Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian
| Message 409 of 672 23 April 2012 at 12:43am | IP Logged |
Tecktight wrote:
How the Camel Lost His Good Looks
They say that long, long ago, the Camel used to be one of the most handsome animals.
He had a long fluffy tail and nice and mighty horns.
All the animals in the forest and the steppe were envious of the Camel. Many of them
wanted to have the kind of tail that the camel had, or the kind of horns he had.
The Camel knew of this and said proudly:
--"You won't find the kind of tail I have, or the horns, anywhere else in the world!"
But it would have been better had he not boasted.
Once, he came to the river to have a drink of water and there met a Maral.
--"I'm invited to a party. Will you lend me your horns, just for a while?" asked the
Maral.
The Camel lent him his horns. Later on that very day the Camel met a horse.
--"I'm invited to a party," said the Horse. "Will you lend me your tail?"
The Camel agreed and stayed on the bank of the river. The Maral and the Horse ran off.
All day long the Camel drank water and looked up the road while waiting for them. But
there
was no sign of either the Maral nor the Horse.
The Maral had deceived the Camel and skipped over to the taiga. he stayed there forever
and never
went out into the open steppe. He got accustomed to the horns as if they were his.
The Horse never gave back the borrowed tail and when he comes across the Camel, he gets
frightened and runs away.
That is how the Camel lost his good looks and sweet temper.
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That story had me chuckling all day :D
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4710 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 410 of 672 23 April 2012 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
I think, we had a great skype session yesterday. I can't wait for lesson 4 dialogues. Also, 6WC and the super challange are at hand. Great!
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 411 of 672 24 April 2012 at 4:10am | IP Logged |
Sorry guys, I missed our session =/ Are you planning on having another one soon?
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 412 of 672 24 April 2012 at 8:02am | IP Logged |
We didn't discuss that, but How about Sunday In two weeks, 8 o'clock Norwegian time?
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 413 of 672 24 April 2012 at 12:36pm | IP Logged |
That would be... May 6th, then?
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4710 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 414 of 672 24 April 2012 at 4:36pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
We didn't discuss that, but How about Sunday In two weeks, 8 o'clock Norwegian time? |
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Great!
I'd like also to suggest, more Russian and less English in both the skype sessions, and in this thread. как вы думаете?
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 415 of 672 24 April 2012 at 4:56pm | IP Logged |
So that's Sunday, 6th May at 8pm Norwegian time (i.e. 7pm UK time)? I'll try to make it to the Skype session too. :)
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 416 of 672 26 April 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged |
@Tecktight
I like your jazzy tree!
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