What Are You Reading?

Whats ur fav novel? i can't nail it down to just one novel..

Whats the last novel u read? The Old Man and the Sea, more like a novella though

what book are you currently reading? The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles and The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
Whats the most boring book u've ever read? The Old Man and the Sea unfortunately lol

Who's ur fav. author? Nicholas Sparks, Max Lucado, Homer

books made u cry? Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and another book, which right now i can't remember.. but it's a really simple book that talks about how a little boy's parents become Christians (i read it in Chinese, but it was translated from English). the ending was touchy.

Last books purchased? My Name is Asher Lev

What book u're thinking of buying next? something written by Max Lucado, as well as Memoirs of a Geisha.

Reading a Wiki article on the history of Japan. :thumbsup:

im listening to HP: order of the phoenix, does that count as reading? :headscratch:




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There's a transfer student in my communications class who's Japanese. He doesn't speak or understand English very well (ironically this is a public speaking class), and because I'm the only asian in that class, the professor wants me to help him with the course. Wow, that's gonna be a problem since I'm not Japanese and don't speak a word of it. So today I bought and am reading....

Japanese for Dummies
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese

:hehe: :rofl: :mrgreen:

MissMonika wrote:There's a transfer student in my communications class who's Japanese. He doesn't speak or understand English very well (ironically this is a public speaking class), and because I'm the only asian in that class, the professor wants me to help him with the course. Wow, that's gonna be a problem since I'm not Japanese and don't speak a word of it. So today I bought and am reading....

Japanese for Dummies
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese

:hehe: :rofl: :mrgreen:

Maybe I'll get a copy if it works out for you... :beaten:

MissMonika wrote:There's a transfer student in my communications class who's Japanese. He doesn't speak or understand English very well (ironically this is a public speaking class), and because I'm the only asian in that class, the professor wants me to help him with the course. Wow, that's gonna be a problem since I'm not Japanese and don't speak a word of it. So today I bought and am reading....

Japanese for Dummies
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese

:hehe: :rofl: :mrgreen:

that's some fuggin bullshiet...you're not even japanese but because you're asian he wants you to help out the japanese kid? why put the onus solely on you if you're not even japanese?

that's like going to some brown skin who doesn't speak spanish and saying hey you brownie help out the mexican kid in class cuz he doesn't speak english...

let's not perpetuate any stereotypes here ...why no...the fact that all asians are a monolithic group is a fact...

and all latin americans are mexican....

Tu_triky wrote:

that's some fuggin bullshiet...you're not even japanese but because you're asian he wants you to help out the japanese kid? why put the onus solely on you if you're not even japanese?

that's like going to some brown skin who doesn't speak spanish and saying hey you brownie help out the mexican kid in class cuz he doesn't speak english...

let's not perpetuate any stereotypes here ...why no...the fact that all asians are a monolithic group is a fact...

and all latin americans are mexican....

I know! I couldn't believe it myself. I told the guy, "Um, I'm filipino, not Japanese," and he just said, "Well, help him out as best as you can." *Headdesk* I didn't wanna be mean to the transfer kid but I was pretty flippin mad. On the positive side, now I can learn a few Japanese phrases that might be helpful. I dunno how it will but oh well.

Besides reading those, my fun books are...

At First Sight - Nicholas Sparks

I've just started

Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut

MissMonika wrote:

I know! I couldn't believe it myself. I told the guy, "Um, I'm filipino, not Japanese," and he just said, "Well, help him out as best as you can." *Headdesk* I didn't wanna be mean to the transfer kid but I was pretty flippin mad. On the positive side, now I can learn a few Japanese phrases that might be helpful. I dunno how it will but oh well.

Besides reading those, my fun books are...

At First Sight - Nicholas Sparks

well i sincerely admire your graciousness about the whole thing, sincerely :)

i wish you the best of luck :) i'm sure you'll learn a thing or two with the positive attitude and all those dramas under your belt. :)

Just finished up Eric Haney's Inside Delta Force : The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit a few nights ago. I was pleasantly surprised, Haney's writing flowed very well and kept my interest the entire time.

I'll probably get into Clancy's Rainbow Six next.

I finished the first 3 chapters of Japanese for Dummies. It's pretty easy and basic. Everything in this book is in romanji, thank God. I decided to test what I knew yesterday with the trasnfer student. I probably butchered a lot of the words, but I did manage to say "Hi, how are you? My name is..." I brought the book with me in case I forgot something. Only problem was when he replied back, and he was talking really fast, and I couldn't catch most of what he said. :sweat:

MissMonika wrote:I finished the first 3 chapters of Japanese for Dummies. It's pretty easy and basic. Everything in this book is in romanji, thank God. I decided to test what I knew yesterday with the trasnfer student. I probably butchered a lot of the words, but I did manage to say "Hi, how are you? My name is..." I brought the book with me in case I forgot something. Only problem was when he replied back, and he was talking really fast, and I couldn't catch most of what he said. :sweat:

The book must've worked: He thought you were fluent enough to start rattling away at full speed. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
The book must've worked: He thought you were fluent enough to start rattling away at full speed. :hehe:

Lol. It was crazy because he kept going and I was like, "Uhhh..." :nut:I caught some words like "what" and "like" but I was totally lost. Eventually I had to stop him and say something like I don't speak fluent Japanese, I'm still learning. Or at least I hope I said that right. I could totally tell my accent was way off, though.

MissMonika wrote:Lol. It was crazy because he kept going and I was like, "Uhhh..." :nut:I caught some words like "what" and "like" but I was totally lost. Eventually I had to stop him and say something like I don't speak fluent Japanese, I'm still learning. Or at least I hope I said that right. I could totally tell my accent was way off, though.

Maybe you shoulda started talking fast in Tagalog and see how he would've responded... :hehe:

Gomen, I'm a goof. :beaten: :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
Maybe you shoulda started talking fast in Tagalog and see how he would've responded... :hehe:

Gomen, I'm a goof. :beaten: :hehe:

Hahaha! Nah, it's all good. That's hilarious! I should've done that, and he probably would've had the same expression :shocked: I had when he went off talking at full light speed.

MissMonika wrote:Hahaha! Nah, it's all good. That's hilarious! I should've done that, and he probably would've had the same expression :shocked: I had when he went off talking at full light speed.

Imagine everyone in the classroom staring with their mouths open at you two, both talking two totally different languages... :rofl: :hehe:

what happened to the first page? i thought i was the threadstarter? :headscratch: did u guys merge this to somewhere else?

ok probably so. :mrgreen:

^^ odd. it does say that you are threadstarter but you're not on the first page...

:headscratch:

littlemissfab wrote:^^ odd. it does say that you are threadstarter but you're not on the first page...

:headscratch:

Not odd at all. Don't you realize this is the Twilight Zone?? Or Bizarro World?

hehe its coo, i see it in the 2nd page, i think they did merge it :rolleyes: