Learning English

[no one 0]

Hi Em,

Hope you had a great labo(u)r day weekend celebrating it with your in-laws. I'm sure it must have been quite the joyous celerbation with all that food for your Mother-In-Law's birthday!

Lol...You're right, going to Canada (especially T.O.) on Labo(u)r Day is insane. Believe me, my husband and I will never ever do that again (or go to Canada again for a very very long time). Why I went is because of a family reason. I would have definately picked another day to go, and not have gotten stuck in traffic. But the person on the other end in Canada was way too stubborn-minded to realize just how chaotic it gets traffic-wise during long-holiday weekends, even though I tried reasoning with them, knowing perfectly well of the traffic conditions ahead of time. Sigh, I shouldn't have given in about that date, but that's ok that I was nice about giving in. Oh well, I'm done with that person, and I'm done with Canada, so on that note, it was a Happy Labo(u)r Day for me. A final farewell to Canada...

Oh ok, thanks for telling me about the Chinese reader. For years and years, no matter what computer I used, I still kept on seeing those odd-looking blank squares when others typed in Chinese, or some Chinese-related font. I don't know which part of the installation CD that is in (I'm using Windows XP), but that doesn't matter anyway, as again, I wouldn't know how to read Chinese even if I was starring at it in front of me on my computer screen.

Thanks for telling me about the French accents too. It makes sense that the accents would be French, as it is a language with all those accents in it (lol..I think there were different names for the accents, or something like that, that was mentioned in French class). I'll have to try that suggestion sometime, especially if there are some words in the English language, such as Fiancee (a French word that is also found in the English language, maybe because French and English have the same roots and thus share common words) that have accents on them.

Ant

A final farewell to Canada? Surely you don't really mean that! The Jasper region in Alberta's worth visiting, and I still need to visit our mutual friend R. in B.C. ... plus, I'd love to visit the North.

You're quite right -- there are names for the different accents:

é Acute

ç Cedilla

â Circumflex

è Grave

ñ Tilde

ü Umlaut/Diaeresis

There are others, but I don't know their names...

Just sent you a long email, btw!

[antda 13]

Hi Em,

Well....as for Canada (especially Toronto), it's a farewell for now. I agree though, that the Provincial/National Parks in Canada, and R in B.C. is worth visiting, so who knows, maybe my family and I will visit north of the border someday many years down the future (though that won't be for a long time especially since it costs quite a bit to get up there, and now with the US passport requirements it's not worth it). Meanwhile, there is so much here in the USA that we have yet to see....

That's interesting to learn about those accents again. Thanks for that "refresher French lesson". It reminds me back to our old French class days. Lol...Remember DrMrsVandertramp and the Je suis/Tu es/Ill est/Elle est/Nous sommes/Vous etes/Ills ont/Elles ont conjugations too? You've certainly been keeping up with your French over the years, Em, wow!

I'll check my e-mail and see what you wrote and reply accordingly by e-mail....

Have fun surfing on the VJ website...

Ant

A final farewell to Canada? Surely you don't really mean that! The Jasper region in Alberta's worth visiting, and I still need to visit our mutual friend R. in B.C. ... plus, I'd love to visit the North.

You're quite right -- there are names for the different accents:

é Acute

ç Cedilla

â Circumflex

è Grave

ñ Tilde

ü Umlaut/Diaeresis

There are others, but I don't know their names...

Just sent you a long email, btw!

Edited September 17, 2007 by AntandD

[yemmie 0]

Hi everyone. My fiancee got here last week and she is liking it here very much. She does want to further her English. She can speak English and I can understand her and she can understand me and all, but its hard for herto talk to other people who can't understand her. She wants to get a program for the computer that can help her. The one that came to mind was Rosetta Stone, but when I read the reviews on it, it says it teaches "basic" English. Has anyone had any good fortune with any other programs that we could try?

She is from China, if that makes a difference as to which rogram is best. Thanks again!

We're looking at www.auralog.com

They have a free trial. Looks pretty cool.