today i read something on korea and this other book called

a mormon mother, those mormons really liked there polygamy lol

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[QUOTE=Angmar;18352583]I have nightly German homework which is easy but time consuming and really boring for the most part.[/QUOTE]Thought you were learning russkie.

lol that's awesome Ron

[QUOTE=Lexington;18352593]Thought you were learning russkie.[/QUOTE]


I'm teaching myself a little now and then, I plan on taking at least a year or two while I'm here though, we'll see.

he obviously decided to take the easy way out.



psh.

I couldn't have taken it if I wanted to, all the sections that fit in with my schedule had conflicts except for one that was 8:30am every day, so I decided to go with German for the time being, which is cool because I knew some already and it led to me studying in Vienna this upcoming Spring so that will be fun.

bday is on saturday, gonna be with tara all day :)

russian is a pain i toook it for 2 weeks

It's not that bad, just gotta get used to the alphabet.

I've found even some German and Russian vocab is similar, like the word for potato in German is Kartoffel and the word in Russian is Kartoshka.

two whole weeks whoa

doubt I'll ever learn another language, I'm miserable at it

[QUOTE=Angmar;18352628]It's not that bad, just gotta get used to the alphabet.

I've found even some German and Russian vocab is similar, like the word for potato in German is Kartoffel and the word in Russian is Kartoshka.[/QUOTE]

russian has a lot of words that are similar to english words, too. vocabulary isn't the problem, though. it's grammar and pronunciation that are killers.


the russian alphabet is easy. you can easily learn it in a week tops.

[QUOTE=Tyler;18352631]two whole weeks whoa[/QUOTE]

i took arabic for a whole semester

i hate languages

Yeah I have found that grammar is definitely the killer, same with German though, just not to the same degree.

I took French for 12 years and grammar's what made me cut it loose. I can still speak it though, just don't ask me to conjugate things in the Subjonctif tense.

how learning the russian language goes:

1) learn a ton of grammatical/pronunciation rules

2) learn that half of the words don't follow those rules

3) try to say something in russian to a russian speaker and embarrass yourself

4) quit speaking russian with russian speakers

Apparently the German course I'll be taking in Austria is 3 hours a day and no English is spoken, and it's like classes of 8 people. From the sounds of it though there's like zero homework so it shouldn't bee too awful, and it'll probably vastly improve my skills.

[QUOTE=gregulus;18352658]
3) try to say something in russian to a russian speaker and embarrass yourself

4) quit speaking russian with russian speakers[/QUOTE]


looool tell me about it

like if I mention I've learned a little they always want me to speak it with them and I pretty much decline

I know some Spanish. Such an easy language to learn.


I used to talk to my grandfather in German when I was little, but after he died it dropped off and I hardly remember any. :<

so glad I didn't have to take a language class in college, they seem to be the most time consuming classes for my friends

but they do have bs majors and whine about anything so

go to eastern europe for a weekend.


hit on women and avoid neo-nazis.

You guys are so lucky you can't see all these spambots I'm stuck deleting.

where are the spam bots this time

[QUOTE=Tyler;18352673]You guys are so lucky you can't see all these spambots I'm stuck deleting.[/QUOTE]


I've seen a couple in GD lol

[QUOTE=gregulus;18352671]go to eastern europe for a weekend.


hit on women and avoid neo-nazis.[/QUOTE]


I'll be going to Prague, Budapest and Bratislava while I'm there so I intend to, there's a girl I know from Slovakia who goes to school in Prague I met in high school I still keep good contact with, she was hot as fuck.

[QUOTE]I've seen a couple in GD lol[/QUOTE]
nah there are tons now but their posts are hidden, new users have to have their first bunch of posts approved before they show up to the entire userbase

luckily most of them seem to try and post directly into the various "ask the mods" threads

only non bs major is obviously engineering

implying

Brent must have eaten a bad taco today.

taste rating must correlate with mood rating

check his blog and find out

actually my day was great and subway was actually good

Somebody come to san diego and go see Brutal Truth with me next wednesday