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The masks started out as a way to keep dust out where I live, back in the 90's most of the raves I went to were outdoor parties in fields and scrub and the like. I never got into the vicks thing, but people quite quickly learned to put some on their mask.
Must teleport to Toronto at once!
Guise help. I need to improve my English listening in the following months, it's pretty important. What am I supposed to do? I struggle with specific accents... it's weird. English is weird and you should feel bad.
Example: I watched Tom Cruise's movie (it's pretty cool BTW) and I understand basically everyone except for this guy
Example: I watched Tom Cruise's movie (it's pretty cool BTW) and I understand basically everyone except for this guy
Necromanti
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At least then you have a good excuse to fall back on.
Like with everything, practice. Practice, practice, and more practice, especially with the specific accents you say you struggle with. What is this for, if you don't mind my asking? I'm wondering if podcasts would be a good idea. Sometimes it's hard to hear what some people are saying in movies without subtitles when the audio isn't mixed well.
Guise help. I need to improve my English listening in the following months, it's pretty important. What am I supposed to do? I struggle with specific accents... it's weird. English is weird and you should feel bad.
Example: I watched Tom Cruise's movie (it's pretty cool BTW) and I understand basically everyone except for this guy
Watch videogame discussions on youtube and don't use subtitles, it will help you if it's about a topic that you know a lot about.
Dead Prince
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Listen to some nprGuise help. I need to improve my English listening in the following months, it's pretty important. What am I supposed to do? I struggle with specific accents... it's weird. English is weird and you should feel bad.
Example: I watched Tom Cruise's movie (it's pretty cool BTW) and I understand basically everyone except for this guy
Guise help. I need to improve my English listening in the following months, it's pretty important. What am I supposed to do? I struggle with specific accents... it's weird. English is weird and you should feel bad.
Example: I watched Tom Cruise's movie (it's pretty cool BTW) and I understand basically everyone except for this guy
Turn the volume louder or watch movies that have irish actors in their cast with subtitles.
Guise help. I need to improve my English listening in the following months, it's pretty important. What am I supposed to do? I struggle with specific accents... it's weird. English is weird and you should feel bad.
Example: I watched Tom Cruise's movie (it's pretty cool BTW) and I understand basically everyone except for this guy
Play games with gaffers that use voice chat.
The One Who Knocks
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Guise help. I need to improve my English listening in the following months, it's pretty important. What am I supposed to do? I struggle with specific accents... it's weird. English is weird and you should feel bad.
Example: I watched Tom Cruise's movie (it's pretty cool BTW) and I understand basically everyone except for this guy
Given that the issue seems to be accents, I would try and watch material with some extremely heavy accents in place of material with the typically accessible accent many people portray in the media for clarity, material where the script is dictated in an understated, more conversational manner, and where the dialogue itself is quite unusual. The first two things that spring to mind are "Trainspotting" and "The Wire". I imagine the former would be far more difficult for you than the latter given your issue with Brendan Gleeson. I'm going to assume that the variety of Irish accents are a challenge for you, so I would also suggest "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (I enjoy this) and "The Field" (an adaption of John B Keane's play which I know Roger Ebert hates, but I find quite enjoyable). I didn't care for the movie at all, but "Adam and Paul" will certainly be a very significant challenge for you. "Once" is a fantastic movie, but the dialogue is pretty clear so I'm not sure if it'd be very suitable. Things like "Father Ted", "Monty Python", "Fawlty Towers" and "Blackadder" may also be suitable. Continuing the theme of television, "Love/Hate" (which also happens to feature Aidan Gillen from "The Wire" and "Game of Thrones") is an Irish television show that was received well here (in Ireland) and while I personally don't care for it, I thought the show "Quirke" was absolutely dreadful, but I think the dialogue could be very challenging for somebody not native to or unfamilliar with the country. I know many do, and that the accents are quite thick with many colloquialisms. Checking what is on RTÉ (http://www.rte.ie/tv/) and watching a few programmes at random may help as they introduce you to a greater range of accents, and if you've an interest in sport any "Hurling" commentary is going to be an extremely difficult and inaccessible test to try your hand at. Listening to some talk show radio emissions (I'm not sure if that's the correct term as I don't listen to the radio much) such as "Liveline" may present a broad range of accents, and more local radio stations (such as "Waterford Today") if you can find them online would also present a greater range; Donegal accents, accents from Connaught, and accents from Cork are what I had the greatest with when doing Irish listening tapes, so I assume there would be a similar degree of difficulty in interpretting individuals from those areas speaking in English for a non-native (?) speaker.
The various versions of Shakespeare's plays (Roman Polanski's Macbeth is particularly good) might be very challenging for you with the Elizabethan English but there is a risk that it may complicate things further so I'm hesitant about suggesting them. Playing games online with voice chat as has been mentioned above is also a very good suggestion as you can expect colloquialisms, slang, and a huge array of accents from around the world, but is going to be more challenging than other areas as you cannot replay what was stated to clear things up (but this may be somewhat useful depending on how you're being tested). Foreign movies where English is spoken is also something to consider.
I know I've focused primarily on Irish accents here (with "The Wire" and "Trainspotting" an exception) which is probably too specific for you (admittedly I don't know how difficult Irish accents are in comparison to other types of accents), but hopefully some of the techniques (scouring local radio stations, movies, locally made TV shows, etc.) to gain additional experience with the accents can be translated to other types that you find difficult and must brush up upon.
Wow, bold move.
(But wait aren't you going to start a job search soon? Or is this just for the summer.)
That's so romantic!
I love purple. Not on my hair usually though, just purple clothing. Post a picture afterwards (if you want to), I am curious to see the result.
Edit: Congrats on the kiss, Ahasversus!
TheAbsolution
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I want to see a picture after it's done.(if you want to)
I love the color purple.
Masquerader
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Dye it purple anyway.
TheAbsolution
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Dye it purple anyways.
Yellow or green, depending on the shade Lucario chooses.
Complimentary colors bruh.
It would be really neat if Lucario only dyed the tips of his hair a moderately subdued shade of purple, so it'd be purple fading into white, while you (assuming you have dark hair), do the same but with a dark green color, so it's green fading into black.
(Shit I'm playing MMO dress-up with my gay e-buds)
Bleach it.
^ lucario is cuter than u
alright, maybe I'll dye it purple anyway! I need to bleach it beforehand, so I'll see if I keep it one way or another. sorry haly, that stuff is 2hard4me
alright, maybe I'll dye it purple anyway! I need to bleach it beforehand, so I'll see if I keep it one way or another. sorry haly, that stuff is 2hard4me
TheAbsolution
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Adorable. I think you will look great with purple hair.
I wish I had long hair that I could but alas I might just have to settle for living vicariously through other people.
TheAbsolution
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TheAbsolution
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I know that.
TheAbsolution
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Just so I'm clear, do you guys live together or something?
yup, we're boyfriends
TheAbsolution
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GAF pretty much lol, then PAX eastAww, how cute.
How did you guys meet?
TheAbsolution
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Thanks for all the suggestions, guys :3 It's just all the wildly different sounds of vowels and mushy consonants what clashes with my Spanish-wired brain, lol. What's the URL for that GAF chat thing?
@Necromanti: It's for a potential job. A job interview has to be rather formal, right? I'm not expecting to be interviewed by a speed-talker with an unusual accent. I hope
@Necromanti: It's for a potential job. A job interview has to be rather formal, right? I'm not expecting to be interviewed by a speed-talker with an unusual accent. I hope
lordfroakie
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Thanks for all the suggestions, guys :3 It's just all the wildly different sounds of vowels and mushy consonants what clashes with my Spanish-wired brain, lol. What's the URL for that GAF chat thing?
@Necromanti: It's for a potential job. A job interview has to be rather formal, right? I'm not expecting to be interviewed by a speed-talker with an unusual accent. I hope
You mean tinychat?
TheAbsolution
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Well I'm off to fill up my own car with gas money that I earned for the very first time. This is awesome!
No wayyyy <3
Dany_M and Mr_F was the other couple, if I'm not misrembering things here.
Right?
Yeah, Acerac and Firehead. Don't know who Dany_M and Mr_F are.
We could be the third one
I'm flattered~
::blushu::
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