I'm really interested in linguistics. I'm not fluent in any language but my native English, but I'm currently enrolled in French III and Spanish II. I hope to become either a teacher or a linguist someday (and hopefully learn more than French and Spanish!)
Sun 28 Dec, 2003 04:09 pm - [quote="McTag"]O Pete from the kitchen, our languages czar
With such an approach I am sure you'll go far
A triple-tongued post, well bedad, to be sure
It's really just like... (view)
Thu 11 Dec, 2003 07:05 pm - My grandma used to use (fake) doves to top the tree. They'd be facing each other and holding a red ribbon between them -- as if they were decorating the tree themselves! :o (view)
Mon 8 Dec, 2003 09:53 pm - [quote]"De" is for both masculine and feminine nouns, "het" for neutral nouns. And there are hardly any easy ways, like what you have in French with the last "e" for... (view)
Mon 8 Dec, 2003 07:08 pm - I have another somewhat unrelated story.
When I was 9 years old, my Girl Scout troop had a Christmas party. We were each to buy a little gift that cost $5.00 and we'd draw numbers and trade... (view)
Mon 8 Dec, 2003 05:41 pm - Wow. This is a great topic!
Well, mine probably pales in comparison to all of yours. For my sixth birthday, my grandma gave me this hideous hat. It was like a baseball cap, except the top was... (view)
Mon 8 Dec, 2003 05:17 pm - [quote="D1Doris"]
And HoneyBises, I think it's a lot harder for english people to learn dutch than it is for dutch people to learn english.
I'm not sure if you can say this... (view)