EarthySun

Pretty much. The Spanish will help so much with the Italian, haha. I was able to understand about a quarter or more of what they were talking about in The Godfather (during the Italian parts) just from knowing Spanish.

Lol, that's fun. :P Kids in my class think that too, but even though I am really smart, I'm very lazy when it comes to doing reading/homework/labs/etc. I usually keep putting it off until the last minute or forget about it until the last minute. Confession/Secret/Regret: I think that I have an above-average... "size"... for my age. Though I'm not quite sure.

I consider myself to be pretty damn good at Spanish, although not quite fluent. :x Apparently my mother and grandmother (the German grandmother, my mom's mother) are natural language-learners. My mom used to speak fluent German and English, but she hasn't used the German for around 30 years. Apparently it got very stale. :P My German grandmother speaks German, French, English and Russian. We love learning languages and usually pick it up easily, but I struggle with the German cases (where my mom and grandma did not). I'll be (hopefully) studying abroad in Germany for my senior year of high school, so I've really got to learn this language quickly. Something annoying that happened to me around a month ago: 14 or 15 German kids visited our school and town for two weeks. During this time, they just hung out, toured the building, and talked to kids/classes about their lives in Germany and what it was like. However, they'd often talk to each other in rapid-fire German and assume that nobody understood them. They were in my German Level 1 class, and didn't know that it was a German class, so they continued as normal. But at the end, my German teacher mentioned it to them, and they got all worried and nervous-looking.... and they should have looked nervous, too. My teacher and I were the only ones who understood even a bit of what they said about us, but it wasn't very nice. They kept mentioning that we were "stupid Americans" and called us annoying. They talked about people behind their backs, calling one teacher a "fat, loud guy who probably never had [kitty]". It was pretty amusing. It's really a shame that my German teacher didn't do anything about it. :P And something unrelated to that: I've been thinking of checking out some Asian languages, or maybe even Russian, after I finish with Spanish and German. I wouldn't try anything like Arabic (I could never read it, for one -- too complicated of a writing system imho), but a language with a non-Latin alphabet would certainly be an interesting challenge. Japanese would probably be easier than Chinese, because of its alphabet system... not one unique character for every word, and no tonal linguistics or worrying about dialect. Russian, well... I don't really know anything about Russian yet. :P Some languages that I would probably never learn would be French and Arabic. French because it all sounds so slippery or grunty (their numbers, for example), and also the fact that I just dislike France and French Canada. Arabic as well, because it's so complicated in its writing system(s). I've heard that you'd have to be able to discern a dot to an absurdly small distance just to tell if the sign meant one thing or another. Edit: I still haven't learned any language (besides English) to full fluency, but I'm getting there. Something that really bothers me is my speaking. In Spanish, I can understand the vast majority of what is said about most things (unless you were talking about some odd subject like astronomy or something). However, when I attempt to speak, my words come out somewhat slowly (so long as I want to remain entirely correct in my Spanish and remain fully clear in its meaning), and I still have yet to catch every single word when I listen to somebody who is speaking Spanish. My brain still has to process what they're saying, so I'm usually half a second behind the speaker.

That quote means "With each language you can speak, you become more of a man." Correct me if I'm wrong.^^ I think that in my old town, they should have taught Portuguese instead of Spanish. Around one third of the school was Brazillian (mostly illegal immigrants for parents), and so it annoyed me when I'd pass by lots of them in the halls and they'd be talking in Portuguese. We had street signs in Portuguese, and even kids who couldn't speak English. Also, by just practicing German online for a month or so, I learned so much more than I have (to date) in school. I'm taking German Level 1, but it really isn't doing me much good. During the summer, I will be taking a course in German at a community college. Hopefully, that'll do me some good. My grandmother is German through and through, and English is her third language. I've been asking her for some help with the language, but her e-mails in which she attempts to explain the cases (Dative, Genative, etc) aren't very helpful to my English mind. Also, something that annoys me about German is that everything has to directly correlate with its "gender". A girl, in my mind, is not an "it", but a "she". A pencil is not a "him", but an "it". However, I have to refer to everything as if it were male, female, or neutral... How annoying. :P

Basically, America's dropped the ball on teaching our public a second (or even third) language through the public school system. In foreign countries, such as Germany, students are first taught a foreign language as young as ten, and continue learning that foreign language until fluent... and then they start a third language. In America, we usually start learning our first foreign language at age 12-14, and even then we're nowhere near fluent by the end of our foreign language education. In college, we're only required to take one year of a foreign language, and that is only as much as two years of a high school foreign language course (about enough to adequately order at a restaurant, but not converse with someone meaningfully, fully, or well). This irks me very much, especially because I love learning foreign languages. Right now, I'm pursuing both German and Spanish. People think that I know the entire dictionary of words, but far from it... I just know much more than them (which is still a meager amount >.<). When I see my classmates attempt Spanish or German, they often mispronounce words, misspell words, and/or misuse grammar/words. My classmates also rarely recite their own linguistic verses, but rather take to using learned phrases from the textbook or just reading out of the textbook itself. Also, a note: this occurs in classes for the college-bound and would-be-professionals.] However, you could argue that it isn't important for Americans to learn a foreign language. I don't think that it's particularly important, but that it's still a very useful ability to have, gives your brain a lot of exercise, and helps you to better understand language/syntax/grammar (especially in your native language). I think that the path to fluency in a foreign language is one that everyone should travel upon. Edit: I get this topic in my head every time I see a TIFer who says that they're from another country. I think that it's annoying in how there are these teenagers from Sweden, Germany, France, et cetera, who can converse in English so very well, and yet I can't (nor do I know anyone who can) converse in a non-native language so fluidly and well. I certainly don't sound like a native Spanish-speaker when I talk in Spanish online, nor in German.

Oh, hey, I forgot about something. I usually hate showing my feet, be it at a swimming pool or at the beach... I almost always get in the water as fast as possible.^^; There's something wrong with the nails on both of my big toes... they're, like, dead and broken in 3 places, and still grow. I really need to see a doctor about it. O_o Oh, and there are also layers of nail growing over those dead parts. And the nails are yellow-ish. Edit: Don't come to this thread unless you wanna hear stuff that'll disturb you forever.

I think that the people who drive the suicides into killing themselves are more to blame, even if the suicide's reaction is a bit over-the-top. You have to remember, this girl was in a completely new school, town, and even country. She probably felt like an outcast as soon as she got there, not when the "mean girls" started bullying her. I'm not saying that it was entirely the "mean girls'" fault or that the girl's suicide was justified, just that the suicide wasn't equally, mostly, or completely the bullied girl's fault. I think that the "mean girls" deserve a hell of a lot more than they got. They tried to hurt somebody badly over some childish nothingness of a thing, and even if they didn't know that the consequences would be so severe, you reap what you sow (eventually they'll be gotten back, I hope). What amazes me is that even after they prodded a girl into suicide, they continued to talk bad about her and even bully others. What I'm surprised about is that everybody knows and openly acknowledges it and yet continues to do nothing about it.

You should be ashamed. What would Lenticular and his Simba avatar think? :o Also, why does everyone post confessions of not be attracted/as attracted to people outside of their race? I don't find it odd. As a matter of fact, I'm not at all attracted to black girls; I only like whites, latinas and asians. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3882sGkrNA ARE YOU SUUUUUUUURE? D: Alright, I'll admit that I paused it at 1:30. Depends on how dark their skin is, though. People can be black and still have light-brown skin. Still, though. Damn you, Wongtong. D: Edit: At least one of those was white or something... Definitely. XD

The climate data that 'proved' Global Warming was faked. Luckily, I never believed in it in the first place. :\

I'm gonna see if I can convince anyone that I'm a Mormon. Here's what I'm thinking: do the whole a/s/l thing, say that I'm from Utah. They'll ask if I'm Mormon or I'll mention it somewhere, say that I sort of think it's crazy and the stranger will agree. They'll start sort of rooting me on for being the black sheep in a field of white sheep, I'll say I have to go. And they'll have no idea that they've just been fooled. Edit: Also, I'm doing the "Bridge O' Death" thing, but the questions are "Age", "Sex" and "Location" (A/S/L) instead of the norm.

You should be ashamed. What would Lenticular and his Simba avatar think? :o Also, why does everyone post confessions of not be attracted/as attracted to people outside of their race? I don't find it odd. As a matter of fact, I'm not at all attracted to black girls; I only like whites, latinas and asians.

I think that I could take a 140-pound (63.5 kg) Great Dane, at the very least. I could probably also take on a crocodile that's my weight, and probably a cow.

People always make fun of my last name. People that become my friends will laugh at it at first and then get used to it and not care, but some people really piss me off by mentioning it every time and calling me by my last name rather than my first name. :| I guess 'Cox' is a pretty bad last name to have.

I've never hung out with anybody or been on a date, ever. :| Pretty sure that trumps most of you guys out there. ^_^ Also, I've never kissed a girl and I'll be 16 in four months.

I do that as well. My whole bank is meticulously organized, and I can't stand if my inventory is out of line. :) Some call it OCD, but I call it neatness.

Yep, they're a nice player that frequents RSOF. :^_^:

Look at any one of the Power Rangers theme songs from Time Force and before.

"You're Pitiful" - Weird Al

Imo, The Exorcist was absolutely awesome. Are you sure you watched the right one?

I pray that English is not your first language. Take with a picture and then upload it onto a site like tinypic. Fixed.

Also, it could be very, very easily mistaken for a mod crown by noobs. Imagine all the times someone could be hurt.

Not to mention the fairly new addition of Rocktail fish, which raise your maximum health by ten for a short period of time.

Agreed. 'Gay' or 'homo' is used as a slang term that means 'someone or something that is bad'. For instance, in real life, if I were to say 'those shoes look really gay', I'd actually be saying 'those shoes look ugly and displeasing to my eye'. If JaGEx uncensored 'gay', 'lesbian' or 'homo' they would be letting the waters of offenses over-run the cup.

Grats again, N00B. :^_^:

I'm a demon; screw being a human. First off, take control of Cry and Olly's super-baby and dominate the earth.