Recent content by mikeysnakes

No matter how you end up learning, the basic is still the same. This year,spend your time developing a good base in the language, and with a base, your first few months will be rocky but fulfilling. You wont reach a native level by any means, but you can hold conversations, have friendships...

As someone who was in almost the exact same boat as you, nothing at all can beat an actual class with a good teacher, preferably at a college. The reason being is that a lot of things will be difficult to get your head around in America, but if a teacher drills into your head a word like 10,000...

I just think that EA really has no clue how to act or advertise their shit, and therefore say things that they think will get them more fans but really just alienate people.

Here I was thinking I bought CDs because I'm a bit of an audiophile and can't deal with shittily ripped sound files, but thank you soulless insurance company, I didn't know that all I was trying to do was save people from dying at a concert. But seriously, I can't even believe that people...

Well Linguistics and Dictionaries never really agree anyway, the only possible reply I can have is that you can understand "aglet" by breaking it down. Considering you're a master of etymology.

You have a point there, but an important point I forgot is that when borrowed words vowels or consonants are changed, it's usually because the language borrowing doesn't have the sound. Like how english speakers say Bach since we don't have the same consonant at the end. Spaghetti's geminate t...

Actually that pronunciation is a little anglicized. But it's hell of a lot closer than what some people would say. Those are different, those are what would be called borrowed words, there were no other ways to describe these things in the English language, especially Bjork (~_^). But manga...

マンガ　or /maNga/ Vowels are always the same in Japanese so it's not very difficult. It's always pronounced the same way so there's no reason to change the pronunciation, and there's no accenting in Japanese. Any other way is wrong because manga is solely the...

I hope for that, maybe then all relationships will be based on how well the people work with each other, and the next generation wont need to worry about being involved with crazy motherfuckers who "just want to start a family already!" If only. I don't think you're supporting that idea, but...

The right to slander isn't a part of free speech. Only the idiots who try to oppress these people really need to worry about what will happen to them.

Well as someone who lived through the March 11th earthquake, there are a few different feelings I have about this issue. The first being that western media seriously blew the nuclear plant out of its proportion. BUT the tsunami were where most of the people had died. Yeah sure we have special...

Yeah, and more importantly, why would a lesbian need an egg? Usually sperm is what they'd need to be artificially inseminated. And that might be the most non-chalantly yet hateful thing I've seen this week. Anyway, I didn't see anyone mention, but it is a surgery and there are some pretty...

It was a dick move to make this thread, I'm not exactly in love with the other evolution topics but this is just ridiculous. Have we ever listened to creation scientists, but not ones who have said they're wrong? Listen, I'm not going to bullshit and say that I'm well endowed in scientific...

Wait, as far as I recall, the US is still a country troubled with a rising birth rate no matter what right? So who cares if less people are having kids if we're not at a dangerously falling birthrate level. The way I feel is that, there are far more children who are already living and will have...

I've always felt like Final Fantasy 7 was just a slightly changed version of Final Fantasy 6, that's part of why I didn't fall in love with it. Also as a twist, the twist of the game is great, but it ends up just making Cloud have no character whatsoever, so for me I felt the story fell apart a...