Seriously X-men shit

[watchful_falcon]

Don't you just love bering bombarded by radiation in an attempt to determine if you're normal, or a Genetic "step forward?"

Apparently, My lack of third molars on the bottom makes me a piece of an evolutionary chain or some such. Woop dee doo.

Whatever. Dentist trips suck.

Undomesticated Equines

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[anaibb]

Wow! You've only got 3 teeth missing. I've got 6 teeth less than normal humans are supposed to have because they just weren't there underneath the milk teeth.
Is "Undomesticated Equines" a reference to "Wilf Horses" by the Rolling Stones?
Do you agree with all the stuff about people from Pittsburgh in your profile? I checked several I can more or less refer to and I was disappointed to find that what they have for Spanish and Hispanic have some of the same points and aren't in common really. I remember a friend (Catalan/Spanish) getting cross because in Kill Bill Vol 2 there was a typical (and clichéd) Spanish song when the Bride was driving round Mexico looking for Bill. The lyrics matched with what had happened before in the film, but it's not a flattering confusion in either side. I'm not talking about myself, I'm too mixed up to bother.

[watchful_falcon]

Well, that Pittsburgher thing has a few really good ones, but alot of them are off. It's really just a place holder until I find something I like better.

Undomesticated Equines is actually from an old episode of Stargate: SG-1, and there's a post about it way back in the archives somewhere.

For a long time I wanted to be bilingual, but it proved to be too much for me. Maybe if I'd started younger, it would have worked, but Spanish never came easy to me.

Anyway, I think I'll add you to my friends list.

[anaibb]

I like your term "place holder", don't know why. For a moment I thought of "people holder", but that's basically all cities or places with people ;-P.
OK... I've never watched any Stargate...
I'm now learning French in university and I'd like to go as an Erasmus (exchange) student to France sometime in the next 2 or 3 years, this summer as well, see if I can get a job. I'm an early bilingual-trilingual because of my family and from living in Catalonia. French is my first really foreign language. How old were you when you started wanting to learn Spanish? I believe my dad was in his mid 20s when he went to Venezuela and he barely knew a word in Spanish then, and now, after having lived for about 25 years outside of UK in Spanish-speaking coutries he's really fluent and barely has an accent, and always has been for as long as I remember. So there is hope...
That's always so nice and flattering when someone adds you like this. I've just added you back.

[watchful_falcon]

I was 13 or so when I theoretically started learning, but it was little things like tigre or azul. I didn't learn anything more complex for a few years. I nearly failed the first few years of real instruction (14 through 16), and despite doing better last year, I decided to drop it for the sake of my GPA.

I imagine if I moved out of the US to somewhere spanish speaking, I could get it down, but I just don't see that happening for a long time.

Anyway, while I'm sure I could learn it if I were in a position to use it everyday, it's not the top of my prioritys anymore.

I hear that a third language is easier to pick up than a second, though having grown up with two that probably won't be your experience. Good luck with it regardless; Trilingualism(sp?) is very cool.

[anaibb]

You can still get a second language, but it'd be easier through immercion. The father of one of my uncles said that if he could live his life all over again he'd learn music and a foreign language, he only speaks English and I was translating parts of our Spanish newspaper the day after the Barça-Celtic game he had come to watch.
Yes, and so on and so forth with the third, fourth and fifth... I'm having a bit of trouble with French but I was surprised to find myself last frieday speaking more fluently with the teacher than I had ever had before. I've grown up with English, Spanish and Catalan around me because of my family and friends and where I live. I was six when we moved to Catalonia so it was easy to learn the language at school and all.