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Re: Chat thread :)
By: Ahiku Date: May 13, 2014, 3:34 pm
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Awww... another btw!
It's not possible to change those...extremly ugly smileys. It's
just possible when you upgrade the forum and pay for it monthly.
X'D This is torture, forum guys! It's not even possible to
disable or hide them. *hits every of those stinky yellow things
in the face*
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: Elanra Date: May 13, 2014, 8:50 pm
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[quote author=Ahiku link=topic=9.msg114#msg114 date=1400000820]
The first time I’ve read one of your fanfictions I had the
feeling you’re a native English speaker. How did you
learn English so well? Did you learn it autodidactically?
You’ve written that you love reading a lot, so I guess
that helped a lot, since it affords insight into foreign
languages and cultures. Or have you ever lived in the States
expect for the time you stayed with thesexymaid? ^^[/quote]
Most of it was autodidactical admittedly. I've always been
fascinated in the language ever since I realized what it truly
meant to learn a second language in 7th grade (we started
learning English in the 6th grade back then, now students start
as early as first grade) when I was listening to a song on the
radio in my mother's car and I understood the lyrics. I was so
blown away by the realization that learning English wasn't just
something to help me get a better job in the future, it opened
up the entire world to me. I could travel, I could immerse
myself in other cultures, I could appreciate the beauty of
songs, movies, books in their original language when their
intended spirit and meaning was not lost in translation. I
started borrowing English short stories and intermediate level
novels from the school libraries and tried to read them with a
dictionary beside me. I have maybe half a dozen dictionaries
nearly falling apart in boxes because I never allowed myself to
be too lazy to skip a word I didn't know when reading. I looked
up every single one of them and it made me feel so proud if I
could remember them later on while writing or speaking to
someone. I started watching shows and movies in their original
language with Turkish subtitles until I didn't need them
anymore. By highschool, I was way ahead of the class in English
and my heart was already stolen by creative writing. I had a
teacher when I was 18 who was.. almost like a father to me... He
was the first person to ever read some of my poems and short
stories and he encouraged me so much, I probably wouldn't have
been the person I am today if it wasn't for him. He also pushed
me to take the British Language and Literature exam for the
Cambridge University that my school at the time co-executed with
Cambridge and even though I scored high enough to earn a
scholarship, I wasn't able to go because of family reasons ;A;
My love for the language only grew in time. It still grows
everyday. Every new book I read, every new word I learn, puns,
jokes, phrases, slang terms.. they all fascinate me and excite
me so much. I was never the kind of person to feel ashamed to
ask what something meant nor was I embarrassed at making
mistakes. I wanted to be corrected and to be taught new stuff.
Forgetting a word really upsets me though and I literally can't
sleep at night unless I remember the exact word I am thinking
of. That's also why Thesaurus.com is one of my most used
bookmarks xD
Delving in No.6 fanned the feeble flames of my shy attempts at
creative writing into an all-out wildfire. I have never written
so much in my life nor have I ever been as happy in my writing
as I am now. I am still nowhere near half as good as I want to
be but the kind of inspiration and nagging need to write; to
continue the story No.6 makes me feel was something I've never
felt in my life before and it truly changed my life. It's
because I got confidence in my writing I dared to apply for a
job at an advertisement agency for a position in writing alone;
something I'd have never done pre-No.6, and I got the job. ^^
And again, it's thanks to No.6 I found my favorite written piece
in the world. I have read so much... so many books ever since I
was as young as six... Nearly two years after the anime ended,
thesexymaid wrote a fanfiction named The Fall
HTML http://thesexymaid.tumblr.com/post/57175847591
and I've
honestly.. never.. read anything as beautiful in my life before.
I've probably read it twenty times since it was posted and can
recite some lines from it by heart now and even just thinking
about it makes my heart beat faster. I am absolutely in love
with the astonishing mystic and that.. near poetic excellence of
her piece and I will likely never get over it. It was perfect...
just simply.. perfect. She reminded me one more time just why
the English language is so beautiful, why No.6 with its
characters is nothing like we have seen before, why I am the
kind of person that lives for love and why it's the one thing
worth living.. and dying for. Since it was such a personal piece
for me... it'll always be unequally special to me.
So, yes, thesexymaid has a huge part in improving my English
because even though I have always been ridiculously passionate
about it, I was never using it THIS actively in the past before.
I think, write, even dream in English now and after spending six
months with her in the states without speaking a word of
Turkish, I feel she has given me a priceless experience that
I'll always be grateful for for the rest of my life. I've been
to the states before but it was only for two weeks on 2012, it
was nothing like what she did for me. She changed my life just
as much as No.6 did by making it possible for me to meet her ^^
[quote author=Ahiku link=topic=9.msg114#msg114
date=1400000820]BTW: Something else… I dreamed of Elanra
and thesexymaid last night… A strange guy put some boxes
in a transporter and you were hiding in some of them to escape
the government for whatever reason. (I just knew you were in
some of the boxes, I didn’t see you…) and after a
complete change of scene some random people and I searched for
Elanra who was lost in labyrinth of bathroom stalls… ^^°
Weird.
[/quote]
Ohmygod! I do want to escape my government but in boxes in a
transporter?!? AND GDI THESEXYMAID YOU LEFT ME BEHIND AND I GOT
LOST. I hope you found me Ahiku because I am sure she was too
busy shooting down or slitting the throats of whoever was
chasing us while I was wandering in a bathroom trying to find my
way out :/
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: nezushi Date: May 14, 2014, 4:23 am
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i hope i'm not intruding by joining in on this chat hahah i just
joined the forum today. you all seem like such interesting
people! and the fact that you all like no.6 just makes me happy.
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: Ahiku Date: May 14, 2014, 6:22 am
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Thanks for your detailed answer, Elanra. It was really, really
interesting. I totally like the image of those old used
dictionaries – it’s like a witness of your hard work,
fascination and curiosity. Admittedly I have to say that I
always hated it to look up words and I didn’t understand the
importance of the English language when I was still a young
student. I started to learn the language when I was 10 years
old, but it never awakened my interest completely during my
school career, although I chose English to be one of my
intensive courses and started to like it a bit more then. When I
started to study I needed it, because a lot of specialist
literature is in English and it always came in handy when I
wanted to read scanlations or subtitled animes…
But yes, it’s not only useful, it is beautiful as well.
Although, the same applies to other languages. :3
Sometimes I regret my laziness when I was younger, especially
when it comes to talking. I always die a thousand deaths when I
have to take English calls at work. Writing is way easier and it
gives you more time to think about everything you want to say.
But now I also want to learn it better. ^^
Thanks to No. 6.
This series is so special. I guess it helped so many people…
Thanks to it I found my creativity again which was lost in a
monotonous rut of work and nothing but regret concerning bygone
times.
By the way, “The Fall” is really beautiful. (Q_Q) Thanks for
your recommendation. I totally understand why you like it so
much. Even if thesexymaid is pissed now.
[member=26]nezushi[/member]: Welcome! X3 I hope you’ll like it
here.
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: Yuneyn Date: May 14, 2014, 7:11 am
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Somehow I have the feeling that a lot of people who speak
correct English had to learn it by themselves. In France the
education is horrible when it comes to foreign languages, we
start late and some teachers are just not good at all. I had one
in college who regularly made mistakes while writing on the
board and we had to correct him... XD
As for me, I remember wanting to understand the lyrics of the
English songs I was listening to when I was younger. And with
the beginning of the internet a little later, everything was in
English, so if I wanted to find information about my passions I
had to become better. I started watching movies and TV shows in
English with English subs as soon as I got a DVD player, and it
helped a lot. By the time I was in college, you could definitely
see the difference between people who, like me, had practiced by
themselves; and the ones who only stuck to the school lessons.
Those could form sentences... with difficulty.
Now I know that I'm far from being bilingual, but I can't
imagine my life without English. Internet, books, TV shows,
music... it's all in English for me, and the animes I watch have
to have English subs. French translations have pissed me off
more than I can tell XD (like how Shion became Aster in the No.6
novel...) I talk to myself in English when I'm alone too^^ I was
such a bad student, but English was the only subject I've always
been good at, so it's important to me to keep getting better.
Anyway, sorry for rambling! I need to read "The Fall" too, I'll
keep it in my tabs and read it when I'm back home tonight ;)
@nezushi Welcome!!! Feel free to join the conversations
everywhere :)
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: Elanra Date: May 14, 2014, 9:28 am
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@Yuneyn
HTML http://no6.createaforum.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1,
oh god
I talk to myself in English when I am alone too! It's so
embarrassing to admit that for me! I am so happy I am not the
only one xD
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: sshion Date: May 14, 2014, 9:46 am
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It's always great to be able to discuss and read how No. 6 has
changed and/or affected everyone in different ways. I always try
and encourage new friends and old to read No. 6, the novels were
beyond beautiful and quite honestly unlike anything I've ever
read before which is probably saying something because I like to
read a lot too, it's great to hear that Elanra. It's a shame
about the Cambridge thing, I've been there seeing as though I
live in Wales and practically live in England too because of my
family splitting, but the fact that you got a high enough score
for a scholarship is amazing enough.
English was my favourite subject too, as well as Art ahah, I
preferred English Language as a course to English Literature,
though I blame the material that we had to work with in contrast
to other classes. I took a break from English when attending
college and studied more on art and game programming, but now
hopefully when I go to university, I'll be able to take Creative
Writing studies and it includes a bit of theatre too.. sighs
because I'm so nervous, and that depends if I even make it to
university or not. xD; the results and deadlines aren't long
away now.
So.. I'm guessing not everyone here is English or American?
Sorry I'm trying to scan through the forum before I'm hurried
off to do chores. It's interesting to see just how much No. 6
has influenced others this much! Whisks away to do homework...
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: Yuneyn Date: May 14, 2014, 11:17 am
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[member=13]Elanra[/member], Do you also use English words when
you're talking in your mother language? Sometimes the English
words seem to fit much more to what I want to say so I use it in
the middle of a sentence... But I don't really realize it... And
then my friends and family usually make fun of me^^
[member=15]sshion[/member], you're right, there's a lot of
different nationalities here! Which I personally love, as I love
learning about other countries. I'm from France btw, if you
didn't get that, but I'm moving to Luxembourg at the end of the
week.
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: sshion Date: May 14, 2014, 3:51 pm
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Oh? I loved France when I went! I remember loving the scenery
and the food was great too. I've been to Paris twice, but it'd
be nice to visit France again, I really enjoyed it last time.
And I had to google Luxembourg but wow *n* it looks gorgeous,
lots of beautiful buildings and greenery, I hope the move goes
okay for you.
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Re: Chat thread :)
By: Elanra Date: May 15, 2014, 12:10 pm
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[quote author=Yuneyn link=topic=9.msg146#msg146 date=1400084256]
[member=13]Elanra[/member], Do you also use English words when
you're talking in your mother language? Sometimes the English
words seem to fit much more to what I want to say so I use it in
the middle of a sentence... But I don't really realize it... And
then my friends and family usually make fun of me^^
[/quote]
Yes, yes, yes I do. I am guilty. It's either because I legit
can't remember the corresponding Turkish word to the English one
I am remembering or, like you said, the English word is ten
times more fitting than its Turkish translation. Either way, I
too get teased by my family a lot about it xD
I don't mind though. Like I said, I've never felt embarrassment
about using English whether I make a mistake or not. ^^
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