Kids/Teens Book Club discussion

Hallo people!, I'm Geneva I live in the UK, I love vampires and anime, I love to read but like Girija my school take away all my free time with their oh so many homeworks ^o^

Hi Geneva! I love the Japanese in your name. Japanese is a cool language.

Yosh I agree:) I'm very slowly learning the language it's quite intresting :P

Really?! How are you learning it?

I started taking lessons in school, and I teach a bit to myself sometimes :)

Ach, my school doesn't teach Japanese. :P

What are you using to teach yourself?

Chandloski...knows where the wild things are wrote: "I want to use Rosetta Stone to learn to speak French. They don't offer French 1 at my school, just French 2 :("

that's so weird!! how do you get to french 2 without french 1?? silly schools!

That doesn't make much sense. :P

And I've never heard of conjugamos. I'll look it up.

I'll look it up.

Tay wrote: "Paramore. It's an awesome band. LOL"

Booklover23 wrote: "Hey all.
Im booklover from Australia (Which part, Rachel?)
I started this group. Im in 8th grade, and i love reading and writing and drawing.
Have fun in this group!"

I live in New South Wales, just outside Sydney :)
And i LOVE PARAMORE. They're my fave band and i loved them BEFORE Twilight =)

Hi everyone!! I like Paramore too, but not a fan :) I just know them as a band

Paramore is cool, im not a huge huge fan but i like most of their music ;)

wait so how does a school teach french 2 without french 1?!?!?!?!? school is just evvvvvvvvviiiiiiill...(most of the time anywayss)

Lol that's what I said

Rachel (aka. Kaiserin Sisi) wrote: "Hi Kacey! I love languages so much! Which ones do you like?

Hi Giraja, I love your name! I have the same problem with homework. It's so annoying!

Welcome to the group, guys!


Amelia, yo..."

hey, well at the moment i'm taking french, Arikaans (umm its sort of like dutch)and a Latin course. an of coarse english (my fav. subject.) So i guess i like all those but would love to learn more..becuase i find it really fascinating. And you?

Rachel (aka. Kaiserin Sisi) wrote: "Ach, my school doesn't teach Japanese. :P

What are you using to teach yourself?"

to teach myself, I'm like using random websites, watching lots of anime and reading lots of manga (it kinda fails) XD

Kacey, I love Dutch! How does Afrikaans compare to it?

I'm learning Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, and I just started Dutch yesterday. :D And apparently, my German is not as good as I thought. :P

Geneva, that's kind of what I'm doing for everything but Spanish, expect instead of anime/manga, I use foreign musicals.

Hi, I'm Pandy (Amelia invited me too). I think it's great that you guys are learning foreign languages. I'm only taking Spanish at school, but I can't seem to get interested in it. It's my least favorite subject, along with, oddly enough for someone who loves to read, English. Anyway, some of my favorite authors are J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Philip Pullman, Jonathan Stroud, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens and I'm from around Phoenix, AZ.

Hi Pandy! Welcome to the group!

Languages are just something that interest me a lot. Everyone has different interests. And I get what you mean about English class. I'm a bookworm who doesn't like English class also. :P

Amelia, you deserve a medal or something.

Thanks, Rachel!

You're welcome. ;)

Ahhh, that makes more sense...a little bit...I guess. It's still stupid, though.

Rachel (aka. Kaiserin Sisi) wrote: "Hi Pandy! Welcome to the group!

Languages are just something that interest me a lot. Everyone has different interests. And I get what you mean about English class. I'm a bookworm who doesn't..."

lol :D

hey rachel, are you teaching yourself? do you use rosetta stone or something? cause i want to do whatever it is that you're doing :DD
in school, we learned hebrew greek and a little latin. now in college im doing hebrew and i wanted to take german but it would mess up my graduation plans

I only learn Spanish at school, bbut im trilingual because i speak another language at home. i think languages are cool, and i also think its AWESOME that you're learning so many!it sounds kinda cheesy,but its always struck me as amazing to be able to say the same thing in different ways!

I;m a bookworm that only likes english when i have a good teacher and otherwise well.... i sleep with my eyes open.

Amelia deserves a trophy for inviting the most people. :D

Ha ha, I can swear quite well in Italian, although I don't know much else. XD

Yeah, I only learn Spanish in school, like Girija.

And I translate musicals. It works pretty well, although it's really, really difficult at first. I'm also planning on getting a book from the Borders nearby for excercises, vocab, and just for a more formal lesson style.

Rachel (aka. Kaiserin Sisi) wrote: "Kacey, I love Dutch! How does Afrikaans compare to it?

I'm learning Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, and I just started Dutch yesterday. :D And apparently, my German is not as good as I th..."

Well Afrikaans is derived from dutch so there are many similarities like "Wat is jou naam?" (afrikaans) and "Wat is jouw naam?" (dutch). The word "Afrikaans" actually means "african", in the general sense, in dutch. In afrikaans though some of the lettres have been dropped and it is spelt more phonetically, so it would be pronounced the same as the dutch version, but spelt differently. 'n Man loop daar' (A)and "een man loopt daar" (d) with "een" being pronounced the same.

I love it that this sentence is exactly the same in english and afrikaans (being pronounced differently but still spelt and meaning the same=D)"My hand is in warm water." which is close to the dutch "Mijn hand is in warm water"

So ja, thats how they correspond =D but beyond that i can't say because i don't do dutch.

Greetings in Latin =D

Salvete!Praenomen mihi est Kacey.
(hello! My name is Kacey.)

Quid est praenomen tibi?
(What is your name?)

Ut Vales?
(How are you?)

-bene valeo, Gratias ago!
(I'm well, thanks)

Vale!
(good-bye!)

Latin is such a dignified language :))) everyone should speak Latin!!

Hey, I'm Shelby I'm in the 7th grade and I'm OBSESSED with the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series AND Logan Lerman.
And since you guys were talking about languages:
Bonjour! Je m'appelle Shelby et j'ai douze ans. J'adore lire, dormir, regarder le tele, et jouer au volley. Je deteste jouer football americaine, mais j'adore le foot.

...
showoff!

Kacey, thanks for the examples!

And welcome to the group, Shelby!

French is fun, although I'm not a fan of the nasals. It's still a nice language, though. It has a very nice flow.

Rachel (aka. Kaiserin Sisi) wrote: "Kacey, thanks for the examples!

And welcome to the group, Shelby!

French is fun, although I'm not a fan of the nasals. It's still a nice language, though. It has a very nice flow."

yeah its REALLY hard to pronounce sometimes... I'm not good at it AT ALL

Amelia*annabeth&percy*sittin in a tree* wrote: "...
showoff! "
:P teehee

Hello Shelby! Enchante, J'ai quinze ans, j'aime lire et dormir aussi.

OMG... welll im not sure i reeaally want the script... it might make me not want to go to the movie and so far i reaalyy want to go!! aaacckk its a hard decision...

Hi Shelby! (I actually didn't know that was your name, not to sound creeeper-like or anything):D

Hi Shelby ^o^
Zomg I could actually understand that and I'm like failing French XD

Chandloski...knows where the wild things are wrote: "Hi Shelby!

Oh my Gods you guys, the Percy Jackson script is online. You want me to post the link?"

YEESSSS!!!

Thank you!

Chandloski...knows where the wild things are wrote: "Hi Shelby!

Oh my Gods you guys, the Percy Jackson script is online. You want me to post the link?"

Oh sorry I didn't see that you asked me if I wanted the link

Kacey Rai wrote: "Hello Shelby! Enchante, J'ai quinze ans, j'aime lire et dormir aussi. "
Hyper Cool!

they've got the script? how is that not illegal?!?! those things are supposed to be HEAVILY guarded...
i bet this is like a 1st or 2nd draft.

Eh, scripts get leaked early all the time.

ALL THE TIME.

but my question was...isnt that ILLEGAL

Amelia*annabeth&percy*sittin in a tree* wrote: "but my question was...isnt that ILLEGAL "

I'm not sure. If it is illegal, it isn't something that people get in trouble for.

Amelia*annabeth&percy*sittin in a tree* wrote: "they've got the script? how is that not illegal?!?! those things are supposed to be HEAVILY guarded...
i bet this is like a 1st or 2nd draft. "

thats what i was thinking
its probably just a draft

AND i read it and it BETTER NOT BE THE REAL SCRIPT.
otherwise the scriptwriters MAY find some crazy fangirl in their houses at night....

Whether it's legal or not depends on who posted the French script, and whether or not they had permission to post it. If the person who posted it didn't have direct permission from the author, then it is illegal.

But, like Chandloski said, the first 20 minutes of the script isn't really going to hurt them financially, and it would cost them money to prosecute any copyright infringements, so they would just find it easier to ignore it.

I wonder what would happen if all of us angry fans formed an angry mob outside the homes of the people who worked on it...

Hehehe we should make a plan.
Okay, so all of us get together at the house and slowly sneak in one by one...

Would everyone upset by this fit into their house, though?

lol, im not saying you'd get in trouble, chandler :DD
it's like one of many "laws" that like are impossible to enforce. i just feel bad for the production companies and distributors. if i was a part of the production team, id want things guarded. poor hollyweird!

It's like it being illegal to burn a copy of a song for a friend. No one would ever know.

yeah, but still...lol i like rules. im hardcore like dat ;]

I find some rules quite funny, especially the completely uninforcable ones. And the ridiculous ones.