Getting To Know You

[the sound of Autumn, Oh dear.]

Daaaaamn girl, you're so smart! I want to learn Spanish, German, and at least a little bit of sign-language and Latin. :)

[attempted]

I speak Mandarin Chinese. And no, that doesn't mean I can converse with Mandarin Oranges, which most everybody seems to believe (believe you me, I have tried.).

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

I'm trying to learn italian and latin :) Kenzie, you speak Mandarin?! DANG! That's impressive!

[attempted]

Xièxiè. :)

[the sound of Autumn, Oh dear.]

Ha, that's cool! My step mom speaks Cantonese.

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

hahaha... meow!

[the sound of Autumn, Oh dear.]

OHMAIGAWD SHE'S SPEAKING CAT!!! :O

[Marlene]

I want to learn all those languages!!! I want to so bad. :(
That's also a thing for "getting to know you". my goal in life is to learn as many languages as possible. I know it's difficult, but I'll try. I'll let you know what happened to that agenda in a few years. ;)
...I can read braille and am still working on the sign language.

[Marlene]

My other two favorite words are: Paraskavedekatriaphobie and Friggatriskaidekaphobie.
As I said, once I say them, everybody looks at me as if I'm crazy. It's hilarious. One time relatives from Canada were visiting and they even asked me to write them down. ^^
In an essay? In which context? O.O
And you really had that at school? When I told my English teacher, he didn't even know it.

[Marlene]

You did? Try me. ;)

[Marlene]

Yes?
I am German. ^^

[Marlene]

It's "Und du", alright. "Dir" is only used when you say "that belongs to you/Das gehört dir.
That's the advantage of having a german keybord. Ä - Ö - Ü - ß. :D

Mein Name ist Marlene und ich komme aus Deutschland. Naja, das war klar. Aus einem kleinen Dorf irgendwo im Nirgendwo mit einem schrecklich langen Namen.
Wie lange hattest du Deutsch?

[Marlene]

Ja? Dafür hattest du bisher noch keine Fehler drin. Außer dass "Jahre" groß geschrieben wird. Alle Substantive, Namen und Satzanfänge sind groß. Das ist glaube ich ganz schön schwierig wenn man in Englisch praktisch alles klein schreibt. Andersrum ist auch nicht gerade leicht, wenn man plötzlich alles klein schreiben muss.
Hast du noch Unterricht oder nicht mehr?

[Marlene]

"Ich habe noch drei Wochen Schule übrig und dann habe ich meine Prüfungen (capital letter. And when you can't use ä, ö and ü, you can use ae, oe and ue). Danach Uni (again capital letter). Aber ich hoffe in (it's with n) Zukunft (again) Deutschland zu besuchen."
Oder: "Ich hoffe in Zukunft Deutschland besuchen zu können" (it just sounds better, but your version was correct too)
Do you mean you're finished with school then? Or just with German. Because it would be a funny time to finish school; in the middle of October...

Ich hoffe jedenfalls, dass ich in Zukunft mal nach Amerika komme, für ein oder zwei Semester. Ich habe gerade mit der Uni angefangen und die bieten auch Asutauschprogramme an. Mal sehen.

If you don't understand some words, feel free to ask. I have no idea what could be difficult or not, because I've been growing up with this. ^^

[Marlene]

Okay... So this are your last weeks in school? Wew. Our semester were like this: The half of the school year started in August or September. This went til February. The last semester was from February til June or July, depending on when the six-weeks-long holidays started. And when they were over, there you go again.
I finished school in June. :)
Exactly like an exchange program. (I use the american spelling. programme is british, as far as I know)

Okay, I gotta go. The times zones are forcing me to (it's 2:40am for me and I really need to go to sleep). It was nice talking to you! :D

[Marlene]

Gute Nacht. ;)

[Em~Lost In A Dream~]

-I can't snap my fingers.=/

[the sound of Autumn, Oh dear.]

I can whistle, but only in a quiet, but incredibly high-pitched way.

[Marlene]

I can roll my tongue, I can whistle and I can waggle my ears. But not for the life of me can I snap. I've tried it a thousand times, but I just can't.

[Matthew]

I taught myself to snap last year... but I still can only barely do it.

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

I can only raise one eyebrow.

[Marlene]

I can raise both. And only both together. Ever tried that totally funny, quizzical face where only one eyebrow goes up? Well, I can't.

[the sound of Autumn, Oh dear.]

Haha, I can wiggle my both of my eyebrows. It took me a lot of practice, but now I can do like a wave dance with 'em. It amuses only me, but hey.

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

Marlene wrote: "I can raise both. And only both together. Ever tried that totally funny, quizzical face where only one eyebrow goes up? Well, I can't."

I can do the quizzical face with one raised eyebrow:

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And I can raise two at the same time, but I can't raise my right eyebrow with the other one lowered.

[Matthew]

the sound of Autumn wrote: "Haha, I can wiggle my both of my eyebrows. It took me a lot of practice, but now I can do like a wave dance with 'em. It amuses only me, but hey."

Me to! I CAN DO THE WAVE/WORM!
I can do a lot of things to creep people out with my eyebrows. *snickers*

[Beck (formerly Boo)]

I can do the eyebrows

[Matthew]

I can do a lot of facial expressions, I am very good at body language.

[Marlene]

I just realized that I can do the quizzical eyebrow thing! But only my left eyebrow can go up alone. And I look like a squinting lunatic, but hey! I can do it! xD

[Beck (formerly Boo)]

I make faces.

[the sound of Autumn, Oh dear.]

I have many different facial expressions too. There's the "HEY THERE PERSON WHOSE NAME I CAN'T REMEMBER RIGHT NOW!!" and the "Excuse me?" (as in, "Did you just disagree with me?") and many many others.

[Beck (formerly Boo)]

*clone moment*

[Matthew]

*rolls eyes*

[Em~Lost In A Dream~]

Another thing about me:I'm in color guard,which is twirling flags while performing.=)

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

I can't stand the colour 'Lime Green'! I hate it! I hate it way more than I probably should, considering its just a helpless shade on the colour wheel. That and pastel purple. ugh. *shudders*

[Sarah]

I'm shy ^_^

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

Join the club!

[Marlene]

I hate pink with a passion. And without a reason. Nobody ever tried to put me in a pink dress against my will or something like that, but if they would, it wouldn't end pretty. Neither for the person trying, nor for the dress.

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

Me and pink have a love-hate relationship. It's as if sometimes I see it as this perfectly innocent, pretty colour, and other times it represents everything I hate girls. Weird, eh?

[Marlene]

For me it's always the latter. I don't know why, bu purple is as far as I will go.

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

So, I have this really weird habit. Whenever I'm bored, or nervous or whatever, I tug on the end of my hair. Wrap it around my fingers, run my fingers through it, whatever. I'm not doing it to flirt or anything.

[the sound of Autumn, Oh dear.]

OH MY GOSH, I do the same exact thing!! I'll sit at my desk, take a lock of hair, and run my pencil through it like I'm brushing it. I'm not fussy with my hair or anything, it's just a habit.

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

I know, right?! It's weird because I don't even style my hair much or anything. Usually l just let it flow au natural. But I always, always play with it.

[Jasmine]

When nervous I automatically have to pee. Awkward when ur with ur crush ;)

[Cheyenne, Impressive, Star Fox]

I'm addicted to the Zelda games

[Jasmine]

I really wish I could speak in song quotes and not be weird. Am I the only one who wants this ???

[Marlene]

2-sided wrote: "I really wish I could speak in song quotes and not be weird. Am I the only one who wants this ???"

Nope, I'm with you. I even put a character in one of my books who does. You find a quote for everything you want to say; it's amazing!

[E.J.]

2-sided wrote: "I really wish I could speak in song quotes and not be weird. Am I the only one who wants this ???"

I already do this. :P

[Marlene]

I just burst out random songs, whether they fit or not. It's usually what I'm singing in my head at that time.

[Jasmine]

Will then "welcome to my sunny day" :D

[Jasmine]

I am totally and utterly obsessed with Taylor Swift... Whoops did I say that out loud??? Haha