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[Iona]

I took French, and I liked it a lot. I went to France, so I got to use it a bit, but when I was in Paris, as soon as I started speaking in French, I would get responses in English. I did have to use it in northern France though. The funny this is, now I need to know Spanish for my trips in central america.

 

I think asian languages are really difficult, because the structure is so different.

 

Woo, I've been to Paris too! Several times. ^^

Yeah, they get so many tourists so their English is usually awesome and they like to speak it, haha.

 

Good luck with Spanish! It's a lot easier to speak than French, in my opinion.

 

Yep. Though in some cases the structure is a lot simpler. (in a grammatical sense)

With Chinese, I find the hardest thing is that you can't guess how to say a word because the characters don't symbolise certain sounds. Unlike with the NATO phonetic alphabet which English uses, you cannot guess how to pronounce a word by simply looking at it.

[Spritzie]

I've always thought ASL was such a beautiful language. A girl I've known my whole life (her mom and my mom worked together before my parents had even met) started going to a sign language church a few years ago. I went with her a few times. It was really a cool experience. And now she's married to someone she met there who was an interpretor. (She actually got married almost exactly 6 months after me.)

 

I haven't actively used sign language in over 10 years, and I still remember a lot of it. (It helps that it's very visual, like how the sign for Cat is where you act like you're straightening whiskers.)

 

And it's been 12 years since I left middle school and even now, I'll run into some of the deaf kids I used to talk to, and they still remember me and invite me to do stuff with them.

[Tedhaun]

I never really took a lot of language classes, only had Spanish and Portuguese (and French, I think) in middle school, that's it.

I may want to learn how to speak Malay and Vietnamese someday, since I have Neofriends that reside in Malaysia and Vietnam.

[:)Doc]

Each school year is divided into sections. There's semesters. (2 a year, first half of the year, and second half) and each semester is broken into 2 quarters. (The quarters aren't really important.)

 

But each semester/half a year of a class, is considered a credit. So there were 8 credits required for English. So you either had to take a English class every semester of every year, or take more than one some semesters.

 

They required like, 11 credits of electives, 4 credits of a foreign language, 4 credits of PE, 6 credits of math, etc. And you could only graduate once you fulfilled the credit requirements.

 

Ohhhhh! That never made sense to me until I read that.

 

Sometimes you just gotta dumb it down for me people ;)

[IrishLiz]

Woo, I've been to Paris too! Several times. ^^

Yeah, they get so many tourists so their English is usually awesome and they like to speak it, haha.

 

Good luck with Spanish! It's a lot easier to speak than French, in my opinion.

 

Yep. Though in some cases the structure is a lot simpler. (in a grammatical sense)

With Chinese, I find the hardest thing is that you can't guess how to say a word because the characters don't symbolise certain sounds. Unlike with the NATO phonetic alphabet which English uses, you cannot guess how to pronounce a word by simply looking at it.

Oh thanks! The thing is, I can't roll my r's, so they were teasing me about that the whole time I was there for my last trip. They also do a single rolled r that's similar to how we do a "d" in English... I can't do that either. XD It's interesting because their Spanish has a very different accent from the Northern Mexican accent I'm used to hearing here in Arizona. My other problem with Spanish is that I think of the French equivalent first and then have to wrack my brain to remember what it is in Spanish. o_O

 

I've always thought ASL was such a beautiful language. A girl I've known my whole life (her mom and my mom worked together before my parents had even met) started going to a sign language church a few years ago. I went with her a few times. It was really a cool experience. And now she's married to someone she met there who was an interpretor. (She actually got married almost exactly 6 months after me.)

 

I haven't actively used sign language in over 10 years, and I still remember a lot of it. (It helps that it's very visual, like how the sign for Cat is where you act like you're straightening whiskers.)

 

And it's been 12 years since I left middle school and even now, I'll run into some of the deaf kids I used to talk to, and they still remember me and invite me to do stuff with them.

That's really neat! A friend of mine has a sibling that is deaf, so everyone in her family signs. I think it can be really beautiful. That's neat that you can still remember it. I used to go to a church with an interpreter because there was one family that went there that was deaf. I think it's neat that they had an interpreter for just that one family.

[Spritzie]

That's really neat! A friend of mine has a sibling that is deaf, so everyone in her family signs. I think it can be really beautiful. That's neat that you can still remember it. I used to go to a church with an interpreter because there was one family that went there that was deaf. I think it's neat that they had an interpreter for just that one family.

 

I still find myself signing certain things, like to certain words of songs. I used to do that a lot.

 

My dad wanted to learn sign language because his hearing is going. He had a lot of ear infections when he was a kid, so his hearing was damaged and now, if he's somewhere with a lot of background noise, or a lot of people, he has a hard time, and resorts to lip reading. But for it do any good, me and my mom would have to do it as well, otherwise he'd lose what he learned.

 

I've meet some really amazing deaf people. One woman from my friend's church was partly deaf and blind. So to help her at meetings, she'd sit right in front of a TV screen. (They had TVs through out the church so that everyone could see if they weren't close enough to see the people actually signing.) And then there was one man that was totally blind and deaf, so he had his own interpreter that would sign under his hands. And one woman had actually lost an arm, so she could only sign with one arm.

[Lemur]

I still find myself signing certain things, like to certain words of songs. I used to do that a lot.

 

My dad wanted to learn sign language because his hearing is going. He had a lot of ear infections when he was a kid, so his hearing was damaged and now, if he's somewhere with a lot of background noise, or a lot of people, he has a hard time, and resorts to lip reading. But for it do any good, me and my mom would have to do it as well, otherwise he'd lose what he learned.

 

I've meet some really amazing deaf people. One woman from my friend's church was partly deaf and blind. So to help her at meetings, she'd sit right in front of a TV screen. (They had TVs through out the church so that everyone could see if they weren't close enough to see the people actually signing.) And then there was one man that was totally blind and deaf, so he had his own interpreter that would sign under his hands. And one woman had actually lost an arm, so she could only sign with one arm.

 

I've always wanted to become fluent in sign language. I've learned some songs in sign language though and that has been kind of cool. I think the sign language used in Australia is quite different from in American though :-(

[Wembly]

The only sign language I know are things that would not really help to have an actual conversations with like random words such as "giraffe" "prison" "baby" "rotten" "bug" "skunk" :whistle:

[:)Doc]

I know two sign language gestures and neither are really appropriate :rolleyes_anim:

[IrishLiz]

Spritzie, those sound like some amazing people. It kinda reminds me of Helen Keller with the multiple handicaps.

 

The only sign language I know are things that would not really help to have an actual conversations with like random words such as "giraffe" "prison" "baby" "rotten" "bug" "skunk" :whistle:

 

I know two sign language gestures and neither are really appropriate :rolleyes_anim:

Wow, you guys are funny. :laughingsmiley:

I know the kid's song "Jesus Loves Me" because we learned it in church when I was a little kid.

[Hubert]

I used to know a lots of sign language, since some of my friends take courses. But my memory (and especially my language memory) is really bad, so I only know inappropriate words too, haha. Except for the Swedish sign for sea turtle.

[:)Doc]

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, you guys are funny. :laughingsmiley:

 

 

I try my hardest to entertain anyone -bows- :D

[-Ryan]

You go, girl! @ Doc

 

 

You'll have to teach me some sign language some time, btw. xD

[:)Doc]

You go, girl! @ Doc

 

 

You'll have to teach me some sign language some time, btw. xD

 

Just a fyi, I'm a guy :P

 

Lol. Maybe. Doubt it though :)

[Spritzie]

For me at least, ASL was super easy to learn on my own. I taught myself from a variety of ASL books. And I had some help from some of the kids at school.

[:)Doc]

For me at least, ASL was super easy to learn on my own. I taught myself from a variety of ASL books. And I had some help from some of the kids at school.

 

Uh... Spritzie, what's ASL? Is that some kind of special class you have to take in high school or something? :worried:

[Spritzie]

No it isn't. ASL stands for American Sign Language.

[:)Doc]

No it isn't. ASL stands for American Sign Language.

 

Oh. That makes A LOT more sense. :) I feel smarticle.

[Domino]

I wish I could ...speak? I dunno what the correct verb is. Anyway, we can "take" it at my school, but you have to go to the local community college for the classes. I kind of wish that I had done it...I dunno that they even offer it, now that I think about it.

 

One of my best friends moms is a teacher at a school where she both teaches and signs, and sometimes when she's just talking normally, she'll be signing at the same time. Quite interesting to watch. :)

[Spritzie]

You're lucky Domino. They didn't offer at all here. If I wanted to take a class, I'd have to have done it on my own.

 

:laughingsmiley: My friend is like that. She'd be talking to me, then suddenly start signing as well. I'm like, you know I can't keep up with you right? And she was a horrible at interpreting. When a couple was signing the story of how they met, she was saying it out-loud for me, and she'd randomly stop talking, busy watching, or she'd get ahead of them, and say things that they hadn't said, and weren't going to.

[:)Doc]

:laughingsmiley: My friend is like that. She'd be talking to me, then suddenly start signing as well. I'm like, you know I can't keep up with you right? And she was a horrible at interpreting. When a couple was signing the story of how they met, she was saying it out-loud for me, and she'd randomly stop talking, busy watching, or she'd get ahead of them, and say things that they hadn't said, and weren't going to.

 

That'd be weird!

 

Ah, the first time since I've returned Google has started following me again :P

 

Random, and off subject, has anyone ever had iTunes just plain steal money from you? They've been rejecting my card for the past fortnight (heh big word :P) and turns out, they were taking the money out of my account that I was trying to spend. :grrr: Pretty irritating.

[Spritzie]

I don't buy music from iTunes. I put my own CDs on my iPod.

[rachiee]

I haven't had any problems with purchasing songs from iTunes in about a year. I bought the same song twice (it didn't appear in my library the first time), contacted iTunes and didn't get a refund, but instead got back "store credit" or whatever it's called. :P And I used the aforementioned store credit on a Justin Bieber song. xD

 

(Random fact: I have over $300 of music on my computer. I'm a good girl who buys all her music and only gets free music if it's promoted by iTunes 0:))

[Masaryk]

I have never used iTunes. I won an iPod several years ago. The minute I opened the box, I installed Linux on it. After a few days, I decided that it wasn't the best choice, and I installed Rockbox instead. All of my music on it comes from stuff I have on CD.

[:)Doc]

I don't like downloading illegally. I used Limewire: but then they got caught, so I kinda quit doing that :P

 

I don't like downloading music straight from CD's for two reasons: One, the iPod doesn't get a cover of the album, which makes it look weird to me, and Two, I only have like 5 CD's :P