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11-16-2007, 01:56 AM
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oohhh I just want to cry (ok... MAYBE that time of month is near!) but I LOVE the fact that Gypsy & Crysanthi (oops probably bad spelling SORRY!!) have reached an understanding... but the thing that impressed me most is that you are both so eloquent in what I THINK is not your 1st language(s).... DAMN!!!! I can barely speak English (ok so maybe cause I am American?!?
 ) much less another language (part of America's "superior" education system no doubt! )anyhow.... thank you for a very interesting forum experience you two! |
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11-16-2007, 02:27 AM
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11-16-2007, 04:23 AM
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Sometimes if you hear people in Greece and other Mediterranean countries quarreling you think that they are going to kill each other right away, but some minutes later everything is o.k. and they are friends again (well not always, but usually). I got quite sometimes misunderstood here in Germany because of my Mediterranean temperament. Germans don't get angry that easily, but if they do, it's serious, so they can't understand that the anger of Mediterranean people shouldn't always be taken seriously.
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11-16-2007, 04:34 AM
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 You know, when you come from a rather small country with rather few population and a mother tongue which is hardly spoken anywhere outside your country (although in the case of my mother tongue-Greek- you have many words of it in every European language, but most people can't recognise them as being Greek), you cannot do different but learn some foreign languages and especially English which is THE international language of today. To be honest though, I don't know myself why I speak English that well, since I have never lived in an English speaking country. O.k. I started learning English at the age of 9, when I was still living in Greece and later I studied English for about one year at the university in Germany parallel with my German studies (I changed the subject into education though, because it was too much to study two foreign languages at the same time as main subjects) and of course I've red many English books in my life and I've always had good friends who are native speakers (British, American, Australian etc.). I think it is just a matter of exercise and necessity I don't know about Gypsy, if he has ever lived in any English speaking country, but his English is indeed excellent 
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11-16-2007, 04:35 AM
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