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ennime
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South Africa
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Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans
Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu

 
 Message 161 of 202
24 April 2009 at 8:13pm | IP Logged 
General comment: can people please leave my name out of off-topic (meaning non-
language learning) discussion... I merely stated my gender as per the topic, not as a
loose cannon (despite the joke)

Edited by ennime on 24 April 2009 at 8:13pm
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jbbar
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Belgium
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 Message 162 of 202
24 April 2009 at 9:29pm | IP Logged 
Dark_Sunshine wrote:
My final comments before I leave this thread for good:

I haven't once ranted about gay rights. I believe jbbar had the first off topic rant (possibly not on this thread) when he started going on about homosexuality being unnatural. Several other similar comments have been made in recent threads, not just by jbbar, and I haven't 'ranted' once, because it is indeed OFF-TOPIC.

So why when I make a passing comment that there have been a few right-wing Christian fundamentalist views displayed on this forum recently do I get such a bashing? It's simply the truth! I don't object to being called atheist,feminist, ultra-liberal, or left-wing, so why are you guys so offended by this label?

I do however object to sexist, personal insults such as 'airhead'.

Where is the moderator anyway? This thread has crossed so many lines it's unbelievable.


Right, you're showing your hypocrisy once more. You just lump Christians, right-wingers and social conservatives together and label them fundamentalists, basically refering to them as a pain in butt on this forum and implying they are dangerous fanatics who pose a threat to you and other people's liberty. So again I suggest you write the moderators and admin and ask them to ban anyone who dares stating his non-leftist, non-atheist views. That is what you and many others really seem to want. I'm not asking anyone to agree with me though. I don't mind that people disagree with me if at least they remain respectful of my integrity as an individual.

Oh and my comment on homosexuality in the other thread was in reply to a question asked by Jar-Ptisa and it was not really that off-topic since I was pointing out why I don't consider so-called 'homophobia' and racism to be equally objectionable. At least I was arguing my point in a civil manner, without attacking or labeling Jar-Ptisa for merely disagreeing with my 'narrow-minded' views. You people really do suck at putting things in proper context, I must say.

Having said that, I will leave to the other members to judge my post for themselves. I never had the intention of hijacking this thread anyway. I respect the original poster of this thread so if anyone has a problem with my views, I kindly ask you to PM me. Don't expect me to answer to airheads who attack people for disagreeing with their 'open-minded' views but can't argue their points though!

Have a noice weekend y'all.

jbbar

Edited by jbbar on 24 April 2009 at 9:30pm
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Jar-ptitsa
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Belgium
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 Message 163 of 202
24 April 2009 at 9:52pm | IP Logged 
jbbar wrote:

Oh and my comment on homosexuality in the other thread was in reply to a question asked by Jar-Ptisa and it was not really that off-topic since I was pointing out why I don't consider so-called 'homophobia' and racism to be equally objectionable. At least I was arguing my point in a civil manner, without attacking or labeling Jar-Ptisa for merely disagreeing with my 'narrow-minded' views. You people really do suck at putting things in proper context, I must say.


I'm not homosexual but I don't like homophobia, because I don't like prejudice in general. There exist many diverse type of prejudice and I hate all of those. I have experienced it and it's horrible. I havne't told nobody that they've narrow-minded views because of religion but my own views are liberal. I've thought very much about such things. I'm religious but not against the other relgions and I don't attack or label people for their religion or other things excepted if they attack me: in my opinion the labels are ok if the person find it ok for himself/herself. Categoristaion can be acceptable, but not always and it's very important that the people respect the feelings of the person about whom they make the label. Maybe the people who find homosexuality wrong can accept that all the people are individuals and different, and that they can therefore not judge nastily those homosexuals, but accept the differences.
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Jar-ptitsa
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 Message 165 of 202
24 April 2009 at 10:29pm | IP Logged 
zocurtis wrote:
A Challenge To All Female Foreign Language Learners

I would like to throw out a challenge to all female foreign language learners. As we all know, alot of the Youtube videos that are posted giving encouragement and sound advice to aspiring language learners are all done by males. I found this strange seeing as we have found through this thread that there are more female polyglots than we know. I believe it would be very helpful to the community and inspiring if some of the women polyglots who have visited this thread can add their encouragement to the community by posting Youtube videos that will also be an inspiration to all language learners. It seems that many females are afraid to do this or maybe for some other reason but it would be very helpful. Besides, we all know that women are better teachers. Thanks!


About some months ago I put a recording on Youtube: I played the piano (two pieces) and some people here (this forum) listened it, for example JW and JonB, but in my school it's not allowed and also my parents don't allow to have an account with youtube or to put videos there. Therefore I had to delete my account.
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Britomartis
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United States
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 Message 166 of 202
25 April 2009 at 2:59am | IP Logged 
zocurtis wrote:
A Challenge To All Female Foreign Language Learners

I would like to throw out a challenge to all female foreign language learners. As we all know, alot of the Youtube videos that are posted giving encouragement and sound advice to aspiring language learners are all done by males.


Actually, I've found many by woman, especially a particularly good one on writing the Arabic script. And I don't think that women are better teachers in general (I'm a girl so I can say this for sure). I suspect that teaching is gender-neutral, but I'd have to look at the statistical data for that one.
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Fasulye
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 Message 167 of 202
25 April 2009 at 11:10am | IP Logged 
zocurtis wrote:
A Challenge To All Female Foreign Language Learners

I would like to throw out a challenge to all female foreign language learners. As we all know, alot of the Youtube videos that are posted giving encouragement and sound advice to aspiring language learners are all done by males. I found this strange seeing as we have found through this thread that there are more female polyglots than we know. I believe it would be very helpful to the community and inspiring if some of the women polyglots who have visited this thread can add their encouragement to the community by posting Youtube videos that will also be an inspiration to all language learners. It seems that many females are afraid to do this or maybe for some other reason but it would be very helpful. Besides, we all know that women are better teachers. Thanks!


EN: Firstly I don't have the technical equipment and technical skills to make video recordings. Secondly I don't have any didactical concept of teaching polyglottery to others. This should rather do a professional teacher. For me it's more a personal project which I like to share with other language freaks. And thirdly I like to maintain my anonimity within the internet. So I will not be the person to stand before an anonymous audience.

Fasulye-Babylonia



Edited by Fasulye on 25 April 2009 at 11:13am
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lady_skywalker
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 Message 168 of 202
25 April 2009 at 2:03pm | IP Logged 
zocurtis wrote:
A Challenge To All Female Foreign Language Learners

I would like to throw out a challenge to all female foreign language learners. As we all know, alot of the Youtube videos that are posted giving encouragement and sound advice to aspiring language learners are all done by males. I found this strange seeing as we have found through this thread that there are more female polyglots than we know. I believe it would be very helpful to the community and inspiring if some of the women polyglots who have visited this thread can add their encouragement to the community by posting Youtube videos that will also be an inspiration to all language learners. It seems that many females are afraid to do this or maybe for some other reason but it would be very helpful. Besides, we all know that women are better teachers. Thanks!


I'm going to pass on this challenge. I don't like putting videos up on Youtube for personal reasons...plus I don't have a webcam or any device I could use for recording and I'm a terrible teacher. A blog is as far as I'll go with regards to sharing my knowledge.


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