Is That You In Your Avatar? Tonight at EIGHT!- Page 122

[D2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 12:50pm

Hey Polly! How's the reading going?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 12:53pm

jay: Bueno, te voy a escribir después. Necesito practicar mi español antes que se me olvide otra vez. Además, veo que eres de Massachusetts. Yo también. ¡Chau!

[MotorTink]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 12:56pm

Jaily, when don't you feel that way?

[polly2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:10pm

well i got my chapters for the week read already (miracle for me).I need to be doing my spanish work but i'm dawdling.

Hi Jay- nice to meet you (since you speak spanish so well, want to help stagey help me out?? i just wish i had more time to actually study it)

[jaystarr]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:26pm

Polly- Nice to meet you too. No-i'm not good in Spanish.. I have to re-program myself again....I took the summer off and I am going back to school (evening classes) this fall and one of them is Advanced Spanish( Centro Cultura Something'-cant remember ) ( literature, ugh ! )

Taz- Definitely see that movie ! It's so good...

Tink- That boots is turning me on ! baby ! in Spanish..."me pone caliente "

Edit : What happened to that female in leather boots ...BRING IT BACK pleeasse !

Stagemanager- What part of Mass? Ill write you back later

I gotta go back to work.... You guys know that I am at work right now ...

J*



Updated On: 8/2/07 at 01:26 PM

[soapguy17]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:32pm

Tink, you know my Hughdar goes off whenever there a picture of him around! When my Hugh-senses started tingling I was almost tempted to turn the car around and drive back home.

Deeters, are you enjoying Harry Potter so far.

Polly, I'm taking German. I realize that I'll probably never use it in America, but it's an easy foreign language. . . well until you get to all those damn exceptions. *cringes* But, years one and two are pretty easy.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:34pm

Soapy - I know, your hughdar makes me proud. I actually have the Rosetta Stone program for German. I really need to start listening if I plan on going next October.

[polly2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:37pm

too bad my high school didn't offer german. my grandmother would have loved for me to learn german

and they (my college) is on a quarter system, so they cram an entire years worth of whatever into a quarter. so i got an entire years worth of algebra in a quarter, and now spanish (not to mention the other stuff like world civ, etc)

tink where are you going?

[D2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:39pm

Tink, I've been to Germany three times and I've never had a problem - they speak English quite well. It's actually embarrassing that they all make the effort to learn English, and for the most part are multi lingual,and we don't make the effort to learn their languages. Or, for that matter, our own.

Soapy, I'm loving it so far. I wish I could just sit and read it non-stop and not be interrupted by mundane things, like work.

[jaystarr]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:42pm

I took Rosetta Stone (that I borrowed from the library) for Latin-- just to help me understand Spanish better. Its mostly picture association kinda thing... Its hard specially Latin has conjugation & declension....

I took German before in College.. I already forgotten it. I remember being so similar to English.. but then Engish has so much Romance- cognates now...so it seems that theyre not brothers anymore. I took Linguistic Class at Harvard and its very interesting.. to study the different families of languages...these languages were so connected with one another with the exeption of Basque language..

I wish I can study French & Italian.. so similar to Spanish and I'm going to be confuse ! I have classmates that know at least 5 Romance language and they often get so confused with their accents and do horrible in our Spanish Class

J*

Updated On: 8/2/07 at 01:42 PM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:43pm

jay: Worcester County, by the New Hampshire border.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:45pm

Polly - don't have specific plans yet, except it has to be during Oktoberfest. I want to do the normal touristy site seeing.

D2 - I know it is good over there (that and my last name is pretty much plastered EVERYWHERE in some places, lol, my grandparents found that out when they went), but I still want to learn it for myself and just be more into the experience there.

[polly2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:48pm

my great great-something grandparents were from germany. i even have their bible but i don't speak a word. sad really

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:48pm

Addison is online!!


*squee*

[D2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:49pm

Good for you, Tink! D2'sJ2 took German in high school - he doesn't remember much but it's enough to help whenever we are there.

Updated On: 8/2/07 at 01:49 PM

[soapguy17]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:50pm

Polly, Mine too. That's why I'm taking my German classes for about an hour Monday-Friday.Instead of those three and two hour lecture sessions. I think having it everyday will help me piece it together better. I'll most likely end up taking Spanish as well. I assume it might be valuable in some social work jobs.

Edit: My parents aren't from germany, but my college is on the quarter system.

Updated On: 8/2/07 at 01:50 PM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 1:52pm

My heritage is Spanish and Maya Indian. Simple as that.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 2:01pm

My father's from Jamaica, and my mother's African-American. I never bothered to search beyond that.

[jaystarr]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 2:01pm

Spanish is the "unofficial " second language of USA, and youll be suprised how helpful is it to speak Spanish nowadays here in USA. My Linguistic class predicted that "probbably" someday about 500 yrs from now- Spanish will merge with English.. due to all these semantic drifts in English language and the influx of immigrants.
We probbaly only have 3 major languages in the future- Spanish/English combination,
Chinese Mandarin and one from Semitic language family -- most likely its Arabic ...

and unfortunately German & French will die

Edit- My heritage is Filipino , but my grandfather claimed that his father was from Spain --of course- all Filipinos claimed that If its true I guess I have a drop of
Latin heat in me

J*

Updated On: 8/2/07 at 02:01 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 2:02pm

Of course, I take French as it starts to die. I suppose that would explain why there is one class for French in my year.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 2:08pm

I just bought Feist's new CD "The Remember" it is really AMAZING. She's my new hero.

[D2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 2:10pm

Don't let the French hear you say their language is dying. They're worse than any fangirl on the main board when it comes to getting defensive about anything.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 2:12pm

Deet, do you have stories?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 2:13pm

The French are bred to die for love...

[MotorTink]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 2:14pm

D2 - was that an implication that Adam is too old to be in RENT? Huh? Was that what you were trying to say????


:)