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Teresa s.
July 10, 2007
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Latest: September 25, 2007
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Re:My opinion regarding charges...
I completely agree with you, but a lot of the people on this site found a way around that you put all your information on the borad and presto just like that you can make friends AND find someone to email with,
by the way my name is Yolie
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Yolanda C.
June 26, 2007
# Msgs: 3
Latest: July 31, 2007
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Re:Re:A friend of dwyns
te ayudare con su ingles mientras nos conocemos. de acuerdo?
o, y esto va a RODRIGUEZ. Soy bilengual y estoy aburrida.
no tengo gold membership. Usted va a tener que contactarme.
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Language pair: Spanish; English
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Judy B.
June 12, 2007
# Msgs: 3
Latest: June 12, 2007
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My opinion regarding charges...
sorry guys, but you do not understand anything! What for to ask $6 a month just to be able to contact others? Do you want to earn on this site? Make it maximum $6 a year and you'll get lots of 'gold members'. As for now it has little sense...
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Language pair: English;
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Matt
June 4, 2007
# Msgs: 3
Latest: July 31, 2007
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I know it would be hard
When you asked am I trying to make it more more difficult, I can garantee you it isn't. It only seems harder because it's different and you're not used to it. About Half of the words in the English language are unpredictable with spelling. All I'm doing is using the rules English has and applying it to the good majority of words rather than having all that unpredictable crap. If you were to just actually give more attention to how I spellt, you would see it is much easier than the way we spell now.
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Language pair: English; German
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Stephen B.
March 16, 2007
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I know it would be hard.
I have recently changed the way I believe English should be spellt. I think it will be easier to adopt to, and yet still simple. Before I thought putting an "H" directly after a "U" would be good for the sound as in the word "puff". I've looked more closely at how it works and most of the time the letter U makes that sound when 2 of the same letters come after it. Now of course we can not do this will all words so it will just be one of those things that you would just have to learn.
On a last note I have also decided to adopt 1 letter from french (Ç) and slightly the same with one of the spanish letters, however molding it to my own (Ñ except rather than N it would be a U).
Ie hav reicently chainjd dhe way Ie beleve Einglish shud bei spellt. Ie theink it will be easier tu adopt, but still çimpole. Before Ie thot puting an "H" directly after a "U" wud bei good for dhe çound as in "puff".I've lookd more clossly at how it werks and most uv dhe time dhe letter "U" maiks dhat çound wen 2 uv dhe Çame letters cumm after it. Now uv corsse wei can not du dhiss with all werds ço it will just bei wunn uv dhose theings dhat yew wud just haf tu lern.
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Language pair: English; German
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Stephen B.
March 13, 2007
# Msgs: 1
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Re:So disappointed!
Claudio -
I think there is a practical problem for people who want to use this forum for learning the basics of a foreign language. You really need to have some rudimentary skills before you can exchange meaningful communication at all. Yes, you could volley questions back and forth, like "How do you say 'thank you'?" and you might find someone to volunteer, but it won't be very gratifying for the other person. I am also a newcomer to this forum, and I don't know how it will go, but I am realistic about my expectations. I already speak Japanese, so I am prepared for some good practice communications in Japanese, but I am just learning the Arabic alphabet, and I don't think I will be able to get much language help with that on here. Think about it. Have you ever heard of the WWOOF program? It stands for Willing Workers on Organic Farms ... and it seems to be popular with the backpacker/hippie people. The nice thing about it is that you can go to Japan and go to the countryside, and you will help some Japanese farmers in exchange for room and board... and in the meantime, you will have an immersion language experience. It is hard work and you don't get paid any money, but if you can go along with this, it is a great experience. Good luck.
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Language pair: Japanese;
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Jon
March 13, 2007
# Msgs: 2
Latest: March 13, 2007
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Re:So disappointed!
Dear Claudio
Please don't be dissapointed.
I am a Japanese who became a member here just a few weeks ago.
Now I am ready to respond to any of your question concerning Japanese language or culture.
I will be waitng for your contact with me soon.
Kozo in Yokohama
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Language pair: Japanese;
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kozo
March 7, 2007
# Msgs: 2
Latest: March 13, 2007
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The wind of changes
The previous topic that deals with the English spelling has indicated a critical mismatch of opinions, but it induced me to raise another problem in the field of the Russian one. The Russian alphabet has a pair of letters [sh] and [sh'] (#26 and #27). The apostrophe here is to indicate a palatisation of a consonant, that means pronouncing with a tongue risen up. In Russian almost each consonant has a palatised mode producing a new phoneme, but only the above mentioned require two different letters to spell, while all the other reveal that feature by means of a succeding vowel. It makes a lot of difficulties in the spelling rules, producing a lot of sorrow for school pupils and foreign students. It seems a high time to abandon using this odd couple of letters.
What will the World-wide community say?
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Language pair: Russian; English
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Leonid P.
February 24, 2007
# Msgs: 1
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I know it would be hard
You seem to speak of the Russians a lot. But I don't think someone should actually do that because for one Russian is a slavic language and English is a Germanic language which obviously means they run on different rules. But also Russian uses an entirely different alphabet. I say you shouldn't put too much thought these kinds of things.
English is already extremely difficult compared to most other languages when it comes to spelling. I want to keep the basic set of rules that English has and just because some of those rules are unlike any other language doesn't mean we should change them. I just want to make the learning process easier, but still keeping those esential rules. So if you don't like it, I would have to say "oh well" because even though I'm trying to make it easier for foreigners doesn't mean I should make it extrodinarily harder for the native speakers.
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Language pair: English; German
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Stephen B.
February 23, 2007
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