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Black Cat Godess Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:16 pm
8 hours to read a 600 page book?
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:19 pm
Faster if I really wanted. I could read each page in about 15-20 seconds if I speed read. But that's not enjoyable at all.
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Black Cat Godess Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:21 pm
I guess so. I don't speed read. I can just read a good book really fast.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:26 pm
Hm, well, you both read faster than I do I'm sure.
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Apollyon Marinax Tarimita
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:32 pm
I have to read fast... I prefer subtitles to dubbing... that and for a large portion of my life I took to reading everything I could get my hands on. I'm much more fussy now, i can't read a book if it's badly written, no matter how interesting the story. Similarly, i can read a boring story if it's well written. Most interesting of all is the news tho. I love the news, but not when it's about stupid meaningless things like celebrities or sport.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:34 pm
I'm sorta the same way, though if it's not too badly written I can get through it. I don't reall care if it's dubbed or subbed. I can read fast for subbed and dubbed i just like to understand what people are saying.
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Black Cat Godess Vice Captain
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Apollyon Marinax Tarimita
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:36 pm
ah, but I'm using subtitles to learn Japanese and Chinese... im trying to learn the three hardest language sin the world at once crying
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:38 pm
Skiaska is bored... I had her watch Invader Zim so that I could have her do something...
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Black Cat Godess Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:41 pm
It's cause they use characters for words, not individual sounds.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:49 pm
I know. Japanese is actually surprisingly easy to speak, my accents even OK, it's just so hard to read and write. I can barely tell the differenc ebetween Katakana, let alone Kanji or Hiragana.
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Apollyon Marinax Tarimita
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:51 pm
Wow, yeah, good luck with that.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:53 pm
I think, though, that I'm gonna devote all my linguistic efforts to Mandarin. Now that mainland china is free to trade as they wish, and is teeming up with russia, as far as economies are concerned, I can see them being a superpower in less than fifteen years. I may well end up working for a chinese company.
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Apollyon Marinax Tarimita
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Black Cat Godess Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:54 pm
I think I'll stick with english...though it'd be cool to learn Japanese.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:57 pm
it would, but I'mm looking past the coolness into the practical. Almost a third of the worlds population lives in china and most of them speak Mandarin. They are free to trade and employ foreigners now, and have huge industrial potential. I'm going to be a chemical engineer which means big industry is big money.
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Apollyon Marinax Tarimita
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Black Cat Godess Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:30 pm
I just want to make things explode. IN FIERY DEATH!!!!!!!
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