Milestone!

[pne]

Passed my first milestone (20 points)! Whee!

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should get an LJ for her

Believe me, I've been trying to do that for weeks :)

I think her main objections are (a) "I don't speak English" [though some write their journals in German, Russian, or whatever] and (b) "I don't want to post my thoughts for just everyone to read". I tell her she doesn't need to post but I think she doesn't see the point.

On the other hand, neither did I a year ago, and here I am now, posting nearly every day.

and introduce her to the excitement of support!:D

Of course, not knowing English would be a problem there.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Ahh... I didn't know she didn't speak English - kinda ruins the support idea! Does she only speak German or does she speak another language too (just not English)?

[pne.livejournal.com]

She only speaks German. (And is taking English at school, but rather unsuccessfully; on a scale from 1 to 6 where 1 is the best, 5 is usually a good test result for her.)

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

English is a ridiculously over-complicated language in many respects - I often wonder how anyone learns it (this is possibly why so many English people speak it so poorly). I've tried to learn various languages (French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Norwegian). I start off okay (I'm particularly good at accents, I'm told), but then I start to struggle. Not having anyone to practice with is partially the problem, I think, and also perhaps trying to learn too many things at once. When I finish Uni in a few months or so, I'm going to have a go at this free "teach yourself Esperanto" thing that I found on the Internet - it's supposed to be one of the easiest languages to learn, so it should suit me!:P

Esperanto

[pne.livejournal.com]

When I finish Uni in a few months or so, I'm going to have a go at this free "teach yourself Esperanto" thing that I found on the Internet - it's supposed to be one of the easiest languages to learn, so it should suit me!:P

You could talk to n_true about it; he's interested in languages, too, and started learning Esperanto from a free (online?) course as well... he's even IMed with people in Esperanto. Or amuzulo, who has Esperanto as one of his major languages.

Or consider learning Lojban :) See http://www.livejournal.com/users/n_true/157440.html?thread=547328#t547328 for a list of links I picked out for n_true.