WC 1M Post Challenge - You Ready?!

[Martsicky]

If you like challenges, you should try to learn polish language German isn't that hard, at all. but... after 3yrs I'm sure I wouldn't explain what's my point, to german speaker... Just know the most important words, sentences so I wouldn't have a problem on vacations in german-speaking country. also I always wanted to learn če?tina or slovenčina, quite funny languages.

 

[martinmc78]

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Quite like languages - have held onto my basic French and German from when I was at school so I can just about get by. Learnt some basic Spanish before my roadtrip - been trying to learn Japanese for a while as I really want to spend some time over there but its hard - especially the written. I feel its only polite to try and converse in someone's native tongue if you are in their country - even if I'm murdering their beautiful language at least I'm making an effort without making them try and converse in English immediately or just pointing and making hand gestures with grunts to try and get my point across

 

[martinmc78]

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198 more to break the 1000

 

[Chregu]

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German grammar is hard, I remember looking into it a bit when I worked for a large German company back in Canada. However, a lot of German words exist in English or are derived from German. You don't find the same in Finnish. The grammar in Finnish is very difficult and probably similar to German in some ways, they use compound words for example. However it's probably the first language I ever ran into where even some of the native speakers admit they don't always know the right way to say something in their own language.

I imagine every language being very (incredibly) hard to learn that's based on a different linguistic family. Slavic languages or all the Asian languages for example. Asian languages are even harder because they use entirely different letters.

...therefore it makes me happy that English is the "international" language ;-)

If you like challenges, you should try to learn polish language German isn't that hard, at all. but... after 3yrs I'm sure I wouldn't explain what's my point, to german speaker... Just know the most important words, sentences so I wouldn't have a problem on vacations in german-speaking country.

Guys, I wasn't bringing German up as a particular hard example, I was just telling you it's my native language and that advanced grammar is hard even for natives ;-)

Polish falls into the Slavic family.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Quite like languages - have held onto my basic French and German from when I was at school so I can just about get by. Learnt some basic Spanish before my roadtrip - been trying to learn Japanese for a while as I really want to spend some time over there but its hard - especially the written. I feel its only polite to try and converse in someone's native tongue if you are in their country - even if I'm murdering their beautiful language at least I'm making an effort without making them try and converse in English immediately or just pointing and making hand gestures with grunts to try and get my point across

I sometimes wish I would have held onto my French more and appreciated it. However the education system at the time botched it so bad that I got out of it as quickly as I could. So I plan to try again now I'm older. I remember some words but not enough to get by.

 

[Chregu]

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I sometimes wish I would have held onto my French more and appreciated it. However the education system at the time botched it so bad that I got out of it as quickly as I could. So I plan to try again now I'm older. I remember some words but not enough to get by.

Over the years I've spent almost 3 months in a language school in Paris, three weeks in another French city, two weeks in the French speaking part of Switzerland and I've had 9 years French at school.

If I can order a coffee and something to eat in French I'm already happy ;-)

But I feel similar to you, I'm planning to do a French language course next year, just to rescue some of my vocabulary.

 

[BIGPADDY]

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I'm going to try to learn PowerShell that a tough language.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Less than 200 posts to go! :shocked:

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Over the years I've spent almost 3 months in a language school in Paris, three weeks in another French city, two weeks in the French speaking part of Switzerland and I've had 9 years French at school.

If I can order a coffee and something to eat in French I'm already happy ;-)

But I feel similar to you, I'm planning to do a French language course next year, just to rescue some of my vocabulary.

When I went to school in Canada, French was introduced as part of the curriculum when I got to 4th grade and you only had to take it to 9th grade (5 years) you could take more classes but it was up to you. Unfotunately they taught it like they did English so some kids did ok in it, especially those who already spoke another language, others, like me found it frustrating.

They now have full immerssion schools where kids learn French all the way through education and are basically bi-lingual.

 

[Pete]

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They now have full immerssion schools where kids learn French all the way through education and are basically bi-lingual.

I have an uncle who used to be a director for HP. My cousins grew up in Grenoble, so were fully French/British English bilingual. They then moved to California. Within six months, they could only talk American (and a smattering of food-related Spanish).

 

[sinime]

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Hmmm, so I let the fantasy team auto draft and this is what I have...



Hope I have a good team... IDK any of the players

 

[Chregu]

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Hmmm, so I let the fantasy team auto draft and this is what I have...

Hope I have a good team... IDK any of the players

What's that about? An excel sheet about how the elves defeated the dwarfs? Fantasy is great!

 

[N_LaRUE]

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What's that about? An excel sheet about how the elves defeated the dwarfs? Fantasy is great!

I think it's Fantasy Football League.

 

[sinime]

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I think it's Fantasy Football League.

Yeah, fantasy football, not Final Fantasy

 

[Chregu]

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Yeah, fantasy football, not Final Fantasy

I don't know anything about Final Fantasy, but I'm sure it's less confusing than this: Fantasy football (Association) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ;-)

 

[martinmc78]

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Hmmm, so I let the fantasy team auto draft and this is what I have...

View attachment 38561

Hope I have a good team... IDK any of the players

That's not a bad draft for an auto pick - Kaepernick is a very capable QB Your receivers and running backs aren't bad either - Broncos defence was ranked 21st last season which isn't great - but they do pick up a lot of sacks which will bump your points up.

 

[Muessig]

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So once we're smashed through 1000 posts are we gonna extend the challenge to 2.5K or 5k posts?

 

[Chregu]

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So once we're smashed through 1000 posts are we gonna extend the challenge to 2.5K or 5k posts?

I am hungry, I am always getting very hungry at work in the afternoons!

 

[BIGPADDY]

So once we're smashed through 1000 posts are we gonna extend the challenge to 2.5K or 5k posts?

Let the audience decide, what do you guys what 2.5K or 5k!!!

Hurry voting closings soon!

Hidden charges may apply. :devil:

 

[Chregu]

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Let the audience decide, what do you guys what 2.5K or 5k!!!

Hurry voting closings soon!

Hidden charges may apply. :devil:

If we just increase the limit, how can we appreciate the sweet feeling of achievement and success?!

The thread should get closed at the thousands post.