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[Rosenrot_]

*shamelessly double-posting*

(and Latin, but well... not very useful in everday life )

I saw this today: Report: Students Who Take Latin Have Better Chance Of Summoning Demon Later In Life
It made me reconsider my stance on Latin, and now I feel sad that I didn't take it more seriously when I was young. Think about how things would have been different for a lot of students if Latin teachers mentioned this… This is such a shame.

 

[Boyish]

@sunnyna
Don't be so hard on yourself girl, your english is good
To answer your question, yes I'm fluent in english. How do I know that you may ask? I actually speak and write better english than I do french (It's fucked up, but it's the truth lol). The state failed real bad to teach me (and so many other people around me) french properly, but I successfully taught myself english in my adulthood lmao

That's the quality of education in french ghettos. "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" my ass. So many of our schools are jokes, plain and simple.

@Ignis Aurae See, you are now contemplating learning spanish too haha. (Oh and btw, italian can be very useful, I'd love to be fluent in this beautiful language... so I could visit Italy and get me some Hot italian man ).

 

[Rosenrot_]

@Ignis Aurae : Good point. I guess it really depends on your lifestyle! (And I'm really not judging anyone who doesn't summon demons on a daily basis. Although I do wonder how you even find joy in your life. )

 

[Irene Adler]

Hi
I come here because I think it's a good way to practise my english. Sorry if I disturb you because I make mistakes in english but I'm able to have discussion and I would become fluent in this nice language because I plan to move to England in a while .
And I nearly forgot HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 

[Dancingouine]

@Casspinosaure we want details
@mt I listen to most of my podcasts in English, I can suggest you some if you want depends on what you're interested in though ahah because I have quite a lot !

 

[Dancingouine]

@mt ok I'll try soooo I mainly listen to podcast on culture, or self development, or stuff like that. At the moment I quite like Earn your happy, Good Life project and Daily Boost for Kinda "better life" stuff, then I have the Guardian Today in Focus for daily news and Guardian UK Politics, No such thing as fish which is quite funny, Freakonomics Radio and Stuff they don't want you to know for interesting stuff about everything, and finally Song Exploder which I love, it's artists going through the process of creating one of their song. Oh and also Ted Talks obviously, podcast version that's all for now I think ! Also I use the Castbox app. Let me know if any questions

 

[Dancingouine]

@Casspinosaure well that looks like a nice evening ahah lucky you !

Sorry for dp

 

[Ada or ardor]

@mt : I once started the podcast The Habitat. It's about people living in Hawaii as if they were living on Mars. A scientific experiment .

Spoiler: Better explanation

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[Dancingouine]

@mt ahah great ! Yeah for the time it really depends, self development are usually about an hour, sometimes they do smaller one like tips which are between 10-20 min. Ted talks are about 15-20 min I would say but also depends. Everything depends Castbox is the app on which I listen to them

 

[Ada or ardor]

@mt : Right ? I should try to listen it again !

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Something disturbs me since a long time in English. It's the way they say "Ma'am". I always wondered where the contraction comes from and its meaning. I've always seen it widely used with the contraction (never heard "Madam" actually). At the same time it sounds quite disrespectful (in my mind) to say something supposed to be formal with a contraction.
Can someone explain that to me ?

(Reminds me of that afternoon I spend trying to understand the point with the word cunt)

 

[Irene Adler]

@Ignis Aurae I have the first and the second HP in english. It's kind simple to read but their are some special words of HP like muggles etc.... But I gave up in the middle of the first book because It takes me so much time to read in English. But I want try again now I read your message

 

[Irene Adler]

@mt. I'm great! I was in vacation last week so it's nice to go back to a productive routine and more social life . And you how is your day?

@LolaN22 Thanks for your podcast tips . I look forward to listen it.

Bdw yesterday evening I trying to watch the serie "Sherkock" in english‚ I thought it would be easy because I had already seen it in french but no . So I realized that I'm more exposed at the american accent that at the english accent so it's harder for me to understand english. Do you have tips for help me to understand english accent?