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I'm from the United States. I was born in WA but now live on the other coast near DC. I'm a MOPS mom and an amateur linguist with delusions of being like Henry Higgins--sometimes. (Ironically I have never seen the movie "My Fair Lady") :P I'd love studying most any language--though tonal languages intimidate me, I may be up for the challenge with enough help. ;) English is my native language, I can speak/ read Spanish also (grammar is my Achilles' heel). I know bits and pieces of several other languages, but English and Spanish are where I am most proficient. Still I can definitely use the practice with grammar in Spanish and would love to learn other languages- especially Korean, Japanese, Hebrew and Mandarin. Likewise I can offer help with English fluency. :)
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    A weird wish

    If I could make a wish right now It would be: being blind for a week. It sounds crazy, doesn't it?. Well, I have some reasons for it. A blind person can't judge others. I wouldn't care what others might think about me. I would not take for granted the fact of life being changed in only a fraction of a second. I would be able to see through their voices the happiness and struggles that people around me might be going through. I would come to learn to read the souls intead of reading the faces.

    Some funny aspects are involved as well. I would not care about the type of cloths I would be wearing on, no matter how funny or indecent they might be. If I got short of money, people would give it to me if I asked for it. I would not have the need of being to standing up while going on a bus, and the best thing is that I'd have a cane to kick your ass if you messed with me.

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    August 26, 2014
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    Both holidays you mentioned are considered Christian holidays. In reality neither has Christian origins. Christmas was a pagan holiday called Saturnalia that worshiped the Roman god, Saturn. I've heard disagreement about the pagan goddess that Easter is named after; some say Eostre, some say Ishtar, maybe there's another Caananite deity entirely that I have never heard of instead. However, as mentioned earlier, Easter is about the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. It is a spring holiday. Historically it was supposed to coincide with the festival of Pesach (Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread) because that is when the Resurrection first took place. However, the Catholic church deliberately perpetuated an idea that there is a distinction between these holidays- and this unfortunately stems largely from an ages old, anti Semitic discrimination against the Jews. (The Jewish calendar is lunar based, so the time of Pesach changes that keep it from lining up with the 12 month solar based calendar most Americans are familiar with. It always starts on the 14th day of the month of Nisan, which is the first month of the calendar in Torah. Easter is always on a Sunday, one week after Palm Sunday and ~5 weeks after Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday.)
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    August 23, 2014
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    The only reason I have heard about it was it was a cultural reference in a movie ("Outsourced") I watched.  The movie was a cross cultural romantic comedy.  I really enjoyed it and thought it was cute.  The holiday looks fun.  I loved seeing all the colors.  A couple years back my mother in law and her sister traveled to India, but I don't think they were there around the right time to see it.  I imagine if I ever had a chance to get over to India, I would love to see that as well as try authentic Indian food.  (I don't know how authentic the cuisine I've had over here is, but there are some really good American Indian restaurants near where I live.  One of them often plays Bollywood music videos during their lunch buffet which is a real treat because the music and costumes are beautiful, the choreography is amazing, and it is a fun backdrop for the food.)  :)

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    August 23, 2014
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    Are there gerunds in Spanish? Also what is the basic criteria regarding reflexive pronoun usage? In English there is a part of speech called a gerund. It is a verb ending with -ing that functions as a noun. (I.e, The word running in this sentence: "Running is not a sport I like by itself, but I love sports that involve running so long as a ball or some other objective is involved.") Does Spanish have a comparable part of speech or linguistic feature? Also, are there conditions in which it is appropriate to add the reflexive pronoun to the end of the conjugated reflexive verb? Or is the pronoun supposed to be separate most or all of the time?
    August 23, 2014
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    Faltando la voz Pienso que gente se olvidaló el valor de un abilidad hasta no lo tenía. Este mañana la cosa que me faltó fue la voz. Y también, lo mismo es verdad para mi. Me gusta hablar en cualquier lengua que puedo porque cuando puedo hablar no me siento sola tan mucho. Pero, pienso que esta situación no debe hace mucho tiempo y no es muy dificil porque es una cosa que no es unusal y una cosa muy breva. Lo que allegrame mucho es la oportunidad de recordarse la importancia de una mentalidad de gracias. La mayoria del tiempo tengo la abilidad hablar en unas lenguas para comunicarse con otra gente. Entonces es un regalo muy precioso y hoy aprendí otra vez que es muy importante ser agradable/ tener pensamientos de gracias. Losing my voice I think people forget the value of an ability until they no longer have it. This morning something I lost was my voice. And it was the same for me. I love to talk in whatever language I can because when I speak I don't feel as alone. But, I think this situation should not last long and not be difficult because it it not an unusual thing and something that can be brief. I am happy that it gives me the opportunity to remember the importance of a mentality of gratitude. Most of the time I have the ability to speak in some languages to communicate with other people. Therefore it is a very precious gift and I learned today that it is important to be grateful/ have thoughts of thanks.
    August 23, 2014
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    Cosas que lo aprendi de alfabeto Una cosa interesante para mi es la formación del los alfabetos. Mi primera lengua es Inglés, y hay 26 letras en el alfabeto de Ingles. Español es mi segunda idoma y el alfabeto es muy similar al lo de Inglés, pero hay unas letras extras que no lo encuentra en Inglés (por ejemplo CH, LL, Ñ y RR). Mientras Inglés tiene una W y Español tiene VV o G en Español se pronuncia 'hey' como H en Inglés cuando sola pero el mismo sonido de H en Inglés muchas veces hay en palabras que use J en Español. Español es de la familia de idomas Latinas (como Francesca, Italiano, Portugues y Romano). No se de cuál familia de lenguas Inglés debe ser, pero pienso que muchas lenguas alredador el Mar de Mediterranean son similares con sus alfabetos. La palabra 'alfabeto' (en Inglés especialmente) es una combinación de los nombres de las primeras dos letras del alfabetos Griegos y Hebreos. Estos son de familias diferentes pero sus letras son muy similares a la otra idoma. (Alpha y aleph, Beta y bet, Gamma y gimel, Delta y dalet, etc.) Lo que esta común de estes lenguas me interesa mucho porque es muy curioso y da me preguntas que se occure para hacer las lenguas y alfabetos diferentes que tenemos hoy. Translation: Things I've learned about the alphabet Something that fascinates me is the formation of alphabets. My first language is English and it has 26 letters. Spanish is my second language and its alphabet is very similar to that of English, but it has extra letters English does not (for example CH, LL, Ñ, and RR). Meanwhile, English has a W (called double U) and Spanish has a VV (called double V), or G in Spanish is pronounced "hey" by itself like H in English, but the same sound in Spanish is in words that use "J" ('hota' which looks in English as 'jay'). Spanish is from the Latin language family (like French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian). I am not sure which language family English is from, but I think that many of the languages around the Mediterranean Sea are similar in their alphabets. The word "alphabet"- especially in English- is a combination of the names of the first two letters of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets. They are from different language families but the letters are very similar to each other (Alpha & aleph, Beta & bet, Gamma & gimel, Delta & dalet, etc.) What these languages have in common interests me and makes me wonder how we got the languages we have today.
    August 16, 2014
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    English Language

    I want to speak English very fast quickly, but now I'm studying all verbs in diferentsdifferent tenses, inclusive like yesterday when I was watching TV.  CNN in english for develop my I listen to CNN or for deal to understand the voices of the people in CNN speaking, also I read all information like a news from around the world. I have believed this to be good with this, and I hope to make a lot of friends for to speak with and improve my fluency in this language... I will accept any help that you can give me. Thanks...

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    I want to speak English quickly, but now I'm studying verbs in different tenses, like yesterday when I was watching TV.  I listen to CNN to understand the voices of the people speaking, also I read information like news from around the world.  I believe this to be good and I hope to make a lot of friends to speak with and improve my fluency in this language...I will accept any help that you can give me.  Thanks...

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    August 7, 2014
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    Deseas Un sueno/una desea que tengo para muchos anos es sera una maestra de ninos trabajando con ninos en una otra paiz (possiblemente una paiz hispanohablante) ensenando cosas sobre El Senor, la Biblia, como ser un Cristiano (la camina de fe) y la cultura y historia judia. Ese me interesa mucho porque es una mezcla de las cosas me gusta mas de todo: la cuida ninos, estudia de otras lenguas y culturas, y teologijico (? como se llama theology?). Cuales son unas de las deseas suyas?
    July 11, 2014
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    July 11, 2014
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    Me Tengo...

    Me tengo dos perros. Ambos eres negro y blanco. El llamo es perro pequeno es Tiki y llamo de perro grande es Storm. Me tango tambien un gato naranja. Su llamo es Ariel. Mi hermana la nombro. Me tango un guitarra tambien. Me tango un padre y una madre.

     

    Tengo dos perros.  Los dos son de color negro y blanco.  El pequeno se llama Tiki y el grande se llama Storm.  Tambien tengo un gato anaranjado, se llama Ariel.  Mi hermana le dio su nombre.  Tengo una guitarra tambien, y tengo un padre y una madre.


    Nota: Naranja puede ser una fruta o un color, pero pienso que cuando lo use para describir un color, diga "de color naranja".  (No estoy segura de esto.)  Pero cualquier palabra que use, es importante usar misma termina- masculino o feminina... un (m) gato (m) ANARANJADO (m).

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    July 11, 2014
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