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[PixieDust]

Ah sweet! Yea, I've been practicing since probably April or May, so I'm not too advanced, lol! I have to be honest I don't have any relations in Holland (My mother's side is pure Irish), I in fact watched a Dutch move Jongens and was like 'Oh my god I want to learn Dutch all of a sudden" (might have to do with the fact that the main character is actually the most attractive person I've ever seen... and I may be using him for my FC) but I pick up German extremely quickly! I've only been practicing it for a few days and I'm at the same level that I am in Dutch! My dad spoke German (Grandfather was native) but he never spoke it around me, so I have no idea! The fact that Dutch and German are so similar is SO confusing though! Like, all three languages intertwined: Hell.
French: Je - I


Dutch: Je - You


Dutch: De - The (also the fact that you have to learn what is Het and what is De)


German: Die Der Das - The


German: Du - You


French: Du - of the


Not to mention the small spelling differences! Ich and Ik, Hond and Hund, en and er, JEEZ!


Sorry, I have so much to say about languages agh

Swedish is similar to German and Dutch too, it also has a few French words in it, but it's cool because you can go anywhere in Scandinavia or Germany or Holland and understand each other. Finnish is a little difficult though and I've never been great at German...lol You got me going on a language tangent too xD

 

[ItsStacysMom]

I'm glad I'm not alone! I'm also interested in Russian and I KNOW that'll just take the cake in my never-ending tears of language...

 

[Kassandra Rose]

You got three options? Oh my god, I only got two. I picked History and French and boy did I regret it. History is like learning 4 textbooks of by heart as well as other advance skills. As much as I LOVE it, it's a pain in the backside. Also, the only thing we learn about is America, America, America. Like damn, I'd like to learn about my own country too. @ShurikenPhoenix


And I love Dutch so much, I think partially because I love Holland and partially because it's so easy to learn. Like Dutch and English are so similar it's unreal. Where as French, it's completely different and there are like 32 tenses or something. I have always, always wanted to learn Russian but it would just be too hard with whole other alphabet thing @ItsStacysMom

 

[PixieDust]

@Jadea Smyth Oh in the end I started to dislike History. before year 10 we were learning about the Tudors and Hastings and stuff and it was fun, but as soon as it was GCSE we just studied WW1 and 2 in Germany and the Wall Street crash and Al Capone and it was alright but yeah I know what you mean

 

[ItsStacysMom]

@ShurikenPhoenix[/URL]
And I love Dutch so much, I think partially because I love Holland and partially because it's so easy to learn. Like Dutch and English are so similar it's unreal. Where as French, it's completely different and there are like 32 tenses or something. I have always, always wanted to learn Russian but it would just be too hard with whole other alphabet thing @ItsStacysMom

lol yea us Americans just LOVE the spotlight of the Earth haha... Yeah, all we really learn here is about America too, and when we learn about other countries, it always ties BACK to America... although last year we learned about anything other than America... mostly Ancient things, Like Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, all that stuff


I just think that knowing multiple languages is SO cool, and knowing five (I know, it's gonna be a lot of tears) would be SO cool to talk about! Lol I'm learning German from my Dad, who never spoke it in front of me but was fluent and at one time I think he was a translator... and Russian because A) It's cool as hell and B) My grandmother on my father's side was Native Russian, and It'd be cool to know it! But the whole new alphabet thing... yeah, I'm not ready for that lol

 

[Volfy]

Oh god, stop! Why is everyone here so smart? I'm just about managing the standard subjects, let along French, Dutch, German etc on top of that. I've always been horrible at that stuff.


But who needs education right? I can ingrish and count to potato, what more do you ya need?

 

[Les]

Oh god, stop! Why is everyone here so smart? I'm just about managing the standard subjects, let along French, Dutch, German etc on top of that. I've always been horrible at that stuff.
But who needs education right? I can ingrish and count to potato, what more do you ya need?

I don't mean to brag, but I can count to cucumber.

 

[Kassandra Rose]

I stopped getting notifications for this for some reason.


Anyway, I know what you mean @ItsStacysMom. I really want to know Russian myself for that reason, but that alphabet, like seriously no, I couldn't cope. German and Dutch are pretty straight forward, so I'm finding Dutch easy. French is okay, but I mean, I don't particularly love it. I think some languages come more fluently than others. And your dad is fluent German? That's so cool, I think German sounds really pretty, idk why. But your aim is to learn 5?? That's pretty impressive, think imma stick with 3. Maybe if I become fluent in French and Dutch, I'll attempt Russian.


@ShurikenPhoenix you take music, right? I wish I would have taken if but my target for that was only a B. What do you play?


@Volfy @Les


Yeah but I own a potato and a cucumber so who is the real winner here?

 

[ItsStacysMom]

@ItsStacysMom[/URL]. I really want to know Russian myself for that reason, but that alphabet, like seriously no, I couldn't cope. German and Dutch are pretty straight forward, so I'm finding Dutch easy. French is okay, but I mean, I don't particularly love it. I think some languages come more fluently than others. And your dad is fluent German? That's so cool, I think German sounds really pretty, idk why. But your aim is to learn 5?? That's pretty impressive, think imma stick with 3. Maybe if I become fluent in French and Dutch, I'll attempt Russian.


@ShurikenPhoenix you take music, right? I wish I would have taken if but my target for that was only a B. What do you play?

The more I learn, the more I'm interested in languages! For a while French had just completely turned me off the idea of multiple languages, but thinking about it now is so cool!


and @ShurikenPhoenix no way, you're in music? Same here!

 

[Kassandra Rose]

Yeah, the thought is cool but then when you start learning it's like.. Eh. And what do you play? @ItsStacysMom

 

[ItsStacysMom]

@ItsStacysMom[/URL]

I play the oboe, the least impressive instrument to someone who isn't musical... lol


But I also play the guitar, which is a LOT more impressive, and I used to play a bunch of other instruments when I was younger... harp, piano, viola, clarinet... yep


aand turns out that my French teacher wants us to PRINT out ten sheets of work and do them and then correct them, lucky that my printer is low on ink and refuses to print... ahh, How I love French...

 

[Les]

French was a mandatory course for me throughout grade school. (Living in a bilingual country and all.) I know enough to read French and make sense of it. But I can't speak it, or write it all too well. I am looking into taking it as an elective though, when given the chance. I'm really eager to learn another language fluently.


Also, I used to play the Oboe too @ItsStacysMom ! Though I was never very good at it. Drums have always been my thing.

 

[ItsStacysMom]

French was a mandatory course for me throughout grade school. (Living in a bilingual country and all.) I know enough to read French and make sense of it. But I can't speak it, or write it all too well. I am looking into taking it as an elective though, when given the chance. I'm really eager to learn another language fluently.
Also, I used to play the Oboe too @ItsStacysMom ! Though I was never very good at it. Drums have always been my thing.

ahhhh lol yea, All my French exams are reading, writing, and speaking, so I've kind of got most aspects of it down in a very mediocre way lol... Whenever I try making a sentence in Dutch and there's a word I don't know, I fall back to French, so like, 'Ik ben een meisje aussi" cause I don't know the word for 'also' lmao. and when I say something in German with a word i don't know, it falls back onto Dutch! Lol I get confused a LOT


And This is my fourth year playing the oboe, I've gotta practice more before I get back to school though!

 

[PixieDust]

Oh I play piano and now guitar although my main instrument is my voice lol @Jadea Smyth

 

[Jaye]

Argh, so much great talent in here. «twiddles thumbs & hides half-learnt languages»


(Woo~ finally finished my two CS's.)

 

[PixieDust]

I really like everyone's CSs by the way this is super exciting. I feel like mine need longer histories now though haha xD

 

[Volfy]

I really like everyone's CSs by the way this is super exciting. I feel like mine need longer histories now though haha xD

I know what you mean. I was writing my CS sheet and now I'm feeling somewhat in inadequate.

 

[PixieDust]

I know what you mean. I was writing my CS sheet and now I'm feeling somewhat in inadequate.

I'm pretty sure it won't be inadequate, I've already seen some of your CSs before

 

[Jaye]

(Please no one judge their historys by the length of mine they were developed ages ago and their histories are too long I just can't bare to cut them).


I think the average expected length for all the sections is actually pretty short. More like 2-3 sentences for appearance, a paragraph for personality and about 2-3 paragraphs for Story? From what I recall of others CS's?


Anyway I'm pretty excited and also excited to see future CS's (:3)

 

[PixieDust]

It depends on the CS I've had to write some pretty long ones before, but yeah I can't wait to see other CSs too. Maybe another Ravenclaw since at the moment there is one Ravenclaw, three Slyrherins, two Hufflepuffs and two Gryffindors

 

[Jaye]

It depends on the CS I've had to write some pretty long ones before, but yeah I can't wait to see other CSs too. Maybe another Ravenclaw since at the moment there is one Ravenclaw, three Slyrherins, two Hufflepuffs and two Gryffindors

Urgh uneven Houses <_< I'm almost tempted to switch Lott into Ravenclaw but I just can't do that to zir.

 

[PixieDust]

Urgh uneven Houses <_< I'm almost tempted to switch Lott into Ravenclaw but I just can't do that to zir.

I have a Ravenclaw, but she would have left school by now and she's in another RP

 

[Volfy]

Every time I see 'zir', I think of some sort of alien dictator. No clue why.


Also, I think the house's will be a bit more balanced shortly. Hint hint.

 

[PixieDust]

Every time I see 'zir', I think of some sort of alien dictator. No clue why.

There's a guy named Zod in superman maybe that's why

 

[Volfy]

Unlikely since I'm not a big Superman fan. I'm putting it down to that fact it kinda reminds me of Zinyak from SR4. Unrelated, but top game that, had me giggling like a school girl through most of it.