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Wanderlust - stop tempting me!!!
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Solfrid Cristin
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Message 41 of 43

06 January 2011 at 7:48pm | IP Logged

Thatzright wrote:

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

If we Norwegians were to hold on to grudges from the past we would for ever be bitter at all our neighbours (the Danes for keeping us as a colony for 400 years and stealing Groenland from us, the Swedes for denying us our freedom when we wanted it in 1814 and for stealing the territories of Jämtland and Herjedalen, the English for putting up a blokade during the Napoleonic war which made thousands of Norwegians starve to death. You get my drift?

*Ehrm...* Representing the only neighbouring country that has never screwed Norway over in any way (I don't recall Russia doing anything either, but it's just not possible that she never has :-]) I recommend a jointly-operated full-on surprise assault on Sweden -_- Finland and Norway will then divide its territory 50%-50%.

I kid, I kid.

Oooh tempting, tempting :)

(Oh, and I actually think that Russia is in the clear as far as Norway is concerned.)
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CheeseInsider
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Message 42 of 43

08 January 2011 at 9:59am | IP Logged

1) Which extra languages would you like to do, if you had the time and capacity?
2) How do you resist the temptation?
3) And those of you who instead of resisting the temptation, embrace it, how do you cope?

1. Russian!!!!! Russian Russian Russian Russian <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 RUSSIAN! And Portuguese with the European dialect. And German was on the list before I took it up!

2. I resisted the temptation for Russian (even now it's difficult) and Portuguese, but I failed with German. Oh well! For me it's easier than for others I think because my goal is to speak at least 4 of the 6 United Nations languages so that I can get work at the United Nations as an interpreter. I have English and Mandarin. Studying French now, so I'm already pretty close to my goal. Now it's just all about patience... Knowing that I have my whole life ahead of me :)

3. I decided what the heck, my French is good enough for me to study it just from reading and watching movies, I don't need to actively study for it to improve. So I took up German. I haven't regretted it since! I love German, and I have a lot of spare time. I'm homeschooled :) With the amount of free time I have I could take up another language or two! But I'm going to wait until I reach a solid level in German before that!

Edited by CheeseInsider on 08 January 2011 at 10:01am
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Sennin
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Message 43 of 43

08 January 2011 at 12:19pm | IP Logged

1. I'll have to agree with CheeseInsider about Russian. And then also Japanese, Manadrin, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.

2. My dedication is fanatical ...

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