Angela Harlem
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is it playing with its touchpad??
I got to the touchpad first.
is it playing with its touchpad??
Of course I speak it fairly fluently, I's azn.
So where'd you learn to speak Mandarin?
Y'know, One Step Closer really is a fantastic song.
Of course I speak it fairly fluently, I's azn.
Oh crap, yes, that. Sorry! Been busy all weekend and Monday. Barely at home these days...
Chinese
I began learning Mandarin at uni. I got through 1 unit with a credit and had to take a semester off to gear up for more - I don't do failure well . I've got 4 units in total. It's a fascinating language, really. Hard though, as there's technically 2 languages to learn (and I reckon that's cheating!! ), but really fun.
And yet you sometimes seem whiter than my albino self ...
I took Japanese in high school, and it's my minor in college, but I've now had to take a full year off of it because of scheduling difficulties.
I'm terrified to go back now :shudder:
Yeah, wait till I get my hat and trenchcoat look going next week... I'll look like someone out of the Prohibition era. An Asian member of the Italian mob maybe?
Yeah, wait till I get my hat and trenchcoat look going next week... I'll look like someone out of the Prohibition era. An Asian member of the Italian mob maybe?
Yeah, Jap's equally complicated, if not worse.
*steals idea and writes script for new Jackie Chan film*
Speaking of which, anyone watched The Forbidden Kingdom, featuring Jet Li and Jackie Chan? It's gonna come out soon here, but it's out everywhere else. I've got a copy of it on my computer, but have thus far resisted the temptation to watch it so I can see it in a cinema.
By my reckoning, the fight scene between Jet Li and Jackie Chan will be, for a martial artist like myself, better than sex.
I know a few random words in several languages, but my second laguage is American Sign Language. My second langauge is another American thing. Now I feel lazy.I, uh, think I'll stick with European languages, thanks. :lazy:
Oh, and Maori. Maori's sweet. And makes it sound like you swear in the Kiwi anthem. Ata whakarongona is a line in the first verse.
Hey Reggo!
You better wear this on Tuesday. Actually, is there a concert on Tuesday?
Oh, awesome!
It's ridiculous to learn, what with the speaking and writing and the sheer complexity of both, and the fact that one written word can mean several things and one spoken word may in fact be several written words, and so on.
The best way to learn it though, I reckon, is by immersion - I like to watch Asian films with, then without subtitles when I feel like catching up on my Chinese. Plus, the films usually involve martial arts, which I do too, so that's always a bonus.
I don't know that it's worse, Chinese scares me shitless. But Japanese is ridiculously hard. I've been studying it six years now, and still couldn't survive in Japan on my own. Well...when I was "lost" in Tokyo, my friend and I were able to successfully ask that policeman where McDonalds was *Knowing the Japanese for McDonalds FTW*
I really wanna see that because the idea of both of them in a movie = win. However, I will say that after that movie came out in theaters I never heard another word about it, so that doesn't sound like it did too well. But I could be wrong.
The ad at the top reads for me: Listen to U2 album, NSW Immigration and NSW concerts. They may be on to me!
Pity I don't live in NSW, eh?