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[eponymous_rose]

For those of you who are absolutely obsessed with new and exciting words (as am I!): this game might be of interest. Also: good cause!

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[vkitty.livejournal.com]

I think I may come to love this game. *happy*

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

I've only managed to get up to Vocabulary Level 46 - only 50 levels in all! But, ooh, so addictive.

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

I got up to about 500 words before I realized I really needed to get kicking on my NaNoWriMo.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Ooh, best of luck on NaNo! :)

I'm close enough to the even 10,000 grains of rice that I'm just gonna go for it! Very, very few repeated words so far, which is awesome.

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

I've got about 20,000 words to cover in... 24 hours.

May the gods be merciful! *cries*

Very awesome. I missed a few on words like... "accretion". What is that, anyways? I kind of wish it provided definitions. :(

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Speed-typing it is, then? Hope it goes okay!

Oh, gosh. Most of these words I actually know for terribly geeky reasons (well, that and French Immersion) - I know that an "accretion" process is responsible for a lot of ice-related precipitation, where pieces of ice essentially stick together to make bigger pieces of ice. I'd guess it means to come together, to connect and get bigger?

Dictionary.com says: "an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent." Close enough! :D

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

Oooh, French immersion. Where'd you go?

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Nowhere particularly exciting. ;) It was just offered at a small school in small-town central Alberta, so there you go! Very rewarding experience, though I sure don't get much pratice anymore...

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to decide where to go. I've been known to occasionally get angry and scream "I just have TOO MANY OPTIONS!"

I'd like Spanish immersion (since I wouldn't exactly be starting from scratch) but then again I'd like French immersion so that I can be cool and French-speaking... *nods*

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the too-many-options dilemma. I know it well. Actually, in order to actually pick a degree, I had to let my Mom sign me up for something and agree to just run with it unless I could come up with a good reason not to. And, um, I couldn't. So here I am! (Most uninspiring "what-I-want-to-do-for-a-living" story ever.)

Speaking French? Automatic sign of coolness. *sagenod* But then, Spanish would be extremely fun to learn. And a background in Spanish would, I think, be extremely helpful in learning French as well (lots of my friends transitioned from French Immersion all through school to Spanish in university without much difficulty - should work both ways).

Too many options! Good thing they're all awesome, though.

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

Well, I already know quite a bit of French (and by "quite a bit" I mean I took a summer college class and can now stiltingly speak in the past tense). And for me personally, my background in Spanish did nothing but screw me up. The sounds are just ridiculously different for both having come from the same general Romance language background. But I'm sure if I were thrown into an entirely French environment, I'd catch on soon enough.

But, yeah, French is a cool language to have in your arsenal.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

The sounds are just ridiculously different

This is very true. While I can generally muddle through the general meaning of a text in Spanish (after thirteen years of French Immersion), there's no way I'm gonna try to pronounce it properly. ;)

I've found that French definitely comes in handy up here - I'm hoping to apply to grad school at McGill in Montreal, so that'll definitely be a plus. Also, if I ever want to get promoted at any sort of government job, being bilingual is essential. It's sort of surprising to me that more kids don't wind up in the French Immersion program here...

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

It's the opposite with me. After 15 years of getting along pretty well in Spanish, French is a lost language at the moment. I hope to major in it when I get to university, though (all part of my Big Plan to become polylingual. First Spanish, then French, then skip straight past Italian and move onto the Middle Eastern languages... :D )

But, yes. Decisions, decisions.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Polylinguism is an absolutely amazing thing to aspire towards! I'd love to be able to speak a wide variety of strange and little-known languages. So far? Only really fluent in French and English, with some conversational Japanese and pointless phrases in German. ;)

If I had a billion dollars, I'd come back to school and take a ton of courses in languages. Heck, I'd take a ton of courses in everything. :D

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

It's going to be tough, though, since I have a history of ignoring my homework in language classes. :(

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes things tougher. I always had a tendency to ignore language-related homework, too (mostly because I had so much trouble with math and science that I had to take extra time for studying those). But languages sort of came easily, which was extremely lucky for me.

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

On a completely unrelated note: I'm watching Grindhouse: Planet Terror for the first time and... I have not one clue what is going on. I can see that this is one of those movies I'll have to follow along on the Wikipedia with...

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to watch that, actually! Big Tarantino fan. But I tend to get easily confused by movies (my brain completely exploded when I tried to make sense of "Mulholland Drive").

Hooray for Wikipedia!

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

Well, I liked Sin City and I liked 300 so I figured there was some sort of connection - I must like Robert Rodriguez films.

But after seeing the first five minutes of this... maybe not.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't seen either Sin City or 300 yet (bad me, no cookie, etc.), but I suspect I'll really like them.

I might just pass on this one, though. ;)