Rooty Hill Holiday Inn Superthread

[Axver]

See you later, Jen and Danny!

 

[bono_212]

have we been to Fukyu, Japan yet?

 

[The Sad Punk]

How come we haven't been to Shitlington Crags?

 

[cobl04]

can i do it?!?!? i never have before. ill go to bed in a sec.

and the last 30 seconds of EPAA is pretty good.
shame bono sounds like he is drifting in and out of consciousness during the actual song.

 

[bono_212]

The last couple of minutes in particular are fantastic.

Seriously, I realize i'm always going on about the song...but God I love the last few lines of lyric.

 

[JanuaryStar]

Has this thread been to Blue Ball yet?

 

[coolian2]

So the quality of the teaching is a big problem? Aren't there any foreign institutes which try to put an effort in teaching languages to people? Native speakers who can help out with learning foreign languages, for example? I think it's very important for people who want to learn other languages than their native language, to be given the opportunity to do so.

I had some French classes in high school - one teacher who was from France was more interested in presentation of work than actually teaching us anything, and the other one wasn't a bad teacher, but again the focus was on useless things like presentation than learning words or speaking the language.

 

[bono_212]

can i do it?!?!? i never have before. ill go to bed in a sec.

and the last 30 seconds of EPAA is fantastic.
Amazing how bono sounds like he is drifting in and out of consciousness during the actual song.

Fix'd

 

[The Sad Punk]

Haha, I didn't know there was a place called Adios, either.

I guess I usually skip the first couple letters.

 

[Axver]

Was it compulsory in primary? I must have been sick that day. Or it was those two years i lived in Australia.

And there was no learning any Maori in any of my high school classes, but we certainly got a lot of Maori history. With all due respect, how many consecutive years can you reasonably accept learning the same thing before you just don't give a fuck anymore?

We did a fair bit of Maori at my primary school. Maybe it's not compulsory nationwide? I think we had a specific Maori lesson every week, and certain units would require extra class time. I was actually pretty good at Maori and probably would have become fluent had I stayed in New Zealand. The college I would've attended had a very good Maori programme. Nowadays, I just know the anthem, counting, kia ora, and a few other words here and there.

Oh, we did far too much fucking Aussie European history. It was maddening. I mean, great, learn the stuff, but don't fucking repeat what we did last year. And have more damn scope!

Though Ian, be grateful you got Kiwi history. My mother was solely taught American history. She went to college on the Kapiti Coast!

 

[JanuaryStar]

I had some French classes in high school - one teacher who was from France was more interested in presentation of work than actually teaching us anything, and the other one wasn't a bad teacher, but again the focus was on useless things like presentation than learning words or speaking the language.

Hmm, such a shame... French is a beautiful language and comes in handy when visiting different countries.

 

[cobl04]

How about Westward Ho!??

Westward Ho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!

i wanna do it

 

[Axver]

can i do it?!?!? i never have before. ill go to bed in a sec.

It's all yours. I like Bonnie's suggestion: Shitlington Crags - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Axver]

How about Westward Ho!??

Westward Ho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!

i wanna do it

Oooh, do that. I've periodically been suggesting that for a while but we haven't gotten around to it. Don't forget the punctuation in the name!

 

[JanuaryStar]

We did a fair bit of Maori at my primary school. Maybe it's not compulsory nationwide? I think we had a specific Maori lesson every week, and certain units would require extra class time. I was actually pretty good at Maori and probably would have become fluent had I stayed in New Zealand. The college I would've attended had a very good Maori programme. Nowadays, I just know the anthem, counting, kia ora, and a few other words here and there.

Oh, we did far too much fucking Aussie European history. It was maddening. I mean, great, learn the stuff, but don't fucking repeat what we did last year. And have more damn scope!

Though Ian, be grateful you got Kiwi history. My mother was solely taught American history. She went to college on the Kapiti Coast!

Although I've never been to Australia or New Zealand, I've always been interested in cultural aspects, we had a host teacher at school some years back who came to tell us all about Maori culture and traditions - pretty interesting I have to say. We even learned some words, but I have to be honest I don't know any of those words anymore...

 

[coolian2]

We did a fair bit of Maori at my primary school. Maybe it's not compulsory nationwide? I think we had a specific Maori lesson every week, and certain units would require extra class time. I was actually pretty good at Maori and probably would have become fluent had I stayed in New Zealand. The college I would've attended had a very good Maori programme. Nowadays, I just know the anthem, counting, kia ora, and a few other words here and there.

Oh, we did far too much fucking Aussie European history. It was maddening. I mean, great, learn the stuff, but don't fucking repeat what we did last year. And have more damn scope!

Though Ian, be grateful you got Kiwi history. My mother was solely taught American history. She went to college on the Kapiti Coast!

I managed to bail on the class that had American history.

History was at it's most interesting in sixth form, where we covered Europe around World War Two. Fifth form was pretty heavy on New Zealand stuff.

Frankly, by seventh form we were New Zealanded out. Sure, it's nice but at that stage we wanted to look further.

 

[The Sad Punk]

I would like to know how EPAA kind of came into being. Did they hire some Pueblo Indian shaman to come and cast a spell on Bono that would make him vomit his spirit or something?

 

[coolian2]

Hmm, such a shame... French is a beautiful language and comes in handy when visiting different countries.

Exactly. I want to have another shot at learning it, when i get around to it.

That or Portuguese, just to be perverse and not to do Spanish.

 

[The Sad Punk]

We learned Spanish at school, by the way. I should probably learn that, relations in South America and such.

 

[JanuaryStar]

Okay new thread needed!

I'm voting for Westward Ho too

 

[bono_212]

I would like to know how EPAA kind of came into being. Did they hire some Pueblo Indian shaman to come and cast a spell on Bono that would make him vomit his spirit or something?

Replace Pueblo Indiana Shaman with Brian Eno, and I think you've about got it.

 

[JanuaryStar]

Spanish is a great language too, also very useful in so many countries. Spanish is easier to learn than French, in my opinion.

 

[coolian2]

We learned Spanish at school, by the way. I should probably learn that, relations in South America and such.

I know that our expert Spanish teacher was an Asian guy, that by all accounts was not good at his job. People who took it generally were taking it to kill an hour.

Ole!

 

[Axver]

I had some French classes in high school - one teacher who was from France was more interested in presentation of work than actually teaching us anything, and the other one wasn't a bad teacher, but again the focus was on useless things like presentation than learning words or speaking the language.

I felt my German classes were more "here's useful travel phrases" than "let's teach you to be fluent". My friend and I were the top two German students at my school. Yet when we had visiting German exchange students, we were too shy to talk to them, and we could barely hold anything more than a basic conversation and ask useless questions.

In grade 12, our German teacher tried to teach a Goethe unit, but that failed spectacularly since none of us knew even remotely enough German to comprehend it. Our teacher was English but had lived in Germany, and her husband (who was a maths teacher!) was German.

 

[Axver]

Danny, chop chop, we need to go to Westward Ho! and we need to go now!

 

[JanuaryStar]

German is a language I really don't like to use a lot... But luckily it's not very difficult for Dutch people since Germans are our neighbours. I don't see myself going to Germany for a holiday soon, though, but it is useful when going to other German-speaking countries like Austria or Switzerland.

 

[coolian2]

I felt my German classes were more "here's useful travel phrases" than "let's teach you to be fluent". My friend and I were the top two German students at my school. Yet when we had visiting German exchange students, we were too shy to talk to them, and we could barely hold anything more than a basic conversation and ask useless questions.

In grade 12, our German teacher tried to teach a Goethe unit, but that failed spectacularly since none of us knew even remotely enough German to comprehend it. Our teacher was English but had lived in Germany, and her husband (who was a maths teacher!) was German.

Heh, the one German teacher in the school took our form class for a supervised study period. We did not like her at all. We were always excited about the class because it was a free opportunity for us to act up and hope that she cracked down on it comically. It was always worth the 250 word half-arse essays we got in that class.

 

[JanuaryStar]

Danny, chop chop, we need to go to Westward Ho! and we need to go now!

He's probably gone off to bed already

 

[coolian2]

Hurry up with the new thread, i'm tired!

 

[Axver]

Hmm, such a shame... French is a beautiful language and comes in handy when visiting different countries.

I always wanted to learn French. French and Latin. Both seem to be awesome languages - and, well, my name is French (it's André). But my high school offered just Japanese and German. We did have a qualified French teacher, but he was also a qualified maths teacher and they employed him for that rather than for French.