Difficulties for a non English speaker

[Lentin]

Hi, mates.
I've had a look at the memberlist. Most of members are from UK or USA and someone from Australia.
The number of people from non English countries is very very small.
I don't know if I'm the only one, but sometimes it's very hard for me to follow a thread when you talk about the different parts of the guitar (Truss rod, machine heads, purflings, and so on) since they are very specific terms not easy to find in a standard dictionary.
It would be a very nice idea to have a picture showing ALL parts of a guitar. I have not found it in internet (yes with some but not with all).

Does anyone accept the challenge?

Regards

[JB]

Something like this ... ?



I'll do something better later

[chris c]

Hello Lentin,

I'm one of the few non-English native speakers on this forum. I too had difficulties at first understanding some of the specific terms. But reading articles on the internet, in magazines, etc. helped a lot. I also have an English book about the guitar in which all parts are mentioned. Now I've become more proficient in the English guitar vocabulary than in French or Dutch, which I speak daily !

Chris

[David]

Hello Lentin,

I'm one of the few non-English native speakers on this forum. I too had difficulties at first understanding some of the specific terms. But reading articles on the internet, in magazines, etc. helped a lot. I also have an English book about the guitar in which all parts are mentioned. Now I've become more proficient in the English guitar vocabulary than in French or Dutch, which I speak daily !

Chris

Chris
Having read many of your posts, I assumed English was your first language. Your English is better than most of my students.

[chris c]

Thanks, David !

[Mr. Pohl]

We don't speak English on this side of the water, either (if one is to believe the British).

[David]

We don't speak English on this side of the water, either (if one is to believe the British).

You can speak it OK. You just can't spell.

[Lentin]

Thanks, JB.
That's exactly what I meant.
Very useful.

Regards.

[Lentin]

Hello Lentin,

I'm one of the few non-English native speakers on this forum. I too had difficulties at first understanding some of the specific terms. ...
. Now I've become more proficient in the English guitar vocabulary than in French or Dutch, which I speak daily !

Chris

Chris,
I'm Spanish. That means that English language and myself will never be great friends.
About guitar, I haven´t read too much, and this is the first time I belong to a forum list about guitar. That means that I ignore the proper terms even in Spanish for some parts, and most of them in English.
But I believe in myself (and in JB, of course)-
Regards.

[Son of Thunder]

Well, don't feel bad - I didn't know what purflings were either!

The English invented the language - we made it work!

[Mr. Pohl]

Purflings? Aren't they a pastry of some sort? Cream 'n chocolate 'n stuff?

[JB]

lol .... nice one Mr.Pohl

[rocksteady]

I thought they were the offspring of a "Purf"?