I speak Indonesian(0f course),few words in Arabic and English.My English still a bit messy,even after all the hard work i put to pass CAE exam in Bournemouth.I've been to Malaysia,England,Wales,Singapore,and Hong Kong.I've got family in England so i go to England quite frequent.In fact i'll be there for this summer holiday.It's ashamed i won't be able to catch some episodes of csi ny 4.Axn is only playing season 2 and 3 repeatedly in Indonesia..
Whoa Jacuqie. Not only do you know where Taiwan is, but you have actually been here! That was...surprising. :lol: And you're right, the weather in the south is very different from it is in Taipei (me = born in the south and now living in Taipei ) Although I probably shouldn't complain too much about the heat in summer considering Gaelen is from a Malaysia where the heat is even worse and is now living in Africa. LOL. Everyone around here sounds language-talented. It's really amazing that a lot of you speak so many languages. I speak Mandarin, Taiwanese, English, German and a bit of Japanese. I was German-majored in college, but I have never been too any German-spoken countries.
Actually, contrary to popular belief (of all things burn under the African sun), the weather here is actually quite pleasant. We get 4 seasons, (granted, spring is like - one day ) and the temperatures have a good range. It's only flaming if you stand under direct sunlight, but if you're in the shade, it's not bad at all. The air is dry, so you don't sweat (unlike Malaysia - where sweating like a pig is the understatement of the year) and...yeah. It's hard to explain because everyone thinks Africa means OMG! no water! Everyone lives in mud hutts!! :lol: If you look at South Africa, it's actually pretty well developed, and Cape Town's Canal Walk is, if I'm not mistaken, the largest shopping mall in the southern hemisphere (it is massive).
Hehe I know about South Africa and a few southwest African countries, but I have to admit that I didn't have a good idea about where in Africa Namibia was (I do now. *slaps self*). Hmmmm I'm quite interested in moving to somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. I'm curious about what Christmas and New Year are like in summer. :lol:
^I've lived in the Southern Hemisphere all my life (aside from Germany that is). :lol: I'm interested in moving to the Northern Hemisphere, where I can actually experience a white Christmas for once - otherwise it's during the summer and I'm sitting here imagining snow as everyone else complains about it :lol: And when I'm complaining about the cold, everyone's in their shorts cause it's summer! (It's actually pretty annoying). The only great part is when everyone else is complaining about the heat, I'm nice and cool.
*Never answered my own question* Erm I can speak English of course *no comment* but I can speak quit good french when I put my mind to it! Well I hope I can seeing as I have my french oral exam next friday :lol: Oh...I can speak the random Japaneese word due to the fact that I do martial arts but I dont think I could get something to eat with the word 'punch' :guffaw: Erm countries.....Erm England (obviously), Wales,France, Portugal, Create, America (Florida) and Lanzarote ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Argentina Ghawazee Austrailia tiara4Carmine Austria Clairelangley Belgium _Hush_ Brazil owlki Bulgaria Phobia Canada dl_shipper34 flacksgirl7 WhosLaughingNow catey1234 Elwood21 CSI_in_training DuCaineluver93 buddrick Nick_Wolfe_Danny Flackie_boo CSINUMIA000 Snowbird luvingmyHoratio Lampdor fxcanadian Crank Shevonne JulieAnn Jacquie (Ontario) DragonflyDreamer China Jimhaung Cyprus athens France celtess Joaninah Finland DaWacko Germany LivingEnd StellaFan CSI_NY_Addict Lonia Britta BlueDemon Jay1987 Teardrop nel2h Brinchen MiaCharlize Greece Dims Hungary Cathwarfan Cimponelli Indonesia gue_nih kitsun3gari Ireland Ceindreadh Stardust1989 origin-nknown (But lives in Wales, UK ) Italy Orison Cecily Vertigirl Kuwait miami85 (soon moving to Barcelona) Lithuania ametista Malaysia Kimmychu DAnNSfreak sHiNNizLe Gaelen (Currently in Namibia, AKA Messermonroe) tinieyhasbi togo2hot Netherlands dutch_treat Marns Jodi CSISenna Jools Carmine_lover 4blueeyez Roosey New Zealand kiwifan magicmunchies Hannah melbel Kiwi_girl NZGirly Norway CSI_Andersen Kinehelene CSI_DannyFan Portugal CSI_Dani Romania Lorelai miss_blue AngelTaylor Sebia milena Singapore Lessien_Tinuviel spikegal Slovakia Carolina South Africa Althea Carmeena Spain Poison girl (PG) lunadeagosto Hormiga Rtelgeuse vas NYPD Sweden NinaM SvartaBaskern Distraction Switzerland CSIAnnStokes Taiwan EricaSJ The Philippines chaostheory08 mulder8scully5 peewee_sal ranma Cara1090 Mandy9578 kayfeb (based in Brunei) UK nattybatty55 Kat1974 silencer Twinkletoes jendai Fruitbat (FB) Bella363 gypsy Joolz Dawni bumble_bee89 faith666 Macslady Elsie LeanneUK Msgirl Newyorklover Gaby grssom89 Danistheman HC_4_my_birthday Thegluups AliGtr CalleighD Tequesta (Orkney Isles) Shady Aiden_Burn Stella_Taylor Aconnell Seren y Gogledd Alexis_taylor hairy0haggis HoratioFan4ever Sammie xxmaybe (moving to Canada soon) ryansnuttytart Aphina Ali57 Adorable_Crazy SomethinSomethin Xkawx Madsion Louise rachaelm MichelleK CSItaylorgirl Sherry shazza 018 Poppet USA Ruth (Chile) CSI Kat (Michigan) Wolfesgamergirl (Wisconsin) Venezuela CalleighWolfe Total= 157 @Liffy...Italy is fixed @Elsie, I was wondering, am I spamming by posting this list near the top of each page?
Hmm. Do you need the list? If people are saying which country they are from when they first post in the thread and also posting in the poll then maybe the list is kind of redundant. I have to admit that I don't read the list, but if other people find it useful then of course it's fine. But no more than one per page, and remember to include your own 3 lines of discussion as well as the list when you post it.
I'd never post it twice one page but I might even just post it every other page I took a while to add all the names so I thik it'll be shame to delete it. And of course i'll always post at least three lines of discussion Thanks
And it took you how long to do that? :lol: Ooh! Japanese! I love Japanese (and all things anime )!! It's like a life-long dream of mine to one day learn to speak Japanese (and of you Japanese speakers around here?) :lol: Oooh...I'd love to go to Japan too one day...and die from eating too much sushi!! Eigo ga deki masu ka?
Haha Liffy, I love Hainanese Chicken Rice! It's comfort food for me actually. I put a lot of chilies in my soy sauce. :lol: As for the languages I speak...Well, where I live, everybody is at least bilingual. English is my first language. Tagalog is the local dialect I speak. I've taken Spanish lessons since I was a child. I can understand it and speak it but I still tend to butcher it. Italian I'm a bit familiar with since it's closely related to Spanish.
I'm from south-west Germany. Apart from German I speak English (not exactly fluently but well enough). My only problem with English is my horrible mix of accents: In school I was taught British English, so I spoke British English with a (slight?) German accent. Then I started watching movies (and TV series ) in the original version which usually is American English. So now it's a foundation of British English mingled with colloquialisms from US films and series and presumably adorned by a German accent (I don't know any English native speakers, so I can't confirm...) Apart from that I speak French (I live about 15 km away from the French border, but Alsatians tend to speak German to tourists who try to speak French, so I don't get much practice...). At school, I had Latin as first foreign language. I once began learning Russian and Spanish but didn't pursue them further. At university, I decided I needed a distraction, so I began learning Chinese. I did it for one year, got as far as ~250 signs and about 4 weeks after the course ended, I had forgotten about 80% of them...
^Oh that's the one hard thing about chinese, you have to learn so many different things for the language to work; the strokes of your characters, the word itself, the tone of the word etc...etc.. Tones suck, you mispronounce one and the word becomes completely different :lol: MMmmmm....chicken rice....
That's not only true about Chinese but English as well. Mispronounce something in English and you may just mean something entirely different. Haha, that one though is pretty funny. :lol: