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Not much... just chilling out.

I maybe out for a bit tomorrow... but really I have little planned this week.
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Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Okay, in the last  10 and a half hours, I've made over 100 postsLOL
 
Nice. Cool
 
I can be a witness to that too, since I remember your post count when we were talking last night. Wink
 
How did you get so many during the time that no one was here though? Posting on a bunch of other threads?
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How on earth did GB win a silver in High Jump?! LOL
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Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Okay, in the last  10 and a half hours, I've made over 100 postsLOL
 
Nice. Cool
 
I can be a witness to that too, since I remember your post count when we were talking last night. Wink
 
How did you get so many during the time that no one was here though? Posting on a bunch of other threads?


Indeed, Alex knows I had less than 9100 at the start of my posting todayBig%20smile
I was posting in other threads (for onceLOL)
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2008 at 09:19
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Not much... just chilling out.

I maybe out for a bit tomorrow... but really I have little planned this week.
 
Yeah, I have a similar schedule. I start college on Monday (mixed feelings about that), but I have nothing planned at all so far this week. I'll find things to do, I'd imagine.
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

How on earth did GB win a silver in High Jump?! LOL
 
I have no clue. LOL
 
I hardly have been watching the Olympics, if at all. Just a few minutes here and there. Maybe I should have watched a bit more.
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I need to study again... I hate studying but at least it's kind of fruitful.

I want to learn Latin... I'm not sure of the best way to go about it though.
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Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Okay, in the last  10 and a half hours, I've made over 100 postsLOL
 
Nice. Cool
 
I can be a witness to that too, since I remember your post count when we were talking last night. Wink
 
How did you get so many during the time that no one was here though? Posting on a bunch of other threads?


Indeed, Alex knows I had less than 9100 at the start of my posting todayBig%20smile
I was posting in other threads (for onceLOL)
 
Yep. Big%20smile
 
Though it was a bit after midnight when I left last night. Wink
 
I post in other threads as well, but if there are a decent amount of people predominantly in here, then I like to spend most (if not all) of that posting time in here or else I can't keep up.
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

I need to study again... I hate studying but at least it's kind of fruitful.

I want to learn Latin... I'm not sure of the best way to go about it though.
 
Sometimes I like studying, sometimes it's not as fun. Depends on the subject and the circumstances of my life at the time.
 
I took Latin all of my four years of high school, so I still remember a good amount. If you're going to teach yourself though... Hmm... Depends. You can either use helpful websites or if you want to go the book route then I'd imagine so long as you follow some sort of broad guideline you should be fine.
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I'm gonna learn how to drive.
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Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

I'm gonna learn how to drive.
lol.
 
I'm one of those weird teenagers who hasn't really had the most motivation to drive. Wink
 
I could have had my license by now... but I don't. With my college, public transportation via a bus route is completely free. And with gas prices the way they are, car insurance, somehow getting a car, and all of that... add in the fact that I never had a particular driving want (okay, bad pun) to start learning how to drive anyway... That's why I haven't yet. I probably will soon enough, however.
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Srsly though, i just found trying to learn any foreign language just too hard. It just never clicked with me for some reason.
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Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

I need to study again... I hate studying but at least it's kind of fruitful.

I want to learn Latin... I'm not sure of the best way to go about it though.
 
Sometimes I like studying, sometimes it's not as fun. Depends on the subject and the circumstances of my life at the time.
 
I took Latin all of my four years of high school, so I still remember a good amount. If you're going to teach yourself though... Hmm... Depends. You can either use helpful websites or if you want to go the book route then I'd imagine so long as you follow some sort of broad guideline you should be fine.


I wish I'd done Latin... I mean, there's no use for it in any work I'll likely do but I just want to learn it 'cause it's a little bit RIO.  Besides, I hear it really helps your English too and as I want to become a writer in the future, Latin may prove to be really useful to me.

It's just my recall is crap and so is my concentration.  I was reading some stuff about basic Latin the other day and I've forgotten it already.  The same with the French I was brushing up on the other day as well.
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Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Srsly though, i just found trying to learn any foreign language just too hard. It just never clicked with me for some reason.
 
I know what you mean there. I saw quite a large amount of people struggling with Latin (especially if they decided on AP 3 and 4) at my high school... and most of those people even had some sort of intelligence, since I went to a more exclusive private high school. Our teacher was hard too, so that definitely had some part in it I would imagine.
 
Latin came pretty easily to me though. I don't really have a photographic memory as I still have to study for things usually quite a bit... but I do remember well through pictures. I would create charts to memorize the conjugations, vocabulary, and declensions. It worked quite well for me. But everyone has their own method of learning, and some things come easier to others. Of course.
 
Latin wasn't my strongest subject though. I'm going to be an Accountant for a reason. Wink
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It seemed odd, because I have slightly above average intelligence and short term memory too, but I seriously found foreign languages exceedingly difficult to take in. I could try for hours and hours, it just never sank in well.
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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/lesson01/default.htm

Big%20smile

I guess I need to focus more and write stuff down...

I also want to start drawing again, 'cause I can sketch satisfactorily and I want to try and improve.
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2008 at 09:35
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by MovingPictures07 MovingPictures07 wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

I need to study again... I hate studying but at least it's kind of fruitful.

I want to learn Latin... I'm not sure of the best way to go about it though.
 
Sometimes I like studying, sometimes it's not as fun. Depends on the subject and the circumstances of my life at the time.
 
I took Latin all of my four years of high school, so I still remember a good amount. If you're going to teach yourself though... Hmm... Depends. You can either use helpful websites or if you want to go the book route then I'd imagine so long as you follow some sort of broad guideline you should be fine.


I wish I'd done Latin... I mean, there's no use for it in any work I'll likely do but I just want to learn it 'cause it's a little bit RIO.  Besides, I hear it really helps your English too and as I want to become a writer in the future, Latin may prove to be really useful to me.

It's just my recall is crap and so is my concentration.  I was reading some stuff about basic Latin the other day and I've forgotten it already.  The same with the French I was brushing up on the other day as well.
 
Yeah, that's understandable. I took Latin because it seemed very interesting and because it extremely helped my vocabulary. Though, I wasn't sure if it would do that until two years or so. Most of the time if you throw a decently obscure English word at me, I can try to figure it out based on a Latin root. It's helped quite a bit, and Latin additionally helps with commonly used English mannerisms like sequence of tenses, etc.
 
If you learn well somewhat multitasking, try listening to music while reading the book. Just make sure you read the same section a couple times; then without music try quizzing yourself later. It should work better that way, I'd imagine.
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Points: 25210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2008 at 09:37
Times like this you want to be Itsy.
The dude has a massive IQ.
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Listening to music distracts me from most things, to be fair.  I should listen to really boring music whilst reading, I guess... maybe I'll listen to some Rush or something, whilst trying to read. LOL
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Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

It seemed odd, because I have slightly above average intelligence and short term memory too, but I seriously found foreign languages exceedingly difficult to take in. I could try for hours and hours, it just never sank in well.
 
You probably were either not interested enough in them or approaching your memorization/study habits in a manner that didn't maximize your absorption of the particular material... or even both. Sometimes when I'm studying, silence is my biggest enemy, so I might turn on some music. Not always, and not too often when I'm doing math or anything like that, and I'd have to go over the material a little bit more as well... but sometimes it proved to be helpful.
 
Another thing (this is for James as well) that proved to help me was writing out charts. Not only just seeing how conjugations for Latin were set up in the book, for example, but writing them out at least once. Once you get the basic concepts down (how verbs conjugate, how nouns decline, etc.), then translating is just a matter of putting a puzzle together.
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