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Just don't say "Do you speak Iranian?". I remembered a video where a man meets an Iranian immigrant and he hesitated to ask that. Fortunately the Iranian put him out of misery and just cut the question and replied "Yes of course I still speak Persian"

I think no one beats when Xi visited Venezuela a few years back...

And now I wonder whether there are words in Slovak that is normal but became a profanity/negative words in Czech? Indonesian and Malay have a lot of these words, and sometimes it caused some trouble for travelers from both countries. For example: Dadah Indonesian: This word is used when you ask little kids to wave goodbye to someone else ("C'mon, dadah to grandma before we leave") Malay: narcotics Butuh Indonesian: need Malay: d*ck Pusing Indonesian: dizzy Malay: turn (left or right) Banci: Indonesian: drag queens Malay: census Seronok: Indonesian: Lewd Malay: Fun Also there is the word awak which means "you" in Malay but in West Sumatra it means "I" (other regions use different words). Imagine if someone from Malaysia comes to West Sumatra....

I used to... I don't have enough perseverance unfortunately, but still refuse to uninstall it from my phone

and is usually said to be 90% intelligible (for the formal/standard language) since it came from the same root. But from what I observe nowadays, younger generation in Indonesia will have more difficulty in understanding Malay because there are many vocabularies that is now become rarely used by them. And with more Indonesians understanding English, they just won't bother to think about trying to understand Malay when they happen to meet Malaysians. Side story: As I am Chinese descent with ancestry from Fujian Province, I speak Hokkien. And I found out that even Hokkien speakers in Indonesia has different variations, where sometimes the difference in the vocabulary can be quite big. The Medan Hokkien (the one I spoke) is mostly intelligible with Penang Hokkien in Malaysia, which means it's quite isolated compared to other variants. My father once arranged to meet a Singaporean businessman and my father thought that as they both can speak Hokkien it is alright (he barely understands English or Mandarin). When they start discussing, it turns out my father doesn't totally understand what the Singaporean was saying. Luckily I was there, and suddenly became the middleman between them lol

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1086046/tokyo-mayors-shock-at-marathon-switch Looks like a drama is coming

Talking about this, I remembered last year Hong Kong considered a bid for 2021 (but of course it is certainly cancelled due to the unrest)

Han Aiping passed away due to lung cancer http://www.badmintonplanet.com/badminton-news/14811-former-world-champion-han-aiping-passes-away-57.html

Definitely, because Cali is in Colombia

The problem is the streams are playing cat-and-mouse with CCTV, I did have a few links that I used for badminton tournaments a few months ago and now none of them works. The 'always ready' solution is use a VPN to simply access the CCTV-5 web page, as you had done

Pretty much you will just have to find a stream.. From what I saw, no event will be broadcasted until the opening (live in CCTV-5). And also only a few event the day after on CCTV-5 and CCTV-5+ Perhaps the CCTV mobile app will provide more events?

Poland has won a medal earlier, so please donate one for us

Apparently to combat heat, there are plans to move marathon and race walk events to Sapporo https://www.olympic.org/news/international-olympic-committee-announces-plans-to-move-olympic-marathon-and-race-walking-to-sapporo

Wow, just wow

What a great way to watch karate, real plane noises as dramatic background music...

Lol I can't even find the video All what is trending is the "two spiderman pointing each other" meme due to their flag similarities

I can remember we did quite well a few times in DNC Hope their skills won't vanish by the time they reach 17

Playlist running order in case switching back and forth to the first page is straining your eyes ROU INA MDA ALG SRB SWE SVK HUN CRO LTU CZE ESP USA GBR NED NZL KAZ ITA IRL ARG DEN NOR MEX AUS IND CHI EGY TUN CHN POR FIN CAN SLO FRA GRE BUL POL BRA MLT

Need some Polish users to help find any information of this "cooperation agreement" between Majalengka region in West Java with Magdalenka in Poland (there are a few in Google Maps) This image has been circulating for the last 2 days but no news from the Majalengka local government

We won the Suhandinata Cup!!!

The website go crazy if you click "English"

And I thought we only send Rifda Irfanalutfi because the media here only wrote about her

WJC Team Event Bracket

And Sindhu lost at that time.. shocking

Man, what a mess