Possibly. They paired us up with kids but mine was shy and wouldn't talk so instead I taught him to punch the other male US students in the butt on command
2005-09-01 24429, 2005
DJKC
probably not the cultural exchange that was intended, but it worked
2005-09-01 24429, 2005
_fatalis
I want to go there to learn the language too
2005-09-01 24454, 2005
_mo
I just want to *go* there
2005-09-01 24407, 2005
_fatalis
_mo, that's because you're a wapanese
2005-09-01 24454, 2005
_mo
and you just want to go there because.. you're not?
2005-09-01 24402, 2005
_fatalis
because I want to learn the language
2005-09-01 24416, 2005
_fatalis
well, just going there would be fun too, of course
2005-09-01 24417, 2005
_mo
you don't have to *go* some whereto learn a language
2005-09-01 24420, 2005
_mo
it helps of course
2005-09-01 24428, 2005
_mo
exactly
2005-09-01 24431, 2005
_fatalis
actually, you have
2005-09-01 24447, 2005
_fatalis
for instance, I can type English quite well, but pronouncation gives me problems
2005-09-01 24404, 2005
_mo
I'm interested in, the language, the food, the coulture, the history, the television, the people, the
2005-09-01 24415, 2005
_mo
I've never been to england or USA
2005-09-01 24425, 2005
_fatalis
I've been to London
2005-09-01 24425, 2005
_mo
my spoken english is rather good
2005-09-01 24451, 2005
_fatalis
_mo, how come then?
2005-09-01 24456, 2005
_mo
how come what?
2005-09-01 24454, 2005
_fatalis
how come your spoken English is good
2005-09-01 24457, 2005
_fatalis
where are you form anyways
2005-09-01 24406, 2005
_mo
Norway
2005-09-01 24422, 2005
_fatalis
scandinavian people usually know English well
2005-09-01 24424, 2005
_fatalis
for some reason
2005-09-01 24435, 2005
_mo
not really. most other norwegians I know are suck at it
2005-09-01 24446, 2005
_mo
and I mean *SUCK*
2005-09-01 24447, 2005
duncf has quit
2005-09-01 24422, 2005
_fatalis
you can't even compare it to, say, Germany
2005-09-01 24427, 2005
_fatalis
or Italy even
2005-09-01 24428, 2005
_mo
I wouldn't know
2005-09-01 24430, 2005
_fatalis
not to mention France
2005-09-01 24433, 2005
_mo
never been there
2005-09-01 24441, 2005
_fatalis
you don't have to go there to know it
2005-09-01 24447, 2005
_mo
but generally the amount of suckage I've heard is pretty bad
2005-09-01 24452, 2005
_fatalis
English isn't even a mandatory subject in France's schools
2005-09-01 24400, 2005
_mo
maybe not
2005-09-01 24447, 2005
_fatalis
people in Norway, Sweden etc. know it relatively much better
2005-09-01 24404, 2005
_fatalis
perhaps because they aren't born in former empires
2005-09-01 24409, 2005
_mo
well being in norway talking to other norwegians in english is a pain
2005-09-01 24437, 2005
_mo
and I don't think history has anything to do with it. its more a person to person thing
2005-09-01 24458, 2005
_fatalis
I think it has
2005-09-01 24402, 2005
_fatalis
take France as an example
2005-09-01 24412, 2005
_fatalis
they're associating English with the American culture
2005-09-01 24417, 2005
_fatalis
they won't learn it for that reason
2005-09-01 24420, 2005
_mo
o_O why would they?
2005-09-01 24425, 2005
_mo
that's weird
2005-09-01 24440, 2005
_mo
I don't accosiated england with anythign but.. uh.. england moslty
2005-09-01 24444, 2005
_fatalis
because they (like the rest of the world) don't approve of the expansion of it
2005-09-01 24445, 2005
_fatalis
lol
2005-09-01 24400, 2005
_fatalis
france want to be the epicentre of global culture
2005-09-01 24407, 2005
_fatalis
whic they once were
2005-09-01 24409, 2005
_mo
all countires want that
2005-09-01 24411, 2005
_mo
norway to
2005-09-01 24424, 2005
_fatalis
and England is their historical enemy
2005-09-01 24429, 2005
Shepard
i think if you look at french history they would have more reasons to be against GB than US
2005-09-01 24430, 2005
PRAEst76
I dunno, i thought it had a lot to do with centuries of hospility between England and France
2005-09-01 24435, 2005
PRAEst76
hostility
2005-09-01 24448, 2005
_fatalis
PRAEst76, that too
2005-09-01 24448, 2005
_mo
well. sweeden is the historical enemy of norway, and was even owned by them but noly 100 years ago
2005-09-01 24408, 2005
_fatalis
_mo, you just don't understand the mentality of French people
2005-09-01 24430, 2005
_mo
no I don't. you don't understand the mentality of norwegian people, because neither of us is the other
2005-09-01 24431, 2005
_mo
:)
2005-09-01 24440, 2005
PRAEst76
i understand the mentality of Parisien taxi drivers; they want me dead.
2005-09-01 24445, 2005
_mo
lol
2005-09-01 24449, 2005
Shepard
if you take the hostility to england then perhaps scots speak the worst english :>
2005-09-01 24456, 2005
_fatalis
_mo, you don't have to be one of them to understand the mentality
2005-09-01 24458, 2005
_mo
'deed
2005-09-01 24417, 2005
_fatalis
I know the russian mentality rather well because like 40% of the population in the city I live in are Russians
2005-09-01 24421, 2005
_mo
but I'd argue that I understand norwegian mentality better than you?
2005-09-01 24421, 2005
_fatalis
and it's the capital
2005-09-01 24439, 2005
_fatalis
I've known Russian since I was very little without even learning it in kindergarten or whatever
2005-09-01 24446, 2005
_fatalis
I think it speaks for itself
2005-09-01 24456, 2005
_mo
and I, have spoken english fro mi was 3
2005-09-01 24418, 2005
_fatalis
how come?
2005-09-01 24425, 2005
_mo
because
2005-09-01 24436, 2005
_fatalis
well anyways, it's a matter of being informed
2005-09-01 24427, 2005
_fatalis
Americans who say "caucasian" to refer to white people annoy me
2005-09-01 24433, 2005
_fatalis
it doesn't make any sense
2005-09-01 24446, 2005
_fatalis
what has Caucasus to do with my skin color?
2005-09-01 24425, 2005
_fatalis
ah, the arc of noas lol
2005-09-01 24416, 2005
_fatalis
that's so stupid
2005-09-01 24430, 2005
_fatalis
if there was such a thing, people of all races would have to be on it
2005-09-01 24435, 2005
_fatalis
not just white people
2005-09-01 24459, 2005
_fatalis
unless you assume that the other races appeared after that big flood thing
Hi there! I have a problem with MB Tagger and after half an hour of searching through the FAQs I found nothing about it: I added Romanian diacritics to a few songs that lacked them; they look OK on the MB web page, but they're garbled both in MBTagger and in the files it writes. Is there anything I can do?
