The Temple Bar.....Let's point and laugh at BoMac's illiteracy....MUYFA!

[U2Fanatic4ever]

rly BoMac... sounds like major stuff going on there... well, good luck to you whatever ur decision maybe.

 

[VintagePunk]

I'm a tri-lingual anglophone

Show-off. I barely have English down. lol

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

morning gabe

 

[VintagePunk]

Er....no. Work-related.

Awesome! Good for you.

 

[BoMac]

Show-off. I barely have English down. lol

 

[redhotswami]

Show-off. I barely have English down. lol

i ain't much for that book learnin stuff.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

i really admire people who are well versed in multiple languages... wish that was me..

 

[mad1]

complicated net time.

 

[VintagePunk]

At my school, we have to take two language credits. Or, we can take a culture course taught in English. The latter course I wanted was full, so I took French for Dummies, because my daughter went to French immersion school and is pretty much fluent and I thought she could help me. Omg, what a disaster. Lowered my GPA. For the second credit, I took Russian culture. That went much better.

I phail at languages.

 

[redhotswami]

Oooh Russian culture? That sounds fun!
I've studied Spanish for like 9 or 10 years...I still suck at it. I've also studied Japanese for 1 year, and I think I did better at Japanese than I did Spanish.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

At my school, we have to take two language credits. Or, we can take a culture course taught in English. The latter course I wanted was full, so I took French for Dummies, because my daughter went to French immersion school and is pretty much fluent and I thought she could help me. Omg, what a disaster. Lowered my GPA. For the second credit, I took Russian culture. That went much better.

I phail at languages.

i phail too. Took 3 yrs of Spanish in college and a couple of years in high school..... All I got out of it was understanding some of spoken spanish but no way close to being fluent. I know that convesational spanish I was a chicken sh**t to speak in front of people, so I guess that didn't help much.

 

[VintagePunk]

Oooh Russian culture? That sounds fun!
I've studied Spanish for like 9 or 10 years...I still suck at it. I've also studied Japanese for 1 year, and I think I did better at Japanese than I did Spanish.

It really was. It was a mixture of history and art/literature, and the way the arts and political cultures influenced each other. It was in two parts, and I only got to take one one of them, because of taking that fucking french class, so I didn't have room for the second one.

 

[BoMac]

I phail at languages.

Really? I'm adept with different tongues.

 

[mad1]

this place is really strange today.

lack of Zoot posting and Elfa barely.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

Really? I'm adept with different tongues.

 

[redhotswami]

It really was. It was a mixture of history and art/literature, and the way the arts and political cultures influenced each other. It was in two parts, and I only got to take one one of them, because of taking that fucking french class, so I didn't have room for the second one.

I was always more into the other aspects of culture outside of the language itself. I did enjoy reading poetry from other languages though. It's amazing how sometimes things can get lost in translation. Sometimes things just sound better when not spoken in English. Ha.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

this place is really strange today.

lack of Zoot posting and Elfa barely.

I think all the marriage talk frightened Zoots away...

 

[mad1]

I think so too



even thou it was all net, he thought it was real.

 

[VintagePunk]

Really? I'm adept with different tongues.

Different? You have spares?

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

poor bastard... I don't blame him though... Marriage talk tends to frighten and confuse us males...

 

[VintagePunk]

I was always more into the other aspects of culture outside of the language itself. I did enjoy reading poetry from other languages though. It's amazing how sometimes things can get lost in translation. Sometimes things just sound better when not spoken in English. Ha.

I can read basic French to get by, but that's about it. Certainly not enough to attempt reading poetry or anything. Of course, it's an official language here, so it's on all of our packaging and gov't documents and such. My brain just can't seem to absorb learning a language. It's so much easier for kids.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

^ for some it sure does.

 

[mad1]

yea but, I would really marry *the dude*




not him!

ha, ach well, but I am correct on narrowing in to my senses on how today is not the same as last week since the last day.

Trusting instinct!



so right, SO RIGHT!

 

[redhotswami]

I can read basic French to get by, but that's about it. Certainly not enough to attempt reading poetry or anything. Of course, it's an official language here, so it's on all of our packaging and gov't documents and such. My brain just can't seem to absorb learning a language. It's so much easier for kids.

I've invented my own language, VP, and I guarantee you will excel in it after just meeting me once. Mianese is apparently catching on!

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

I can read basic French to get by, but that's about it. Certainly not enough to attempt reading poetry or anything. Of course, it's an official language here, so it's on all of our packaging and gov't documents and such. My brain just can't seem to absorb learning a language. It's so much easier for kids.

yep. kids have sponges for brains they absorb everything. It is so much easier for them. I wish that second languages were more enforced in public schools when I was a kid things might have been different for me...

 

[mad1]

Vintage, I cannot learn either.

I only know basic French too.

 

[VintagePunk]

I've invented my own language, VP, and I guarantee you will excel in it after just meeting me once. Mianese is apparently catching on!

Does it involve copious amounts of alcohol?

Damn, I hardly drink these days. I'm going to have to find out well beforehand when we're getting together, and practice. :lame:

 

[BoMac]

I lost most of the Mandarin I had learned whilst in China.

VP, while it's true that learning a new language becomes more difficult as one ages, I think it becomes easier if you're immersed in that culture. So, while you may find it difficult now, should you one day live in France, for example, your proficiency in French will see a marked improvement.

And Mianese is indeed a great language, one that may very well sweep the planet one day and take its rightful place alongside French, English, Spanish and all the great languages of our time.

 

[redhotswami]

Does it involve copious amounts of alcohol?

Damn, I hardly drink these days. I'm going to have to find out well beforehand when we're getting together, and practice. :lame:

not necessarily, but it certainly helps!

we should do a wine tasting thing! i've never done one. we can rent a limo and feel like rockstars hoping from one winery to the next.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I took Japanese in college... I don't think I can remember anything beyond counting to 3...

I can't remember much French either, even though I took it all the way up to grade 9, I don't think I'm a good learner when it comes to languages.