[ SECRET POST #2508 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2508 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Sherlock]


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03.
[Dragon Age 2, Skyrim]


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04.
[Revolution]


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05.
[The Avengers]


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06.
[Cardcaptor Sakura]


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07.
[Monster High]


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08.
[Oz]


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09.
(Law & Order: Criminal Intent)


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10.
[Aimée Castle]


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[Shrek, Game of Thrones]


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12.
[Oz]


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13.
[SimCity Societies]


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14.
[xxxHolic]


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15.
[Michael Keaton]


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16.
[By Any Means]


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17.
[Downton Abbey/The Forsyte Saga]









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Comments

Re: How is everyone today?

[anonymouslyyours]

I think some of my anxiety comes from the fact that even as an English speaker I am not extremely conversationally outgoing, I absolutely hate being misunderstood or choosing my words poorly. I've been taking jobs in customer service as a way to overcome that and it's working for the most part. I am really great at talking about anything with anyone (one of the benefits of an intensely curious but short attention span I guess) if I get out of my head a little.

I grew up in Texas and sort of just picked it up without any intent? If I'm around a foreign language for a couple of weeks I start to vaguely understand speakers. I did take two semesters of Spanish in college for easy credit though.

I do know what you mean about native speakers of foreign languages being very appreciative of even the most fumbling attempts. I had a lovely experience with an elderly German lady who was so excited to meet someone outside her family she could talk to even haltingly last month. :) I'm just so conscious about cultural implications and context for everything I say in English the thought I could be unknowingly implying an attitude or association intimidates me so much.

eta: also I love having people assume I don't speak their language and listen to them gossip about the people around them. Sometimes when I do not actually understand what they're saying I will still tell them to have a good day or some other generic phrase I do know in their language and smile knowingly just to see the look of horror on their face. :)

Re: How is everyone today?

[khronos_keeper]

I'm with you on being not terribly outgoing in conversation, and I think the only reason I managed to get past that was the fact that I'm curious about freaking everything, so I have to ask people to expand. Plus being in grad school forces me to engage about the subject that I'm studying.

That's pretty awesome, being able to pick up languages through like osmosis. :D I had a Mexican roommate for my last two years of college, and she sometimes spoke Spanish to her friends. I now have an Ecuadorean roommate, and while they're different dialects, I can sort of pick up the gist of her conversations with her family. (Which haha yeah creepy a little, but it's her fault if she decides to talk on the phone with her folks while I'm in the car with her. It'snot my fault if I accidentally understand shit.)

Awwww sweet old German lady that is like the cutest thing ever. But you really shouldn't worry too much about accidentally saying something wrong or off-- native speakers mostly think it's hilarious if you say something that implies something else. Making mistakes can be one of the most gratifying things about language, because it injects humor into the situation, and you actually learn better from mistakes than you do from constantly getting things right.

I remember during one of my Arabic classes, my Lebanese professor was getting worked up that we were getting worked up. She started dong this hand gesture that in New York (in areas with a heavy Italian population, anyway), meant aggravation. The pinched together, upright fingers, shaking up and down thing.

Me and one of my classmates from NYC were like, "Are you going to hit us? Because you look pissed, with that hand thing." And she burst out laughing, and explained that in Arabic countries, mothers do that gesture for their children, which was supposed to mean, "Calm down, take it easy." So we had completely different cultural connotations for that gesture, but it ended up alright in the end, and we all learned something.

Also eavesdropping in a foreign language is the shit. You can learn so much.