Loonsounds writes on We Fight Because I Am Stupid:

“For one thing, I didn’t realize or remember The Soldier was from a foreign country with a foreign language as a first language, and yet something in your writing drew out that example about India and language glitches. This poor guy, there I am intimating that he is smokin’ you a little bit, maybe not the case at all! It might really be a language thing. that’s wild.”
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Joana (who lives in Portugal) writes: My Home Is Bigger Than Yours Home

Your soldier lived in Portugal? I’m amazed, yesterday it was the chivalry, now this…

The soldier speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German, fluently. He speaks Italian (for the most part), some Russian I think. He had to learn Latin and he can get by in at least a half dozen other languages, maybe more.

He speaks English with a Southern accent and Spanish with a Spanish accent and people flip.

In fact when we’re together, people always glance at both of us and then speak Spanish to me. It’s embarrassing but then he steps in and let’s fly. It’s a chivalrous act, like getting the door for me.

“Here. Let me get that Spanish for you, Elsa”. ::blushes::

He also plays wicked games with his abilities but those are stories for another day. He does not think it is possible to be in love in Germany because the language is so bad on this front. He says if you say “I love you” in German it sounds like you just punched the person in the mouth.

He has Venus in Gemini in the 3rd house in wide opposition to Jupiter in Sagittarius in the 9th and can definitely chat you up. He lays the romantic Spanish on top the Southern gentleman thing and forget about it. You go down.

Lucky for me I am pretty much the only person on the planet he likes or I’d be in big trouble.

Are you bilingual? Trilingual? More? Got Gemini??

“I wrote that on my blog. You riding around on a burrito car. People thought it was funny.”

“Me on a burro?”

“Burro? Is that what you meant?” All the sudden a new picture exists in my head. “Oh! Riding a burro! You said you’d have a burrito for a car. Now this makes sense. Your feet barely touch the ground because you’re riding a short donkey?”

“Yeah. Burro. Burrito…”

“Okay, well you said burrito. I had no idea what you were talking about. I thought you meant you were riding around on food. I couldn’t figure it out so I substituted the Oscar Meyer wienermobile.”

“Oh, well I’d like to drive one of those too.”

The soldier (Venus in Gemini) speaks so many languages he sometimes inadvertently speaks gibberish.

He was on the mat first. I’d met him before, he’s a huge African man, maybe 6’4″ but very light on his (size 14) feet… and inordinately co-coordinated. I mean, this guy can really move. AIRY.

“Hey,” he said as I approached. “Elsa, right?”

“Yeah. Hi, Gil.”

“Hi. You have a secret admirer” he said. Continue reading Astrology At The Gym: Accusing Aquarius of Being Gemini – Why Not? Give Him Something To Talk About

When I met the soldier he was 19 and already spoke four or five languages. I am pretty sure at this point he can communicate with anyone in the world, because this is one of the things they teach in Special Forces.

It’s imperative you can communicate the with the locals wherever it is they’re going to send you, so you go to language school when necessary before leaving on a mission. Plus they pay you extra for every language you can speak so he would be inclined to accept missions where language school was required and he stayed in it so long… well at this point, he is pretty much fluent, period. Continue reading Jupiter in Sagittarius: Mashing The Cultures – The Soldier on Speaking Comic Book