WHAT HAPPENED TO AVERY?!?!?!?!
German, Spanish, Korean, Russian, and Portuguese. (Put in the order of activeness on the languages.)
Oh, cool! Like what languages?
I learn languages on Duolingo. That’s all I can think of to say😂😂
Ah okay, that make more sense 😅
Yeah, my best guess from all I know is that maybe either his mom came first and he later, or else he came here, bc his foster parents live here... It's a confusing situation, and I've never gotten to the bottom of it, but yeah 😅
Oh I meant NC, but ohh, okay 😅
Henry, you mean to the US or to NC? If you mean to the US, I think it's mainly bc he wanted to get Bible training at university and then go back to Vietnam as a pastor 😅 Not really sure why he came to NC, tho, unless it was bc he had connections here
I seem to make plenty of mistakes like that 🙃😂
Oh okay 🤔 Know why he chose to immigrate all the way there? 😅
Kunstenaar Avery, how could you have forgotten he's been promoted king?! 😰😆
Oh, wow! 😬😅 That would be difficult! Ok, cool! 🙃
Henry, yes, he actually immigrated to the US almost 2 years ago, I believe 🤔 But he has pretty fluent English 😅 I just spoke in Vietnamese to him for fun 😅
Oh, I just noticed you called me King instead of Sir 😆
Oh, I remember seeing groups where you and her were writing in German
Skip the memorization by learning pinyin for online at least 😂 but you’ll still have to recognize the characters 😅
Yep, you have to not only memorize brush strokes, but there’s also a correct stroke order and direction. I say its more complicated since I’m used to English, but it depends on your memorization abilities and also how much practice you get. I just use the pinyin keyboard so I can type the characters really fast instead of drawing every stroke of ever character, if I can even recall how that is 🙃
Oh wow, is you Vietnamese coworker from Vietnam? 😅
I only know, cause I looked it up to say to a Vietnamese coworker 😅
Henry, I'm curious: do you have to memorize those brush strokes; and if so, is it complicated to remember?
Avery, that's cool! And yes, Chào is Vietnamese 😉 "Chào bạn" is "hello, friend"
Nice! Btw, for Chinese its spelled nǐ haǒ and written as 你好
Yep! 😆 Ooh, what languages are they?! 😃
Oh that’s alright. You get practice using your translator, and mastery requires practices 😁 I’m have a Chinese background, but my Chinese isn’t that good, so you’re fine 🙃
Avery, could I ask where you learned German?
Haha I’m learning German…
Also learned today that all nouns in German are capitalized 🤔
I've learned two new words!
Good morning? Is it that in German?
Or something like that.. 🫤
I know a few words, Helphe fewufwhere actung aintensmatch
@Avery, can you speak German?
Sorry, that wasn’t close at all 😅
Aloha (sorry that’s not Spanish but…… oh well….. close enough…….)
Ahem or should I say ¡Hola!
¡Hola a todos! ¿Puedes entender lo que estoy diciendo? O no.
It means hahahahaha in Spanish
Yep, and the character existed before Christ if I’m recalling correctly
Wow! 😮💨 Deep! That is veeery interesting! 😅 It makes perfect sense, too!
Word of the day: yì 义/義. Meaning: Righteousness. Fun fact: In the traditional script for the word, 義, the upper part ⺷ means “sheep/lamb,” and the bottom part 我 means “I.” It is also interesting to note that in 我, which means “I,” the left side 手 means hand and the right side 戈 means spear. If I just look at the character for the word righteousness as a drawing: the lamb is over I who held the spear? 🤔
Chino con Amigos should be the group name now 😆
Hmm, I think I know how to say it 😏
Or you could put it in google translate to hear how it’s pronounced 😅
knee haow* with the tone emphasis on the “ee” in knee and on the “ao” in haow. You could maybe think of it as singing a note, going down a note, and then going back up to that note, but do it very quickly 😅
You pronounce it as nǐ haǒ (kind of like knee how), but since there’s the 3rd tone mark on the two words, you have you go down in tone and then go back up in tone to where you were before
🤔 and how is that pronounced??
Word of the day: nǐ haǒ 你好. Literal translation: you good. Meaning: Hello, hi.
like how pigwets aw eeeeevil!!!!!!
it’s Canada 🇨🇦 day!! !! !!
it’s Canada 🇨🇦 day eve😉!!!! !!!
hey guys FACT Spanish is a super cool language!!!
Ohh, I think I get it now 🤔😅😆
both that's why it works as a joke
Which one is it in this case? 😅 Bc Google translated it as "any"...🤔
@Liz, when I put it into Google Translate, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense 😂
Dante, yeah, that's true 🤔😄
heres Spanish joke for y'all
Un pez le pregunta a su amigo, “¿Qué hace tu padre?
Nada.
I have looked up the pronunciation for Ardilla.. and uh.. It sounds totally the opposite of what I was thinking.. 😂
Also bc we’re all Christians. 🙂
I like it bc we’re learning, it isn’t “messy” with posts 😂 and, No one comes to interrupt.
I really love this group!!!
Ardilla means "squirrel", and listada means "listed" 🤔😅 Soo..."squirrel listed"? 😆 I guess it's supposed to mean like "a type of squirrel" or something 🤷♂️😂
What do the two means in Ardilla listada mean on their own? 🤔
we that's what I'm doing thatswhy I couldn't say that I heard you guys were studying spanish😂🤣😅
@Liz, ummm...we're SORT OF studying Spanish 😅😆
Henry, yup, it's chipmunk 😂
They all have something to do with chipmunk..
Chipmunk??????? What in the world!!?
¿tú estudias español aquí?
Henry, it's a word that relates to what we've corresponded about today 😏
Word of the day: Ardilla listada 😏 And yes, that is one word 😂
Ok, I know the pronunciation 😝😏
Well, that's basically the only way to find out for sure, so be my guest 😁😂
Jk, I mean it could be 👀👀
Pronunciation.. Is it cheating if I use Google? 😅
But you have to take into consideration the pronunciation, not just the spelling 😏😉
And since that's so easy, we'll do a couple more easy ones 😁: Música....and.... Piano (that one is the easiest one yet 😅😆)
Hmm, I think I have one 🤔😏 This one is too easy, tho 😂: Instrumento
@Dante, wow, that's a lot! 😅 Keep up the good work! 😉
Btw, do we have a word of the day??
@Will, Drums, Jembe, I’m learning the Bass, I’m learning the Piano, Bongos, Octobans , Rototoms and many other percussions..
I would like to learn to do it the traditional way at some point, tho 😁 Piano is my favorite instrument 😄
I play the piano...but the way I play is more like just playing the chords as accompaniment, and not doing all the notes, if that makes sense 😅
I know how to play the piano a little.. I’m still learning .. There are a few other instruments I play.. 😁
I’ve sung in choir a lot but that’s it
So, do you play any other instruments besides the piano, Will?
Ha, no. I’m at the Acadamia Musicale Chigiana
Nice! 😄 Are you going to the University of Bologna, the most prestigious in Italy? 👀 (jk 🤣)
no i don't have an Italian background 😊. I'm studying abroad for the next six weeks
@Henry, ohhhh I thought you were wondering what the difference was between "Si" (without any accent) and "Sí" (with an accent) 😅 Now I get it
@Dante and Haven, that's really interesting. 😄 Both my parents are American, but I have a French Canadian background on my dad's side, and a Scottish and German background on my mom's side 😅
@Will, cool! 😃 Do you have an Italian background?
Well, but you are from America right? you are just visiting, correct?
have you ever eaten focaccia????!!?
Will, you are in Italy??!!?
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, my dad is Italian, so I know some of it.
I looked it up, and sì is yes for Italian 😅
The only thing I don’t go by is Billy 😂
What is the difference between “sí” and “sì”?
¡Hola, Billy! 😁 (Do you ever go by Billy? 🤔😅)
lemme guess “I am stupid” ??
I saw that the feminine form is China, so 😆
For me to fly to Spain it would take 2 hours and 25 mins. To fly to Mexico it would take.... 11 hours and 42 mins 😭😆 Well I might as well take the first class seat (jk)
Here’s a word I remember hearing in Mexico: Chino
And I could DRIVE to Canada in half the time, as well, that it would take me to get to Mexico 😏😂
Lol, it would take me 22 hours to drive there 😅😆 I could fly to Madrid in half that time 🤣
Yeah, I could get there in less then a day 😆
but yeah, wouldn’t want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time 😅
You can just drive to Mexico 😆
Some parts of it are real unsafe. Just depends on where you go there 😅
Oh yeah... I kinda forgot about that..😅 Well I kinda like Spain more than Mexico tho.. based on what I headed Mexico is a really unsafe place..
Oh nice! I can get a cheap and fast ticket to Mexico 😆
And the good thing about being in Europe is that I can get a cheaper ticket to Spain and a faster travel 😆
Maybe it's erase instead of eraser 🤔
Nope, since borrador is eraser, not borrado
Oh yeah, I forgot that barrador was eraser 😅😆
Does it mean dry eraser? 🤔
Nope 😜 Remember what borrador means? 😏
It must mean...."scented marker" 😏
Marker and...whiteboard? 😅
😂 Guess this one: borrado en seco
Lol, I could've guessed that, I just didn't get on here in time 😂
Yep, EXPO marcador is what it says on the box of markers
Ah, I should've guessed 😂
And, no, I didn't use anything but my brain and some good common sense 😏 😜
hint on meaning: EXPO borrador
Dante, hmm, that's weird 🤔
i am going to leave this group but maybe join back sometime in the future. i am leaving because i try to keep my max groups to 6 and right not i have 7.
Whenever I try to select the Juan 1 collection here, it always changes it to English..
And yes, I used Google Translate for that, but I need to learn to first try to at least see if I can read it on my own 😂
He said *clears throat*: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..."😁
En el principio creó Dios los cielos y la tierra...
Haha 😂 Well, yes and no. I do, but I don't think they'd have the time to correct me (if they even caught the mistake over the noise 😅)
So you have fluent speakers to practice with 😂
I hadn't been speaking in Spanish to the cooks at work for a while. So on Tuesday, at the end of the day, when I asked them for something, one of them said, "You no speak Spanish today?" And he said something about "gracias". So I've been picking that back up 😅 But I need to find new phrases to say to them 😂
😂 Lol, I'd say so. I'm learning along with everyone else 😅
Dante, Vera's not exactly the group Spanish teacher or anything 😅 We're more like slowly picking our way thru some random vocab words occasionally 😆
The punctuation in Spanish is so different! 😐😆
I know only one word in Spanish... Salvador meaning Saviour. Also “hola” of course.
ja ja ja, sí, mucha gente habla español. Supongo que Vera es la que enseña español aquí. ¿Tengo razón?
¡Oye, Dante, qué bien! 😁 Estoy deseando aprender español porque puede ser muy útil, ya que es el segundo idioma más hablado en el país. (También usé Google Translate, jajaja 😂)
¡Hola a todos! Realmente me gustaría aprender español ya que me gustaría ir a España algún día (¡Es un lugar hermoso!) ¡Espero poder aprenderlo! Pst: Este es el traductor de Google 😂
Yeah, not quite sure what it is 🤔😆
Rian’s is a little creepy tho 😂
Thanks Haven, I like yours too with Tucker 😊
oh Henry I like your new profile picture😊
yah Vera that is what my parents say
Maybe I'm wrong, but... 🤷♀️😅
Henry, I would probably explain the difference like this: Happiness is temporary and based on circumstances. Joy is longer-lasting and a state of mind that does not depend on what happens
So, it appears that "alegría" means "joy, happiness, cheerfulness, gladness, gaiety, contentment", while "gozo" means "joy, enjoyment", so I guess they have slightly different meanings 🤷♂️
How would someone know which one you’re talking about? 🤔
Well, Algeria actually is also a word for joy 😜
How would you explain the difference?
And there is a difference between joy and happiness 😉
Word of the day: "Alegría"--"Joy" (pronounced â-LĀ-grē-uh)
Your correct, Rian. That is what it means 😂
I do not even know if am right. 😆
I used your hint Roger. we are LEARNING Spanish. btw I did not look it up.
hello join my group called group name
Did you look that up or did you just guess it? 🤔😆
Roger, I hadn't seen what you said 🤦♀️😂
Oh, hang on... that's actually not "to take" 🤔 They both look very similar; that's why I got them mixed up. But I already found out what it means, sooo...😅
Hint: it has to do with what we are doing on this group...
@Henry, we'll get to that after we find out what it means 😏😉
Vera, uhhh no. You got it wrong 😂
@Lizette, you know what I mean 😝
Now how do you say that 👀
👀 I've studied that word before, but I can't remember what it means 🤔🤔 Call? No, no. Take 😁
Umm… “Siri, what does Aprender mean?” 😆
Without using Google Translate 😂
New word of the day is....*drumroll*...Aprender! 😄 And you have to guess what it means 😏
We need a new word that everyone doesn’t know 😂
hola is the word of the day that everyone knows. now let’s wait for the actual word. 😆
What happened to vocab of the day? 👀
Yes, I know what bonjour means
idk what i am talking about!
everybody knows what they mean.
bonjour hola 👋 same thing different languages.
Cómo estás, FightforFreedom?
yah! I didn’t feel normal calling our new dog Tucker because i had already called another dog Tucker! 😆
yah! lol! so we got a dog a long time ago but we had to sell him because he was too… everything! 😆! but before we got him we got a name tag 🏷 that had tucker on it but we sold tucker 1. so we got another dog and we thought tucker was a nice name and we had a name tag that had tucker in it so we named this dog tucker too! 😆 lol sorry for the confusion!!
@Rian, yeah, I remember you telling us about him several months ago 🤔😂
@FightforFreedom, just curious 😅
Oh? 😅 I thought you've had Tucker for a while
hey guys type in on safari or google or any search engine “Liar.com” and see what comes up! 😆
Rian, sorry, I just now saw your pfp. Your puppy is super cute! 😍 What's his name?
Oh, sorry, it probably came out funky, cuz I was using Google Translate 😒😆 Let's see, this might be the correct way to say it: ¿Es usted un niño o una niña?
Lo siento Roger, ¿Cuál fue tu pregunta?
I just used the "La Biblia de las Americas" (LBLA) translation from Bible Gateway 😅 It seemed like a good one to go with
Which translation version do you use for Spanish?
Por cierto, @FightforFreedom, solo curiosidad, ¿eres chico o chica?
Ok, John 1 ha sido agregado 😉
No, it isn't, but most of my family can speak it. Could you add the first chapter of John?
Oh, neat! 😁 Is that yours or your family's mother tongue?
Oh, hehe 😅 That's the problem of not going and checking on Google translate to make sure I know what you said 😂 I'm sorry, I thought you asked if this group was for sharing verses in Spanish. Which verses would you like me to add in Spanish? 😄
?Hay alguna manera de poner versiculos sin ser administrador?
Do you speak Spanish, FighterforFreedom? 😄
Sí, you can if you want 😉
?Este grupo tiene versos en espanol?
What do you think it means to have Jesus at the center of your life??
Simple! It's "ā-VÂNG-hāl-ē-ō" 😅
Ennh...I'll let Vera answer that 😆
Thats what I’m wondering 😅
Nice, but how do you pronounce that? 😅
"I am not ashamed of the EVANGELIO, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." (Rom 1:16)
Ooh, I know that one already! 😃😂
pls join “Jesus at the center” if you want uplifting verses!! Pls join!!!
@Henry, I found this: "Generally, the adjectives placed after the noun have an objective meaning or one that carries little or no emotional content, while one placed before the noun can indicate something about how the speaker feels toward the person or thing being described." Kinda subjective, but whatever 😅😆
Mm, I'd have to check Henry 🤔
What is the rule for sometimes? 🤔
Well in French and, I guess Spanish, too, the adjective sometimes comes after the word 😉
palabra=word, nueva = new
I do not know anything about French so I kind of just go along.😅😂😅
Definitely just one new word a day 😅
That's great, Rian! 😁 So, are you learning French as well?
hey! I am learning Spanish!
Just wait, soon enough you won’t even have to think about it 😂
Oh I forgot the upside down question mark 🤦♂️
One new vocab word a day 😁
😂 Hey, this is Spanish class, so what do you expect? 😆
A veces la palabra del día puede ser "posiblemente" 😏🤣
a veces like now i am laughing!! 😆
Lo siento! I a veces have to cut it short 👋😅
A veces I don't have a lot of time to spend on my phone 😬 Like today
Sometimes! "A veces", in Spanish
The word of the day is...😏
Will anyone be posting a Spanish word of the day? 👀
Join “Jesus at the center”
So inteligente and excelente both have 1 less ‘l’ and an additional ‘e’? 🤔
Oh, whoops, it's brillante 😅😆
Brillianto! 🤣 (I'm gonna see if that's correct, cuz I'm just guessing 😏)
Wow, I guessed it just had an o at the end, and it does 😂
I love the words that are really close to English words 😆
Yeah, that's how you spell it 😂
Is that how you spell it? 🤔😅
yah it is just a hobby and I love it so much!
@Rian, nice! 😄 That's really good for your age! 😉
Wow good job!! That’s fast
I started typing back In 2018 September.
just answering everybody I can type about 55-60 WPM too.
Hey, that's ok, Rian; I forgive you 😉😄 Yeah, I know you're only one person 😂