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Although I reserve the right not to add you.
So no offence. =]

Fark, I should be in bed, I didn't realise the time! Crikey O'Riley, Batman, we have to get up at 7.30 tomorrow! \D:/


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http://www.geekologie.com/2008/04/23/spiderman-tat-1.jpg

Every time I see this tattoo, I can't help but stare in wonder at it. I don't think it matters if you're a fan of Spiderman or not; or if you like tattoos or not - that is a stunning piece of work, and the artist who did it is an utter genius (and probably American, otherwise I'd be all over him to do my tattoos already!).

Well, this is embarrassing, and I like to think it's partly the fault of the education system in the UK (at least where I live).

I only speak English.

I started getting taught French and German when I started secondary school (so, about 12). By then I think it's almost too late, unless you've got a natural flair for it, or you were lucky to have gone to a primary school where they took time to teach more than "bonjour" and "Guten Tag". Which I've most likely got wrong. >.< For shame.

While I was at college studying childcare, I learned that speech and language patterns are pretty much 'set' when you hit puberty. But if you're learning a second (or third, etc) language, as long as you get the grammar down by that age, the rest of the language is fairly easy to pick up.

Maybe my language patterns were set early though, because I really, really struggled with French and German at school - especially the grammar side.

It's embarrassing, because the attitude of this country seems to be "it doesn't matter, the rest of Europe speak English anyway!". I mean, come on - you've got Brits moving to Spain who don't bother learning Spanish because there are enough people there who speak English. To me, that's just downright rude and ignorant. You want foreigners to speak English when they're in the UK, you should do the same if you live abroad!

It's also embarrassing because there are so many children across Europe (and the rest of the world) who start learning foreign languages when they're very young - 8 or younger from what I gather.


I wish I could speak a couple of other languages, but hey, I don't think it's going to happen now (I - or they, my teachers - should have started the ball rolling say, oooh, twenty years ago??).

However, I can say "hi, my name is, thank you, good bye" or some combination thereof in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Finnish. I can also swear in Finnish.

But that's the extent of my abilities. Not enough.

This song is hilarious. Does anyone have an audio rip of it? I heard it on Youtube (look it up if you want, it's really funny), but I'd like a download of it; itunes doesn't have it.

Reminds me of the Offspring's prison song ("When You're in Prison"). Anyone got any other humourous prison tunes? >:]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/01/coraline-children-scary-movie


Interesting article, RT by Neil Gaiman on Twitter earlier. =]

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I've just gone and locked down most of my entries. The majority are now private - old news doesn't need re-read - and the more recent ones will be f-locked or filtered.

I'm just going to make a pretty picture/awesome graphic/blah banner to slap at the top of my journal. I'm doing the old "friend's only" thing.