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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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Goodbye Blue Monday

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It's alright to criticize others as long as you understand your own flaws. You can't make even yourself perfect, and if someone's really getting on your nerves you have the right to be bothered by it. Everyone has good and bad qualities, which is what makes them different. Some people are just embracing their bad qualities more than others, and it's alright to complain some about them, if they're really going overboard.

But see, I think the writer does admit that s/he (didn't check the name) has faults elsewhere in the article.

@TheMissingno.; I kind of get it with what you mean about competitiveness; I think a lot of people bitching about "competitive people" are people who are just insecure that they aren't good at whatever thing that is. Like, when people bitch about people who "take karaoke seriously" I can't help but read that as "I'm insecure because I can't sing." Like, whatever bitch, I'm not going to apologize for having nice pipes (by karaoke standards, anyway) to assuage your fragile ego. I hang around music majors all the time, where I'm not a "great singer" because I'm not studying to be a professional opera singer. When I'm around a group of non-musicians, let me have my chance to show it off.

But then again, I have met those people who are unable not to be competitive about any game, even if it's just a drunken round of Apples to Apples that clearly nobody else is taking very seriously. And they can be major buzzkills in any situation that they're in, when everyone else is trying to have a good time and they keep turning it around to how bent-out-of-shape they are that they only have two green cards and everyone else has at least four.
 

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Hey hey today was boring so, how was your day ?

Edit:I also got my Ace attorney game in the mail the booklet is in German I wonder if the game is the same :d.
Edit2: it is, it is well no I have a reason to use my German agian.
 
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@mariowie; I was gonna say, if you don't want it you could send it to me, since I'm trying to get my German reading skills better. :p

Anyway, I just ate three slices of pepperoni pizza, because I was hungry as fuck.
And I'm working on an article about this, which sounds both potentially really cool and potentially really ineffective.
 

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I have French orals in a month. My professor keeps bitching me to "put in extra to make it seem like you know the language" and yells at me when I forget words.

Unless you're around people who speak the language all the time, it is very hard to get good at speaking.
 

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I can't speak any other language apart from English. I took French classes at school but I only know a handful of words.

I also had pizza today! It was garlic and chicken. Nice but sickly.
 

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I have French orals in a month. My professor keeps bitching me to "put in extra to make it seem like you know the language" and yells at me when I forget words.

Unless you're around people who speak the language all the time, it is very hard to get good at speaking.

Yeah, my French reading skills are much much better than my French speaking skills.

You'll probably do fine with your orals, though. After all, it's not like your classmates are getting to jet-set to France or Quebec to practice either. :)
 

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I have French orals in a month. My professor keeps bitching me to "put in extra to make it seem like you know the language" and yells at me when I forget words.

Unless you're around people who speak the language all the time, it is very hard to get good at speaking.

Yeah, my French reading skills are much much better than my French speaking skills.

You'll probably do fine with your orals, though. After all, it's not like your classmates are getting to jet-set to France or Quebec to practice either. :)
One of my classmates is from France. He just took French for a free pass. He's such a douche during Oral practice, using phrases us English people would never know and reading fluent as fuck.
 

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One of my classmates is from France. He just took French for a free pass. He's such a douche during Oral practice, using phrases us English people would never know and reading fluent as fuck.

Well, he's an exception, I doubt he'll ruin the class for the rest of you unless your professor is an ass.

And that's so weird to me. One of my sister's friends in middle school was from France, and they had to pick Spanish or French for a quarter of a language requirement. She wanted Spanish, but because it filled up, she got stuck with French. She didn't want to take it because, well, it was brain-numbingly easy for her (this was French I, so, like, colors and numbers and shit). Her parents had to pull a ridiculous number of strings to get her moved to Spanish.

I don't understand wanting to review basic, basic shit like that in your mother tongue just for an easy A. Then again, I'm a bit of a language geek. I'm like "French and German aren't hard enough! Let's learn Russian! And then Japanese! ALL THE LANGUAGES!"
 

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I am really bad with learning languages :c. But learning French would be something or Spanish.

I also met a Dutch couple on a bus stop they where talking French to each other, yeah it is romantic but stop that :|
 

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I also met a Dutch couple on a bus stop they where talking French to each other, yeah it is romantic but stop that :|

Are you sure they weren't French :p

I get nervous around people talking in different languages. I always think they're talking about me.
 

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nope one of them was my neighbor so she was dutch for sure :d. I even worked with her mom once on a par-time job :d
 

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No one is a bigger language geek than me. I've attempted to learn about 11 or 12 languages. Not only that, I research different language families and groups. After all these years of study, there is still one unanswered question.

How the fuck does English sound to foreigners?
 

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No one is a bigger language geek than me. I've attempted to learn about 11 or 12 languages. Not only that, I research different language families and groups. After all these years of study, there is still one unanswered question.

How the fuck does English sound to foreigners?

Like gibberish :d, 12 languages wow I already suck at dutch grammar so I just gave up on that grammar for every language that is.
 

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No one is a bigger language geek than me. I've attempted to learn about 11 or 12 languages. Not only that, I research different language families and groups. After all these years of study, there is still one unanswered question.

How the fuck does English sound to foreigners?

Like gibberish :d, 12 languages wow I already suck at dutch grammar so I just gave up on that grammar for every language that is.
I want to know if it sounds similar to the other Germanic Languages like German, Dutch or the Scandinavian languages.
 

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I want to know if it sounds similar to the other Germanic Languages like German, Dutch or the Scandinavian languages.
More like Dutch then German, I haven't heard much Scandinavian languages to judge that.
German is more harder than dutch and English and Dutch and English are softer. Does it make sense probably not :d.
 

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I want to know if it sounds similar to the other Germanic Languages like German, Dutch or the Scandinavian languages.
More like Dutch then German, I haven't heard much Scandinavian languages to judge that.
German is more harder than dutch and English and Dutch and English are softer. Does it make sense probably not :d.
That clears a lot up. Thanks foreign guy!
 

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German's sentence structure is cray - or as the Germans would say, seltsam.

The weather is lovely today. And omg! It's going to be 63 on Monday.

Has spring finally arrived in New England?
 
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