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 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:39 am
Darkness Dragons Revenge Lol, I love your many pings emotion_bigheart
And I'm pretty good at languages as well.
At one point, I was fluent in Spanish, but I had a hard time speaking it.
Now, I've lost a lot of it because I never used it...
I have Italian now, and I can understand fairly well if someone speaks spanish... The rolled Rs in Spanish get me.
I've never been able to make that sound and I sincerely doubt I will ever HAVE the ability to make that sound.
Other than that, though, speaking it is a pretty easy thing for me.
Not that I have much chance to do so; Ohio is not the land of the Latin American. Though we DO have a trailer full of Mexicans in my trailer park. (No, really, FULL, there are, like, eight or more of them living in one trailer. Really nice people, though, even if they like to listen to loud, crappy music while working on cars.)
I do this weird thing where I think in different languages. I'm forever translating things over and over in my head for no reason other than it amuses me and has become a habit from my doing it so often.
Italian and Spanish are SO close. Spanish and French are fairly close, too; I took a bit of French in middle school, so my first year of Spanish I did and learned essentially nothing because the basics are so close to each other.
One of the more ironic things about where I live; you'd think they'd offer French since we're so close to Canada and all but the only foreign language available at my high school was (still is) Spanish.
We had a wicked awesome teacher, though. She had actually lived and studied in Spain for a few years so she could teach us slang and other interesting things.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:41 am
Blind Blindness I need to learn basic Spanish. I have to pass a competency test or take actual credit courses. Actually, it doesn't have to be Spanish, but that's what I will choose since in Miami Spanish is extremely relevant. xD Spanish is fun~!
(And I think it's easy.)
I might be able to help you if you take some courses. owo
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:43 am
Darkness Dragons Revenge Ug I've gotten into Spazzy Cat's habit of centering everything!!! THE CENTERING WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
... or something.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:15 pm
Princess Zelda21 Darkness Dragons Revenge Princess Zelda21 Darkness Dragons Revenge Thankies!
I'll keep an eye on it cat_wink Yah, that seems to happen a lot. I gave it 5
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:16 pm
Queen Spazzy Darkness Dragons Revenge Ug I've gotten into Spazzy Cat's habit of centering everything!!! THE CENTERING WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
... or something. :Bigheart:
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:28 pm
Queen Spazzy The rolled Rs in Spanish get me.
I've never been able to make that sound and I sincerely doubt I will ever HAVE the ability to make that sound.
Other than that, though, speaking it is a pretty easy thing for me.
Not that I have much chance to do so; Ohio is not the land of the Latin American. Though we DO have a trailer full of Mexicans in my trailer park. (No, really, FULL, there are, like, eight or more of them living in one trailer. Really nice people, though, even if they like to listen to loud, crappy music while working on cars.)
I do this weird thing where I think in different languages. I'm forever translating things over and over in my head for no reason other than it amuses me and has become a habit from my doing it so often.
Italian and Spanish are SO close. Spanish and French are fairly close, too; I took a bit of French in middle school, so my first year of Spanish I did and learned essentially nothing because the basics are so close to each other.
One of the more ironic things about where I live; you'd think they'd offer French since we're so close to Canada and all but the only foreign language available at my high school was (still is) Spanish.
We had a wicked awesome teacher, though. She had actually lived and studied in Spain for a few years so she could teach us slang and other interesting things. I could always do the rolled R's. Then again, I've been speaking Spanish since I was 4 (I was the last class in my school system to receive language education all throughout elementary school and I loved it).
Wow that's a lot of people!
Okay, so I'm not the only one who does that.
AND OMG I DREAM IN ITALIAN!
You know the guy in the Rosetta Stone commercial, who says he dreams in French?
Yah, I do that in Italian, and I hardly know any Italian. I never dreamed in Spanish when I almost knew it fluently.
Spanish and French are close? What? I can't understand one word of French besides a greeting.
Spanish and Italian are so ridiculously close so it's made learning Italian easier.
Well, yes we're close to Canada, but Spanish is the more popular language in America.
Oh I love foreign slang and curses!
Whenever kids in my history class bug me, I say, "Fangool" (I butchered the spelling, but it's pronounced fun-gohul"). It means, "f- you" emotion_kirakira emotion_awesome
And in French, "freche de bach" (again, butchered spelling: "fre-che-de-bach") is, "Face of a pig".
I also know a lot of Italian "sign language" emotion_awesome
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:34 pm
Queen Spazzy Weirdly enough, we met in a math class.
I had taken an extra math when I was in NC so I ended up in a math with the grade above me when I moved (my beau's a year older).
The only open seat was at a group of desks with my beau and two other girls.
We also hung out at the library; once a week my first year here, there was an anime club we both went to with several friends.
I hung out at the library every day after school, too; I was an out of district student, so I couldn't ride the bus and my family couldn't pick me up until two or three hours after school let out most of the time. The library was just next door so it was convenient. And I love hanging out at the library anyway. >>; My second year he started coming over to the library to chill with me most days before he had to go to work (convenience of a small town, his job was literally across the street) and, well, the story kind of wrote itself. c;
Fun fact! We never actually asked each other out, we just kissed at the library one day and things just kinda went from there. >>;
(Second fun fact, our mothers had been trying to get us together for about a year before we finally started going out.)
I've never been very good with cars, I had to be forced through driver's ed in NC, and after my mummy flipped her car that just really sealed the deal, I don't even much like riding in them anymore.
I've been to the Smithsonian! I was, like, three, but I can still remember it. ^^;
My clearest memory of the D.C. trip is that the Lincoln Memorial terrified me because no matter where you stand the statue is staring at you and it freaked me out so bad. >>; Ooooo extra math? You're a nerd!!!!!! (jk) emotion_awesome
Wow that's a really really long time.
And yah, I'd stay forever at the library.
PS I think I might get banned from the library because my books are so overdue. Like, one is over a month and the others are almost a month. jk maybe emo
Awh! That's sooooo cute!!!! heart emotion_bigheart heart emotion_bigheart
Oh my god that's so funny! So both your mothers are good friends?
Oh god. I never would have guessed that happened.
I'm going to be driving soon. I could have started my hours MONTHS ago in September, but we had the early winter and my parents didn't want me out on the roads.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 2:15 pm
Darkness Dragons Revenge Ooooo extra math? You're a nerd!!!!!! (jk) emotion_awesome
Wow that's a really really long time.
And yah, I'd stay forever at the library.
PS I think I might get banned from the library because my books are so overdue. Like, one is over a month and the others are almost a month. jk maybe emo
Awh! That's sooooo cute!!!! heart emotion_bigheart heart emotion_bigheart
Oh my god that's so funny! So both your mothers are good friends?
Oh god. I never would have guessed that happened.
I'm going to be driving soon. I could have started my hours MONTHS ago in September, but we had the early winter and my parents didn't want me out on the roads.
I won't disagree, I wear my nerdiness like a badge of honor!
I doubt you'll get banned; as long as you either return them or go in and explain why they haven't been returned (and pay your fees!) libraries are usually pretty good about understanding.
I think there is exactly one person banned from my library? (And every other library in the county and the next county up, actually...) He apparently had a terrible habit of taking TONS of materials out (expensive stuff, anime DVDs and manga novels) and essentially stealing them by never returning or renewing them.
But with my library, even if you have late books you can still come in and look at the materials without taking them out. They also let you continue to take books out even if you have fees so long as you haven't hit the fee cap. (we have a cap on overdues here, it's really nice, it caps out somewhere around ten or fifteen dollars, that's some month late with five or so books I think?)
His mum is the first person I met in the school system up here; she's guidance secretary, so she told us about the school and gave us all the papers to register and stuff, so that's how we all met.
My mum and his parents get on really well (when we first moved up my beau and his dad both worked at the local grocery store so we saw them all the time and since his mum worked guidance I got to see her several times a year too. ^^; ). For the most part our entire families get on really well, so we don't have to worry about pleasing the in-laws after we marry, yay!
I'm glad you weren't driving over the winter! I would have worried so much about youuuu. And in case you ever visit the south, NEVER drive when there's even a hint of winter weather there. They are all nuts when it comes to winter driving, they terrify me... I also hope you enjoy driving more than I did! I can't remember a time when I EVER actually wanted to drive. Most teenagers look forward to it but I always dreaded the time I would be forced into driver's ed. >>;
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:36 pm
Thanks, Brandy! I'll probably take you up on that offer.
In the immediate future (and by immediate, I mean early May), I'm sure I'll be asking your assistance for my Statistics class.
YES. I finished the semester and took my final exam. Woo~ Not a bad first semester, though. Fall will be a killer!
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:37 pm
Oh, and TRUST ME, as someone who drives to and from school.....driving sucks. emotion_0A0
It's funny. I know a lot of people who don't want to learn how to drive because they're really scared to. They're also all girls. Of course...the majority of the people I talk to are.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:40 pm
Darkness Dragons Revenge I could always do the rolled R's. Then again, I've been speaking Spanish since I was 4 (I was the last class in my school system to receive language education all throughout elementary school and I loved it).
Wow that's a lot of people!
Okay, so I'm not the only one who does that.
AND OMG I DREAM IN ITALIAN!
You know the guy in the Rosetta Stone commercial, who says he dreams in French?
Yah, I do that in Italian, and I hardly know any Italian. I never dreamed in Spanish when I almost knew it fluently.
Spanish and French are close? What? I can't understand one word of French besides a greeting.
Spanish and Italian are so ridiculously close so it's made learning Italian easier.
Well, yes we're close to Canada, but Spanish is the more popular language in America.
Oh I love foreign slang and curses!
Whenever kids in my history class bug me, I say, "Fangool" (I butchered the spelling, but it's pronounced fun-gohul"). It means, "f- you" emotion_kirakira emotion_awesome
And in French, "freche de bach" (again, butchered spelling: "fre-che-de-bach") is, "Face of a pig".
I also know a lot of Italian "sign language" emotion_awesome I learned sign language in elementary school.
It was some kind of outreach with a student teacher? (I went to a tiny rural school for first through fifth in NC.)
It was only one year and we didn't get taught very much, but I still know most of what I was taught.
I've dreamed in Spanish before. I told my beau about it and he looked at me like I was batty. >>;
He also thinks it's kinda weird that I talk to him in Spanish.
BUT. He's learning Italian with me after I told him about DuoLingo! He got the app on his phone. I will be able to say random stuff to him in Italian and he will understand meeee! cat_xd
Written French is VERY similar to Spanish; both Romance languages, so they still use the same roots.
I told a girl in one of my classes in high school to shut up in Russian once. >>;
And I can say "F- You" in French sign language.
I also regularly bite my thumb at people. YAY SHAKESPEARE.
Oh, and NEVER point at things in France. My mum says they consider it extremely rude; enough so that they will throw you out of a business if they catch you doing so.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:44 pm
Blind Blindness Thanks, Brandy! I'll probably take you up on that offer. In the immediate future (and by immediate, I mean early May), I'm sure I'll be asking your assistance for my Statistics class. YES. I finished the semester and took my final exam. Woo~ Not a bad first semester, though. Fall will be a killer! I can help with stats, too~
If it's math, I can figure it out!
I'm looking forward to it, to be honest, It's been a bit since I've helped someone with math. >>;
Yay and congrazzles on finishing out the semester~!
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:55 pm
Queen Spazzy Darkness Dragons Revenge I could always do the rolled R's. Then again, I've been speaking Spanish since I was 4 (I was the last class in my school system to receive language education all throughout elementary school and I loved it).
Wow that's a lot of people!
Okay, so I'm not the only one who does that.
AND OMG I DREAM IN ITALIAN!
You know the guy in the Rosetta Stone commercial, who says he dreams in French?
Yah, I do that in Italian, and I hardly know any Italian. I never dreamed in Spanish when I almost knew it fluently.
Spanish and French are close? What? I can't understand one word of French besides a greeting.
Spanish and Italian are so ridiculously close so it's made learning Italian easier.
Well, yes we're close to Canada, but Spanish is the more popular language in America.
Oh I love foreign slang and curses!
Whenever kids in my history class bug me, I say, "Fangool" (I butchered the spelling, but it's pronounced fun-gohul"). It means, "f- you" emotion_kirakira emotion_awesome
And in French, "freche de bach" (again, butchered spelling: "fre-che-de-bach") is, "Face of a pig".
I also know a lot of Italian "sign language" emotion_awesome I learned sign language in elementary school.
It was some kind of outreach with a student teacher? (I went to a tiny rural school for first through fifth in NC.)
It was only one year and we didn't get taught very much, but I still know most of what I was taught.
I've dreamed in Spanish before. I told my beau about it and he looked at me like I was batty. >>;
He also thinks it's kinda weird that I talk to him in Spanish.
BUT. He's learning Italian with me after I told him about DuoLingo! He got the app on his phone. I will be able to say random stuff to him in Italian and he will understand meeee! cat_xd
Written French is VERY similar to Spanish; both Romance languages, so they still use the same roots.
I told a girl in one of my classes in high school to shut up in Russian once. >>;
And I can say "F- You" in French sign language.
I also regularly bite my thumb at people. YAY SHAKESPEARE.
Oh, and NEVER point at things in France. My mum says they consider it extremely rude; enough so that they will throw you out of a business if they catch you doing so. That's interesting. I'll tell my mom and dad if we ever go to France. They like to point at crap xD Yeah my Nutrition professor, she went on a trip to France, and she said that when she asked to go to the bathroom they didn't want to help her at all xD....and she said she got charged for going to the bathroom. Also, I'm partly French...last name. lol
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:59 pm
Queen Spazzy Blind Blindness Thanks, Brandy! I'll probably take you up on that offer. In the immediate future (and by immediate, I mean early May), I'm sure I'll be asking your assistance for my Statistics class. YES. I finished the semester and took my final exam. Woo~ Not a bad first semester, though. Fall will be a killer! I can help with stats, too~
If it's math, I can figure it out!
I'm looking forward to it, to be honest, It's been a bit since I've helped someone with math. >>;
Yay and congrazzles on finishing out the semester~! Thanks! Yeah, this is a really important class for my major....definitely a milestone, lol....Research methods, a class I'm taking in the fall, is another one of those milestones
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 1:50 pm
I was supposed to go to the library with my friend after school, and he and I didn't have our library cards, so we couldn't go. When I left, he thought we were still going to hang out, and my little brother picked up the phone to tell me that, and I went up and told him we couldn't go. Then he said we should go to a doughnut shop, and we agreed until he said it was raining and we called the whole thing off. Then my brother asked me if we were still going anywhere, and my dad interrupted but I still told him no. Then my dad asked me something else and it confused him, he left the room, and it happened multiple times. I only had to say it to my brother that we weren't going anywhere 3 freaking times to get the point across to him. *faints on floor* I despise repeating myself... scream
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