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Posted 30 April 2020 - 06:58 AM
Here's a topic I don't think we've ever discussed on here.
Anyone speak/fluent in a different language? I took AP Spanish through high school and by senior year I was pretty good. Of course I then didn't use it at all for about 20 years, but I started picking it up again a few months back and was amazed at how much I remembered. Been trying to work on it and improve it recently, and while I still have trouble writing or speaking it myself, I can listen to or read conversations pretty well.
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Posted 30 April 2020 - 07:10 AM
Here's a topic I don't think we've ever discussed on here.
Anyone speak/fluent in a different language? I took AP Spanish through high school and by senior year I was pretty good. Of course I then didn't use it at all for about 20 years, but I started picking it up again a few months back and was amazed at how much I remembered. Been trying to work on it and improve it recently, and while I still have trouble writing or speaking it myself, I can listen to or read conversations pretty well.
No, but I wish I did. It's a very valuable skill to have. Keep it up.
I've been to Mexico twice, Dominican, and Germany. Before each trip I'd spend a couple weeks trying to learn the basics, more than just please and thank you, because people in other countries appreciate the effort of trying to speak their language. They seem more friendly if you try before you ask them if they know English.
Used a lot of google translate in Germany. Feel like a misconception is people know a little english everywhere. But out of the tourist areas, some don't know any english. So going to the grocery store, or bakery, deli, google translate helped a lot.
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Posted 30 April 2020 - 09:43 AM
I minored in Spanish in college (really only did so because I tested in to a high level and only really needed like 3 more courses to qualify).
I still use it a decent amount for work - not great at speaking but I can very easily read and write with little issues. Texting the Spanish-speaking clients is far easier than a phone call with them 
HOF
Posted 30 April 2020 - 09:45 AM
la cerveza está muy fría
Posted 30 April 2020 - 11:19 AM
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HOF
Posted 30 April 2020 - 02:48 PM
Eu falo pequeno Portuguese. Minha namorada é Brazilada. Entende?
You speak a little Portuguese. Something is Brazilian. Understand?
That's the best I can do on that one without cheating.
la cerveza está muy fría
Posted 30 April 2020 - 03:17 PM
Pretty close, my girlfriend (namorada) is Brazilian, so I've been learning it for a few years now. Frankly I'm still terrible with it, but I'm taking my duolingo lessons into overdrive during the lockdown.
@fuzydunlop
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Posted 30 April 2020 - 03:20 PM
Took 5 years of Spanish in middle and high school and took German for 2 years in HS as well.
I wish I had kept them up. Barely remember anything at this point.
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Posted 30 April 2020 - 03:41 PM
I Miss McNulty
Posted 30 April 2020 - 03:45 PM
Two years of French in middle school
Two years of French in high school
Two semesters of French in college
Remember very little but I was surprised how I could "somewhat" converse very simplistically when I was in Paris two years ago.
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Posted 11 May 2020 - 09:20 AM
Alright you maggots! What's your best mile time?
My son just turned 12 and has been on-again / off-again trying for the last few months to get under 7 minutes. I have no doubt that he can do it easily but he paces himself too much and then can't catch up. Yesterday I ran with him to pace him and he came in at 7:01.
I remember as a freshman in HS I ran a 5:50 during gym. That was with no training, no real exercising other than being a normal active 14-year old. I thought that was pretty good all things considering.
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Posted 11 May 2020 - 09:57 AM
Probably 8 mins. In elementary school I came in under 9 mins once. I was always over 10-11 mins when I got bigger. Coast Guard standard we had to do 1.5 miles in 12:51 or less. I was always clocking in pretty damn close to it. I lost a bit of weight and once I did it in 11:58, meaning I was pacing about an 8 minute mile. But I'd also go hard first for as long as I could. Jog it out. Sprint as hard as I could until the last 200 yards or so.
Make me run mile today I'd probably do it in a shade under 12. No, I'm not proud.
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Posted 11 May 2020 - 10:05 AM
Probably 8 mins. In elementary school I came in under 9 mins once. I was always over 10-11 mins when I got bigger. Coast Guard standard we had to do 1.5 miles in 12:51 or less. I was always clocking in pretty damn close to it. I lost a bit of weight and once I did it in 11:58, meaning I was pacing about an 8 minute mile. But I'd also go hard first for as long as I could. Jog it out. Sprint as hard as I could until the last 200 yards or so.
Make me run mile today I'd probably do it in a shade under 12. No, I'm not proud.
Yeah - to be clear, when I said I paced my son to a 7:01...I ran the 1st and 2nd lap with him, took a lap off, then picked him up again for the 4th. I'm in awful shape but I'm a pretty thin guy with long legs so I could probably still run it in around 8:00 or so right off the couch right now.
Part of me wishes I had run cross-country in HS because I think I really would have been good at it. But the part of me that hates running always got in the way.
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Posted 11 May 2020 - 10:10 AM
Yeah - to be clear, when I said I paced my son to a 7:01...I ran the 1st and 2nd lap with him, took a lap off, then picked him up again for the 4th. I'm in awful shape but I'm a pretty thin guy with long legs so I could probably still run it in around 8:00 or so right off the couch right now.
Part of me wishes I had run cross-country in HS because I think I really would have been good at it. But the part of me that hates running always got in the way.
Yeah, I hate running just to run. But put a ball out there and I'll chase a basketball around a gym or shag after fly balls for hours.
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Posted 11 May 2020 - 10:26 AM
OTV
Posted 11 May 2020 - 06:43 PM
Yeah, I hate running just to run. But put a ball out there and I'll chase a basketball around a gym or shag after fly balls for hours.
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Posted 11 May 2020 - 06:54 PM
When I'm actually doing something, I have incredible stamina... doesn't matter how much I'm sweating or tired, I just keep on chugging. I wear out people half my age. Whatever it is, I just wanna get it done. I'll rest up once that happens. (But if I sit down for 10 minutes, it's all over.)
When I'm exercising for it's own sake, I have almost no stamina at all. I wish I did, but I don't. I hate it. I get bored.
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Posted 19 June 2020 - 07:20 PM
Anmol Narang Becomes First Observant Sikh To Graduate From United States Military Academy
“I am excited and honoured to be fulfilling my dream of graduating from West Point on Saturday,” 2LT Narang said in a statement on the eve of the historic occasion.
“The confidence and support of my community back home in Georgia has been deeply meaningful to me, and I am humbled that in reaching this goal, I am showing other Sikh Americans that any career path is possible for anyone willing to rise to the challenge,” she said.
https://www.republic...LQRsf5HCnn5cJOw
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