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Post by lisajane on Dec 8, 2008 20:31:03 GMT -5
I think you're better off teaching yourself a language... my brother went to France on an exchange program, but didn't speak a word of French - he taught himself as much French as he could within three months and the exchange program people believed him to be fluent in it.
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Post by zemira on Dec 9, 2008 8:53:32 GMT -5
I think it depends a lot on the teacher, and which medium you learn through. My high school teachers were both American, and I learned a tiny bit of Spanish from them. But the state required them to teach certain items which meant we were learning Spanish that wouldn't help us at all in Spain or Mexico. But when I took Japanese, I had a small Japanese woman, still with a very thick accent. And she was a university teacher, so she wasn't as limited with what she could teach. As a result, I learned Japanese a lot faster than I did Spanish. Unfortunately, no matter how well you learn it, not using the language will cause you to forget a lot of what you learned. And, wow, we're pretty off-topic. My parents probably wouldn't read Poison. Too over-the-top religious. They'd want to stone Poison.
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Post by Raihor on Dec 9, 2008 14:37:17 GMT -5
I lol'd.
One thing though, most of these hard-core religious people seem to by well dying out in this country. I'm pretty sure a lot of my friends' parents will be the last generation of hard-core religious people. I think that is a really good thing, (no offence to anybody!) it's the extreme religious people who cause conflict most of the time.
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Post by Flight on Dec 10, 2008 13:15:13 GMT -5
Ah, my mum might like Poison but she reads soooo slow I'd never get the book back. Dad I don't think reads fantasy - well, he doesn't read much at all.
I don't really know any really religious people. Perhaps someone a couple of doors up from us, but she's not REALLY religious. Just... very. Agreed with the conflict comment Raihor. 'though there are quite a lot of non-Christian religious folk around.
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