Ever feel old?

by "enormous" you probably mean the 5" disks. Do you remember the 8" ones?

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I didn't even know there had been anything in between tapes and 5" disks. And I'm your elder.

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My dad had a TRS80 and an ADAM, so I remember the cassette tapes well. Ah, memories!

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Press Play and Enter.

The very first English sentence I read in my life.

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I wish I could remember the first sentence I read in my life, I'm kind of curious to what it was.

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I'm not a native speaker of English, so it wasn't my first sentence per se.

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My native language is English, so what would have been your first sentence in English would be just my first sentence in general :P

Out of curiosity, what is your native language?

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German, I'd say. Although the first language I spoke was Polish. But yeah, I've been speaking German since I was three and it's by far my best language.

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I've tried learning other languages, but it's just difficult. I think I'd have an easier time if I had someone helping me, as reading books and using those programs just doesn't really work, for me.

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I've lost count of how many languages I've studied. I find language fascinating.
I would say that Mandarin is the language I'm strongest in other than English.

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0_0

Wow, I accidentally started out typing =_= cause = is on the same key as 0 on German keyboards. Lol, how politically incorrect.

Anyways, wow. Yeah, now your nickname makes sense.

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That's the name given to me by my Chinese professor back in college. My family name is 'ou' which is the same character as the name for Europe. I've text chatted in Mandarin and they realized that I was not a native speaker, not because of my proficiency, but because of my family name... lol

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Neh, you can't substitute actual real-world talking practice. Also, starting out with two languages helps learn the third. And then a fourth language is too much and starts overwriting the other ones, in my experience. :)

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Honestly, I mostly just want to learn Japanese cause there's an endless amount of Anime, Manga, Novels, Games, etc that I want to read/play/watch from Japan that were never translated to English.

A very nerdy reason yes, but it's my reason nonetheless :P

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It's actually quite typical. There's been such a huge influx of people starting to study Japanese in the last couple of years. And most people learning Swedish at universities over here do it cause they're into Swedish Death Metal and such.

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Are you from Sweden? You mentioned Polish, and German. Do you speak Swedish too?

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No, I don't, lol. My mom lives there, but otherwise I have nothing to do with Sweden. I have a lot to do with metal, though, so that's that.

So I was born in Poland (obviously). My family escaped socialism, by fleeing to Germany, when I was one and that's where I still live.
I had six years of French at school but that's mostly been overwritten by Russian which I studied (close to Polish therefore somewhat easy for me and I always liked the sound of it).
That's all the languages I have ever seriously tried learning, besides English obviously, which was mandatory at school.

My Russian sucks, I'm afraid. I understand a lot, but I can't say much. French is way gone. The other three I'm fluent in, I'd say.

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I try my best to learn it, it's just a pain for the reason I mentioned above.

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Zomby

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And I tough it was to understand all those swedish movies...

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Anway, it's often related to an interest in cultural output from that particular country, rather than liking the language or having any roots there.

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Same reason I can read/write Japanese. However my grammar/vocabulary is fairly limited.

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Zomby

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I learned to write software on a TRS-80... and made a career out of it. (Coding in general, no longer on a TRS-80 of course.)

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That's awesome. I tried coding in Basic on my Commodore Plus/4. I was only six, though, and couldn't even properly write at the time. Not to mention I'd start learning English about five years later.
Obviously I got nowhere with that. :)

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Now that you mention it, there were some 5" ones mixed in, but I was referring to the 8" ones. The 8" ones, and hell, even the 5" ones, were before my time, but I still knew what they were.

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nagleator

There are only 3 members, what a weird group

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I prefer "eccentric"
Also it's brand spankin' new, that's why.

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Yeah, and in my time zone all my friends are currently sleeping, which is why they haven't joined, yet. And that has nothing to do with old people going to bed early, mind you!

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Hmmm...good group? Depends

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You'll get there, too, smartydiapers.

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lol...I'm over 30 already, just thought that picture was funny enough to use here for a small laugh (I hope)

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Sure, sure. Look I can't make a group like that and then reward that kind of joke with smilies, k? Doesn't mean, I didn't secretly enjoy it.

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no problem...this reply is to bump the thread only

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You can't un-see that...

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Haha! Sorry about that, I wasn't expecting it either...our collective eyes are burned for good. -.-

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jurm02

I'm 2 years short :P But I do feel old at times when I mention something that people 8+ years below me don't remember. Other than those times, I just feel like my weirdo self ;)

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Zawazuki

Not at all. I haven't even lifted a fourth of my life yet. (only seventeen) :D

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