Ryo 73 Report post Posted January 23, 2016 Oi :V You sure can. === I wonder if I could ever attain my goal. Wait, are you back now? Wondering how many books I'll be able to finish this year. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Metantei Kiddo 147 Report post Posted January 24, 2016 Wait, are you back now? Wondering how many books I'll be able to finish this year. Nah. I'll still be going. If you read what I wrote in WoyM thread fully, I said I'll be staying till the end of this week which is today. === I wonder if I could meet the requirements so that I could join the event thing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machine 52 Report post Posted January 25, 2016 I wonder when physical keyboards will become obsolete Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akazora 293 Report post Posted January 25, 2016 Hm... wondering when you'll be back...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kid the Phantom Thief 252 Report post Posted January 28, 2016 Oi :V You sure can. === I wonder if I could ever attain my goal. lol Thanks q: Same goes for you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machine 52 Report post Posted February 11, 2016 I wonder what this coming summer will be like... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kid the Phantom Thief 252 Report post Posted February 12, 2016 I wonder if Deadpool will be a good watch. I wonder what this coming summer will be like... Hot I hope!! Everything that winter is not. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kirsch 95 Report post Posted May 11, 2016 I wonder who had the brilliant idea to pit Captain America against Iron Man. I mean Come on We all know Iron Man >>>>>>>> the captain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Metantei Kiddo 147 Report post Posted June 1, 2016 I wonder if some people could actually sense when their death is imminent or if their loved one's death is imminent. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kirsch 95 Report post Posted June 1, 2016 I wonder how non-bilingual people learning a second language perceive the concept of "being bilingual". Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machine 52 Report post Posted June 4, 2016 I wonder how the Olympics will go this year considering all that's happened On 6/1/2016 at 4:00 PM, Kirsch said: I wonder how non-bilingual people learning a second language perceive the concept of "being bilingual". Do you mean at what point someone who's only fluent their native language would consider themselves bilingual or almost bilingual? Though I can't speak for everyone, I'd consider myself, and anyone learning an additional language, to be bilingual once they were at a conversational level in terms of both speaking and reading/writing. Fluency sounds very difficult to attain unless one's in an environment where they're frequently exposed to the language they're learning, and are able to practice it regularly, and since not everyone is in such a position, it seems a bit unfair to automatically discredit or undermine all the work someone's put into learning another language, just because they can't quite reach fluency. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kirsch 95 Report post Posted June 5, 2016 23 hours ago, machine said: I wonder how the Olympics will go this year considering all that's happened Do you mean at what point someone who's only fluent their native language would consider themselves bilingual or almost bilingual? Though I can't speak for everyone, I'd consider myself, and anyone learning an additional language, to be bilingual once they were at a conversational level in terms of both speaking and reading/writing. Fluency sounds very difficult to attain unless one's in an environment where they're frequently exposed to the language they're learning, and are able to practice it regularly, and since not everyone is in such a position, it seems a bit unfair to automatically discredit or undermine all the work someone's put into learning another language, just because they can't quite reach fluency. Sorry if I came off like that, but discrediting people's efforts wasn't my intention. I'd been looking into SAT subject tests for both Chinese and Spanish, and it struck me that the distance I still had to go with Spanish was far greater than I'd thought. Comparing the thought process I have for the two languages really put that into perspective, and my post was written to reflect a "what-if" scenario where I didn't have Chinese as a marker for "fluency". Being bilingual has always been a prevailing factor in my life because my internal "voice" "speaks" (yay tons of quotation marks) in both languages. English may be my primary language now, but there was a period in my life when I could actually feel the "voice" shift from being Mandarin-centric to English-centric, and as a small child, it was very hard to adjust. (I'm still very fluent in Chingrish.) Despite being a Spanish student of 6 years (though I didn't really learn much in the first 5), I can't imagine ever having the same problems I do with being a English-Mandarin speaker, and thus, in a sense, that same level of fluency. Perhaps I'll one day be able to communicate in Spanish in a conversational setting, but this sort of proficiency won't have some of the defining traits of bilingualism that I feel with Mandarin. With Mandarin, it's completely without thought, while with Spanish, I'm forced to procure a written form of the audio clip in my head, translate bits and pieces, then rearrange it to better accommodate for my English-orientated mind. It's a long and arduous process, and exactly what I've been telling my parents not to do for all my life, only that it's me who's now struggling to find a more efficient process and realizing there are none. Again, I'm not trying to brush off languages students in the classroom. It's quite the opposite really--I probably understand the laborious efforts too well. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Metantei Kiddo 147 Report post Posted July 11, 2016 You guys have fun. Nah. No. Don't worry about me. It's fine It really is. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ryo 73 Report post Posted July 16, 2016 On 7/11/2016 at 0:25 AM, .MK. said: You guys have fun. Nah. No. Don't worry about me. It's fine It really is. Hopefully more countries start getting official releases soon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Metantei Kiddo 147 Report post Posted July 16, 2016 1 hour ago, Ryo said: Hopefully more countries start getting official releases soon Wait... I posted that post in the WoyM thread. How the heck did that end up here? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
