eh the way he said mixed was really strange too Meexe meese Miss somethi yeah or Huh something Right Yeah Which He was you know you could predict it I mean if you knew kinda look cool Especially back because also in the beginning meetings I mean say something and no one in the meeting would understand and then everyone would say What Oh was that eh again and then Yeah pronounce it in English and so I could figure out what it was Yeah that way Yeah interesting Yeah OK Yeah I mean he was never like it was never up to like a native speaker but like that it got a little easier Um his English remember fluency beginning better you had and you were just sorta like you were beating your head against the wall crazy I it go but it got better it I got I better would skip doing that portion Yeah as long as I could remember because i I just couldn't deal with it Yeah and Yeah I had the same experience Yeah Sometimes And actually Sometimes when people lack a certain level of fluency you can ask them themselves What did you say there and And they they can't won't tell know you S Mmm I think sort of a general variability when Hmm when learning a language and you haven't gotten to a certain level Yeah wonder if if partly that Span Spanish has different pronunciations in different regions I mean do you think that um that uh maybe I mean being I mean not that I would know that Mmm But I just wondered if um you know she was from probably continental Spain versus y you know other Spanish I wonder if that would have a a contributing factor I don't know Oh like the region I have no idea Yeah Spain but I know that in France for example Parisian French is much easier for me to understand cuz I learned it versus France in like Marseilles or in the south or in like the provin like Right the villages in the south really hard to understand Menton Or in Quebec right In Canada Yeah be different Much lot different pronunciations Yeah different Yeah And in my case with with uh German w I a certain region that I do well in and then Yeah get farther away from that Yeah and I notice more and more difficult Yeah another language spoken in Spain too um what am I thinking of Castillian Castillian Yeah and uh And um Catalan Catalan Yeah So maybe I mean depending on where she is like maybe But ch also very low volume And um and didn't say a lot I mean I I I c I totally agree This was a a difficult person Yeah to to Yeah understand Well Yeah the last But did she actually said a lot and it was kinda it was very hard to transcribe You kno it was i j I just think that um her fluency in English wasn't wa um wasn't very very high up there so it was really Yeah difficult But I mean I did find that knowing Spanish helped me a lot I I can could imagine Hmm yeah of things that the other transcriber had put in parentheses I was like I can see how you how you couldn't understand that but I c I kn I think I know what doing Yeah think yeah know the yeah mistake making And