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[Ragazza]

My friends were writing to each other, "sw jw fk yrslf" was hard for me to initially decipher . Such a complicated language. I'd love to learn it, but apparently it's nearly impossible unless you've grown up with it.

Yeah, learning a new language as well as a new alphabet is really challenging. A (white American) friend of mine started taking Japanese courses in uni & is now nearly fluent, it really is an achievement.

I've been having a hard enough time with Italian, I understand enough to get at least the gist of articles I read in the papers for example, and I have both Pirlo's & Zanetti's books which have helped a lot. But I certainly don't feel confident enough to be able to carry on more than the most basic conversation. I couldn't even imagine learning something like Arabic, Japanese or Hebrew.

 

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[AFL_ITALIA]

Yeah, learning a new language as well as a new alphabet is really challenging. A (white American) friend of mine started taking Japanese courses in uni & is now nearly fluent, it really is an achievement.

I've been having a hard enough time with Italian, I understand enough to get at least the gist of articles I read in the papers for example, and I have both Pirlo's & Zanetti's books which have helped a lot. But I certainly don't feel confident enough to be able to carry on more than the most basic conversation. I couldn't even imagine learning something like Arabic, Japanese or Hebrew.

I would love to learn Italian, I have to pick it up again after finals. Japanese from what I've heard isn't too bad.

 

[Zé Tahir]

My friends were writing to each other, "sw jw fk yrslf" was hard for me to initially decipher . Such a complicated language. I'd love to learn it, but apparently it's nearly impossible unless you've grown up with it.

I don't even speak Arabic but Urdu is written with the same alphabet. Also it helps that I know how to read Quranic Arabic.

 

[ZoSo]

Look at the mannequins on this site...wtf were they thinking?

http://www.23jerseys.net/Soccer-Jacket_c2387.html

 

[Hængebøffer]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/uruguay-president-jose-mujica

 

[JuveJay]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/uruguay-president-jose-mujica

'no religion'

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I would love to learn Italian, I have to pick it up again after finals. Japanese from what I've heard isn't too bad.

Maybe from someone who has a large Broca's area

The difficult things for a westerner are getting to grips with characters, kanji and grammatical structure (SOV vs SVO that we know). This is why it gets characterised with the most difficult languages. But in terms of grammatical tense, plurality and phonology (words sounding similar are also a problem) it's a lot easier than English and associated languages. Kanji is just repetition, memorising.

 

[Dostoevsky]

@swag




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I just watched a movie. Gonna chill and read a book for a while. I'll go workout later today and catch the Coppa match after.

 

[Cuti]

I just watched a movie. Gonna chill and read a book for a while. I'll go workout later today and catch the Coppa match after.

being at work for 9 hours, and studying my mba at the same time, while you post something like this, makes me really hate you haha

 

[Dostoevsky]

being at work for 9 hours, and studying my mba at the same time, while you post something like this, makes me really hate you haha

believe it or not I'm quite bored and I don't really like this life style. No pace at all, not many things going on... I'm not used to this and so far I'm not a fan. Every day is basically the same.

 

[JuveJay]

believe it or not I'm quite bored and I don't really like this life style. No pace at all, not many things going on... I'm not used to this and so far I'm not a fan. Every day is basically the same.

That sort of lifestyle is ok for a month tops, unless you have stacks of cash. Even then I'd get bored within 6 months.

 

[Dostoevsky]

That sort of lifestyle is ok for a month tops, unless you have stacks of cash. Even then I'd get bored within 6 months.

I liked it for 2 weeks, then it started killing me. Months of it are a guaranteed semi-depression for sure.

But yeah, it's usually the cash that's the difference.

 

[Cuti]

the idea of doing fuck all is really nice when you are constantly swamped like I am. My life is in such a routine. work 8-5; get home at around 530-6; play football 3 times a week at around 7, get home by 830/845, then either watch football or go to a friend.

If I had to win the euromillions lottery, i'd stop working and chill for a while, then I would travel around the world

 

[JuveJay]

the idea of doing fuck all is really nice when you are constantly swamped like I am. My life is in such a routine. work 8-5; get home at around 530-6; play football 3 times a week at around 7, get home by 830/845, then either watch football or go to a friend.

If I had to win the euromillions lottery, i'd stop working and chill for a while, then I would travel around the world

Sometimes it's better not having time to think about things. Just a little time to do what you want, but not start contemplating your next move

 

[Dostoevsky]

Holy crap I'm so sleepy it's insane! But I'm about to go lift weights, it might end really bad lol.

But here we go, against all odds, lets do it!

Gotta destroy dem pecks.

 

[Yuckerini]

I have the flu and I haven't been taking any medicine. I've been sick for around 5-6 days and I wake up sweating with the chills with a terrible headache.

What do you guys recommend I do?

 

[Hængebøffer]

I have the flu and I haven't been taking any medicine. I've been sick for around 5-6 days and I wake up sweating with the chills with a terrible headache.

What do you guys recommend I do?

Water, water and more water. If it doesn't help; whiskey, whiskey and more whiskey.

 

[Ragazza]

'Maybe from someone who has a large Broca's area

The difficult things for a westerner are getting to grips with characters, kanji and grammatical structure (SOV vs SVO that we know). This is why it gets characterised with the most difficult languages. But in terms of grammatical tense, plurality and phonology (words sounding similar are also a problem) it's a lot easier than English and associated languages. Kanji is just repetition, memorising.

Yeah, besides all the characters, the sentence structure would be what gets me too.

I have a friend who's learning Basque, I was taught one sentence: "he/she has a nice ass". But literally translated back to English, it reads something like "boy/girl this ass nice the".

 

[Lapa]

well it's MY piss







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Btw, we need the opinions of @JCK, @Red and @swag, fine drinkers, to settle this

as well as the opinion of @Lapa, heavy drinker

Not sure what I'm asked here. But I will give you guys a theory. When you are really drunk, corners don't exist. Most of you probably have woke up with a wound on your head since you walked into some corner that really wasn't there (at the moment). So basically when you are really drunk and you live in your own little world of only round rooms and streets, there's no corner to put your baby. But it's just a theory.

 

[Fr3sh]

I have the flu and I haven't been taking any medicine. I've been sick for around 5-6 days and I wake up sweating with the chills with a terrible headache.

What do you guys recommend I do?

Stay in bed, drink lots, smoke a joint, try to eat even though you don't have an appetite atm. Honey helps to with your throat, and take some advil or somthing.

 

[Dostoevsky]

I have the flu and I haven't been taking any medicine. I've been sick for around 5-6 days and I wake up sweating with the chills with a terrible headache.

What do you guys recommend I do?

Tea with honey. Lots of.