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📸 matej kubes

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Just wanted to give the shout-out to those guys who speak English as an additional language (and I'm not just talking about second-language speakers, I mean those who picked up a bit at school as a 3rd or 4th language) who aren't quite fluent but when they run into an English-speaker who shares their special interest they're determined to give it a go and end up being way better at holding a conversation than they thought.

I went into a fantastic camera shop in Prague the other day and when I said 'Mluvíš anglicky?' to the guy behind the counter (because I know like three phrases in Czech) he made like a 'eh, not so much' hand gesture, but then I brought out my beloved Pentax Super ME and asked whether they could kit me out with a strap for it...

And he's like 'my colleague will find you the best one, and when you're done I will show you proper books of Czech photographers, because I can tell you are serious person with proper camera instead of this modern crap."

I left the shop having learned so much from this guy and his colleagues, all of whom claimed their English was okay at best, because I think something wonderful happens in our brains when we're motivated to learn language by what interests us rather than just told what to say by teachers thinking we'll need to describe every item in our pencil cases.

My knowledge of the cyrillic alphabet is shaky at best, but if someone wrote 'Петриківка' on a sign and stuck it at the entrance to a dark alley they could quite easily lure me to my death, because look at this stuff!