Wow, you can speak five languages! That’s amazing sir!
Your skull seems to be filled with five times more brains than mine sir!
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Same issue as with Lewis gun
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It is less amazing as it may sound.
Here in Holland, W-Europe, kids learn foreign languages at school mandatory.
Beginning with English at a very young age, later adding mandatory French and German for two years.
After those two mandatory years you can choose to continue studying them or choose something else.
So basically almost everybody here in my country who went to school studied at least 2 years of French and German and even more English.
Very useful, after all they are our neighbours.
( I learned Spanish as 5th language mostly from holidays in Spain and dating Spanish girls 
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I too had English as a required subject in school, but I still can’t speak it well. There is a U.S. Navy base in my city, so I have many American friends with whom I interact, but I still can’t speak English well at all.
You seem to have had a very good school years sir.
By the way, do you live in the Netherlands? I live in Nagasaki city, which has a very close connection with the Netherlands. Japan was closed off to the outside world during the Middle Ages, but we had contact only with the Dutch, and we learned a lot from them, including medical technology.
So, there are towns and cities that imitate the Dutch landscape. lmao
You seem to be quite the playboy, sir!
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Your English on the forum is as good as anybody else’s!
I spend most of my schooltime being stupid, playing videogames, not doing my best at school, drinking alcohol and smoking weed.
Not much has changed since then 
Yes I live in the Netherlands.
Such a weird country.
It’s called The Netherlands but also Holland.
And if you live there, you are Dutch. 
In our national anthem, we sing that we have German blood and are loyal to the King of Spain.
I am not joking! (it’s all about history)
I remember from history lessons about the Dutch being the only people allowed into Japan in the middle ages, for trading.
It always makes me feel special because the Japanese are honorable and respectable people and you allowed nobody else in!
I will google for pictures to get an impression.
Great pic of Dutch architecture style in Japan!
Not really, all my relationships have failed so far 
I also had an Indonesian woman, tried to learn her language too.
So I will just continue and try women from all over the world, perhaps someday I will speak all languages.
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For the Japanese, Holland is one of their special friend nations. Many Japanese respect Holland.
(So, I wrote “Netherlands”, but many Japanese call it “Holland”. It is strange that many Japanese call it “Holland”, while I write “Netherlands”.)
Many Holland words remain in the Japanese language. For example, Japanese doctors traditionally use Holland and German words.
Since World War II, we have learned many advanced technologies and medical techniques from the U.S., but the memory of interacting with Europe has already become a tradition for us, and it is hard to be “Americanized”. 
It seems that you will be spreading your genes to the world even more than Genghis Khan, sir!
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It’s Halftrack, one word. The “track” part is the rear end because “tracks” is more or less synonymous with “treads.” So Halftrack, or “half tread.” Just simply describing it isn’t a fully tracked vehicle, but rather half regular vehicle (wheels) and half tracked vehicle.
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The cat’s brain did not have the power to understand your explanation.
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Tanks are “fully tracked” vehicles. Halftracks are only partially tracked. Tracks, treads, same thing
“Tank treads”
So the Halftrack is a 4x4 truck that we replaced the rear tires with little tank treads
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So…Half-Track is Half-Track because Half-Track is half-tank?
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…yes
ngl i used to be super obsess with half track vehicle it just so unique and mysterious to me when i was a child
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T1 HMC M1 75mm Pack Howitzer strapped to a T2 Cunningham chassis
T1/M1(?) Mortar Motor Carriage 4.2” mortar on a Cunningham T1E1 Cargo Carrier
M2 MMC/T5E1 (side note G79) M1 4.2” mortar on a M3 Scout Car
M3 GMC/T12 M1897A4 gun strapped to an M3 Half Track
M4 MMC/T19 M1 81mm mortar in an M2 Halftrack
M5 GMC/T1 M6 3” gun on the Cleveland Tractor Co high speed tractor. Otherwise known as the M2 High-Speed Tractor or M2 Cletrac
M6 GMC/T21 Fargo M3 37mm on a Dodge WC55 (a modified WC52)
M7 HMC/T32 the “Priest,” M2 Howitzer strapped to an M3 Lee chassis
M8 HMC/T17E1 the “Scott,” M2 Howitzer fitted into an M5 Stuart chassis
M9/T40 GMC 3” M1918 AA gun on an M3 Lee hull
M10 GMC/T35E1 3” M7 gun on a modified M4A2
M12 GMC/T6 155 mm gun M1917 M1 gun strapped to an M3 Lee chassis
M13 MGMC dual Brownings on an M3 Halftrack
M14 MGMC dual Brownings on an M15 Halftrack
M15 MGMC dual Brownings with an M1 auto 37mm cannon wedged between on an M3 Halftrack
M16 MGMC Quad Brownings on an M3 Halftrack
M17 MGMC Quad brownings on an M5 Halftrack
M18 GMC/T70 “Hellcat” M1 76mm cannon on the M18 Chassis
M19 MGMC/T65E1 Dual 40mm Bofors on the M24 Chaffee Chassis
M21 MMC M1 81mm mortar and an M2 Browning on an M3 Halftrack
M34 MGMC/T160 M1 Automatic 40mm on the M3 Halftrack, a modification of the M15 MGMC
M36 GMC/T71E1 M3 90mm gun on the M10A1 hull, special designed turret
M40 155mm M2 gun strapped to an M4A3
M41 “Gorilla” 155mm M1 gun strapped to a lengthened M24 Chaffee chassis
M43 203mm M115 Howitzer strapped to an M4A3
T19 105mm M2A1 Howitzer strapped to an M3 Half Track
T30 M1 Pack Howitzer strapped to a Half Track
T92 240 mm Howitzer strapped to a T26E3
T93 8-inch M1 gun strapped to a T26E3
M4A3 (105) M2 Howitzer fitted into a Sherman
T26E2/M45 M2 Howitzer fitted into a Pershing
I like Motor Carriers, and those that utilize the M3 Halftrack make me extra happy
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any half track make me happy tbh since they are unique
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Yeah that’d do it. Lol
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yea maybe i should call it “half wheel” as a joke but it probably not funny coming from me after all
I mean…it’s a little funny
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thank man but tbh i suck at joke so im gonna stop now