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Reply 3080

thatitootoo

Original post by L'Evil Fish

It's not that time consuming :lol:

plus I want to start tennis and an instrument, probably won't happen... :frown:

What about that singing career you're secretly pursuing?
I HAVE been on your soundcloud account! :wink:

Reply 3081

username976741

Original post by Octopus_Garden

Non. Je veux apprendre le gaélique un jour.

J'ai vu votre réponse et j'ai pensé que j'ai trouvé quelqu'un qui pouvait parler irlandais. :frown:

(is this correct btw?)

Reply 3082

L'Evil Fish

Original post by thatitootoo

What about that singing career you're secretly pursuing?
I HAVE been on your soundcloud account! :wink:

It's not that bad okay? :hand:

Reply 3083

thatitootoo

Original post by L'Evil Fish

It's not that bad okay? :hand:

Très cute! :tongue:

Reply 3084

Octopus_Garden

Original post by Ronove

Oh I see! How ironic. :tongue:

J'adore Monsieur Sick!

Oooh, I need your expert opinion on something. I want to own a Langenscheid Deutsch als Fremdsprache Woerterbuch. As it's a big purchase, I want an up-to-date version, obviously. There aren't any editions that have been just been published. The most recent ones were printed seven to eight years ago. Do you think a new edition is due to be published, or do you think that I'll have to wait five years or something for the next one? I've been googling around, but I haven't found anything yet.

The editions I could find on the UK site: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=langenscheidt%20deutsch%20als%20Fremdsprache

Reply 3085

Octopus_Garden

Original post by aasvogel

J'ai vu votre réponse et j'ai pensé que j'ai trouvé quelqu'un qui pouvait parler irlandais. :frown:

(is this correct btw?)

The grammar? Je ne sais pas. I am very bad at French!

Reply 3086

thatitootoo

Original post by aasvogel

J'ai vu votre réponse et j'ai pensé que j'ai trouvé quelqu'un qui pouvait parler irlandais. :frown:

(is this correct btw?)

Your username literally means ace-bird in Dutch...did you know that? :wink:

(edited 10 years ago)

Reply 3087

L'Evil Fish

Original post by thatitootoo

Très cute! :tongue:

Je ne chantais pas correctement :tongue:

j'avais * fun :wink:

messing around

Reply 3088

username976741

Original post by Octopus_Garden

The grammar? Je ne sais pas. I am very bad at French!

Oui! Oh okay - pas probleme!

Reply 3089

username976741

Original post by thatitootoo

Your username literally means ace-bird in Dutch...did you know that? :wink:

I knew it was an Afrikaans word for vulture! And I knew 'vogel' was bird, but didn't know it was that in Dutch. :tongue:

Reply 3090

Octopus_Garden

It's basically vulture in German too. Literally, it's something like carrion-bird. (The usual word for vulture is Aasgeier.)

Reply 3091

Ronove

Original post by Octopus_Garden

I think I have the Großwörterbuch version - the second one on there. I have no idea when a new one is likely to come out unfortunately. Though luckily I don't think it matters for you in the slightest. There is nothing advanced in these dictionaries, and as far as I know there are very few neologisms as well. It's a dictionary for learners of German, not for natives, so there's no reason for them to put anything fancy or questionable in them. That's probably why there's never any new versions - there are no changes worth making. You should be perfectly fine with a used copy of one of the latest ones you can find. :smile:

Reply 3092

L'Evil Fish

I'm waiting for ronove to tell me I won't be able to :mmm:

Reply 3093

Ronove

Original post by L'Evil Fish

I'm waiting for ronove to tell me I won't be able to :mmm:

You won't be able to what? What have I missed? :tongue:

Reply 3094

L'Evil Fish

Original post by Ronove

You won't be able to what? What have I missed? :tongue:

AS Spanish in Year 12.
AS German in Year 13.

Self taught. Along with my 6 other a levels and welsh bacc, and hopefully tennis :wink:

and other commitments... :h:

Reply 3095

MangoFreak

Would have appeared more often, but I've been exclusively nocturnal recently :mmm:

My days are 9pm-7:30am :awesome:

Reply 3096

Ronove

Original post by L'Evil Fish

AS Spanish in Year 12.
AS German in Year 13.

Self taught. Along with my 6 other a levels and welsh bacc, and hopefully tennis :wink:

and other commitments... :h:

I wouldn't say it was impossible! You'll have to play it by ear though. It also depends what kind of grades you need for what you want to do. If you're thinking of applying for Medicine (I think I vaguely recall you saying it was a possibility?) then it's utterly pointless and you'd be putting your grades too much at risk (not to mention that if you're thinking of Medicine you need to remember that anything with parts taken outside the two A-Level years will not count).

Reply 3097

L'Evil Fish

Original post by Ronove

Medicine? Me? :lol:

if it is it'll be graduate entry... I don't think it'd be my first.

Grades. Worst case scenario is I fail Spanish (and so I wouldn't do German) nothing else would go too wrong.

Yeah, my maths a2 and history AS won't count. But I'll still have them

Reply 3098

Ronove

Original post by MangoFreak

Would have appeared more often, but I've been exclusively nocturnal recently :mmm:

My days are 9pm-7:30am :awesome:

I did my first night shift last night (voluntarily - took it for a friend): 21:30-06:30. For some reason I'm about ready to go to bed now anyway, even though I only got up at 4pm today. I guess cos it was a one-off and wasn't enough to mess with my routine too much. :smile:

Reply 3099

MangoFreak