The Syndicate

Golden wrote:I bet on Heiots.

I hope your trip's going well.

I started memorizing the Hebrew alphabet this week. (See chicken scratch below.) I've never realized how a language is easier to learn when you have an alphabet to assist you. Once you've got the alphabet in your head, you can pronounce almost any word right. Probably explains why I took to English faster than Mandarin!

ETA: I'm not sure I consider myself an anime fan. The only ones I've watched are the Studio Ghibli productions, Cardcaptor Sakura and Pokemon growing up, and random series like Fruit Basket and Ouran High School Host Club (which I don't think guys would watch).

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I would like to learn Japanese, but that is a long-term endeavor for me at the moment.

We should race and see who picks up a new language faster. Hebrew for me, and Japanese for you.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:I tried to learn spanish in high school but i fucking despised my teacher and dropped it.

I've been avoiding learning moonspeak(japanese) because I dont want to be the weeaboo who only learned the language because he watches a lot of anime. Which is technically a valid reason to learn the language. Sometimes stuff hasnt been translated but you want to watch it anyway.

Actually kinda surprised I can only speak one language. After hearing so many words and different combinations of how things are said, I pick up pronounciation of other languages extremely fast. Mainly Spanish, Japanese**, and French. I just cant speak any of them. And I hear Rosetta Stone is garbage so I aint doing that.

**I can only do this one if it's in romaji. English letters with japanese soundings. Whoever came up with that one is a genius

Do you watch anime in Japanese or English? I try to avoid dubs because....just because the Japanese original voice-overs are better. If you're really interested, I don't see why you shouldn't pick up Japanese. I first got interested in other languages besides my basic ones due to interest in fictional characters and cultures. You can practise while watching anime or dramas. It's amazing how much you can pick up watching stuff in the original language and reading English subs.

(Of course. If you have no place to practise the language, you lose it pretty fast. )

Fun fact. I once forgot how to pen "flower" in hiragana during an exam, so I wrote down the Chinese character for it. which thankfully existed in Kanji so the teacher gave me the mark. Didn't work so well when I tried the same method of substituting Chinese characters for other words.

Vompatti wrote:I woudlndt' midn learning Hebrew butt I'd reather learn Sanskrit..

Shalom! Your avatar's cute. I think I've told you before. Either that, or I said it to the Ice Bear.

I took a little of Japanese in university, which was probably easier to pick up since I already knew Mandarin. I heard somewhere about how certain languages are categorized (Mandarin, Japanese / Hebrew, Arabic / German, English) which makes related languages easier to pick up but not sure if it's true for all.

A Person wrote:

I came across this video a few weeks ago. After my first trial lesson in Hebrew, I just might be able to pick up this song.

Rāgas and maqamat, everyone.

I'd like to learn Hebrew.

In addition to Japanese and Korean.

But I guess I'd have to brush up on my Mother Tongue and dialect first.

Vompatti wrote:when i used ratpoison i had caps lock bound to ctrl+t.

I like your avatar.

Happy birthday, Singapore.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:

Heiots wrote:Watching Quarantine 2 with my sister (quit after the first fifteen minutes), and proceeding to read up on rabies and parasites that alter behaviour.

The whole cordyceps thing is wearing out faster than the revival of zombies as an antagonistic story device did.

Seriously like the last 10 years, everything has had fucking zombies in it.

Since I got Hulu again I started watching Metalocalypse for the first time since I was in junior high. The dark humor isnt as lost on me as it used to be. It's actually pretty funny so far, in very fucked up ways.

A Person wrote:Cordyceps is crazy as heck but I don't want to watch any more zombie films no matter how the idea is spun.

I'm not as familiar with the cordyceps idea as with zombies (though I tend to avoid stories with both incorporated in them). My sister was watching Wayward Pines the other day and I asked her if that wasn't similar to The Walking Dead. I suppose when you get down to the details, they're different, but it's all about the affected feeding on humans so...

ETA: I've now moved on from reading about parasites to watching YT videos about the influence of the Illuminati in society. Fun stuff.

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Watching Quarantine 2 with my sister (quit after the first fifteen minutes), and proceeding to read up on rabies and parasites that alter behaviour.

May the metronome die a fiery death.