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A happy player leaving a successful club where he's playing very well just for money. Fuck that. Dani Alves FTW :cool3:

Agreed. I've seen this posted everywhere, but I can't stand it. My thought exactly.

Also Adriana, you should reword that poll. (Is that possible?)

http://foknewschannel.com/wikileaks-japan-was-warned-about-fukushima/ The Japanese government is to blame for its poor preparedness and safety standards, not nuclear power as a whole.

Do you have Fox Soccer Channel? They'll most likely broadcast whichever game ESPN isn't broadcasting (my guess would be that ESPN will pick up the Man U/Chelsea and Real Madrid/Tottenham games).

This line right here made me think of Iraq, where there weren't any major problems until the US came.

I'm 'comfortable' with any Romance language, and German wouldn't be too difficult for me.

Milica (old poster) has a pretty interesting view on this whole situation. She's from Serbia, and there was a large amount of UN 'intervention' there years ago. I'll ask her to post.

DC = 1.5 hour drive. I wouldn't drive that far by myself for a show. It'd be cool if I had company, but everyone I know would only travel that far for a Lil Wayne/Lady Gaga/Justin Bieber show.

:o Wow. Good job...that sounds exactly right.

That reminds me...Royksopp and Jon Hopkins will be in DC tomorrow night but nobody wants to go see them with me :(

My interpretation: sunset but when im late arrive (wut) wanna have cup of tea tonight cause the winter has arrived cause the winter has arrived sunrise with you in the morning we met good times to stop calling but i started to fall we met yesterday at the disco talked about moving to cisco ohh away from the petrol kids arent safe in the metro we met yesterday at the disco talked about moving to cisco ohh away from the petrol kids arent safe in the metro safe in the metro mornings came with nightmares and all the day time my heart aches cause it takes what he takes yes it takes what he takes yes it takes what he takes we met yesterday at the disco talked about moving to cisco ohh away from the petrol kids arent safe in the metro we met yesterday at the disco talked about moving to cisco ohh away from the petrol kids arent safe in the metro i never thought that this was the city where i could stay where i could stay but there was this girl there was this girl if i could go all away we met yesterday at the disco talked about moving to cisco ohh away from the petrol kids arent safe in the metro

This is one of my favorite songs, but I can't really understand what he's saying with his Finnish accent. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3O8ELvMkDw]YouTube - Satellite Stories - Kids Aren't Safe In The Metro[/ame] We met yesterday at the disco, talked about moving to cisco? Wut. Anybody wanna help? /random thread because the lounge is boring

I snorted lines of cocaine off strippers' asses. Next.

I think it's safe to say that Chinese is out of the running now. Haha thanks for all the advice Ricardo. Nice job typing all that out. Must have taken hours :laugh1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_similarity It seems Italian and French are also very similar, but everything is pronounced much differently.

Of all the languages mentioned so far, Spanish and Portuguese are certainly the most similar, and I've had no trouble with them.

English, Spanish, and Mandarin (Chinese) are the three most widely spoken languages. It all depends on how you're looking at it (native speakers v non-native speakers, etc.) Yea I know what you mean by 'most large companies' employees know english', but American companies want employees who work for THEM who speak those other languages, you know. I would also consider working for a foreign company and using my English skills as an asset.

Well no, I'm not sure what 'area' of international business I'm looking to work in. I just want to have a job that will allow me to travel as much as possible (who wouldn't want to travel to Rome, Paris, or Barcelona for 'work'?). I think that this degree, along with extensive knowledge of languages will allow me to do that.

Where is 'here' then? :confused:

I should also add that I'll be majoring in International Business, so these decisions are extremely important.

I don't think I would ever just 'give up' on a language. I wouldn't want to lose all of my progress. Stick with it. Yes I know...that's why I've been able to teach myself so much Portuguese. No need for a teacher when you already know 95% of the grammar rules. Yea, that's what I've been thinking. 4 years of Chinese/Arabic won't leave me anywhere near fluent. In the time it would take me to learn just one of those two languages, I could probably learn two Romance languages. Which is more useful? Fluency in a handful of languages, or a basic understanding of chinese?? :thinking:

First time in history? Ahh that brings up a point that I failed to mention. It's nearly impossible to really understand a language without ever living in a place where it's spoken and/or interacting with native speakers. So this decision is not only about what I'm going to study, but it's also about where I'm going to study/live some day. The European languages probably have an advantage over the Asian languages in this respect (although I would love to visit Japan some day).

I'm sure some smart people will come in and say 'Well Arabic and Chinese are the most useful in the economy today'. Yea I know, and I'm going to factor that into my final decision, but I also like studying languages for their culture and such, so please don't vote based solely on the potential economic implications. Oh and I voted French and Italian, because those are my top two at the moment.

Soon I'll be choosing what courses to take for my first year of Uni...and I'd like to study at least 3 languages. I already speak Spanish and Portuguese fairly well, so I'll definitely study those, but I'd also like to study maybe one or two more. The language courses offered are: Arabic ASL Chinese French German Greek Hebrew Italian Japanese Latin Portuguese Russian Spanish Swahili Tagalog Some of these don't interest me and/or I don't find them useful enough to study at this point in my life. I've already stated that I'll be studying Portuguese and Spanish, so I need to choose either one or two of the following: Arabic Chinese French German Italian Japanese What do you think, Coldplayers? "To know only one's own language is to remain a child." Cicero