From the ashes will rise a new Hivemind.

[Dog Moon]

Damn...and I thought normal chess was confusing.

Yeah, but some of those look sort of awesome.

Like this one: Bughouse chess: (also known as Double chess, Exchange chess, Siamese chess, Swap chess, Tandem chess, Matrix chess) two teams of two players face each other on two boards. Allies use opposite colours and give captured pieces to their partner.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I took 3 years of Spanish in High School. Forgot most of it.

I can not even begin to learn it as my professor speaks 99% in Spanish, and does not know English very well.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Ahhh, studying for a Spanish test...

stuff..

I can not even begin to learn it as my professor speaks 99% in Spanish, and does not know English very well.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZzMcwBSryg]YouTube - Mexican American's -Cheech & Chong[/ame]

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Mexican Americans by Cheech and Chong

Mexican Americans don't like to just get into gang fights,
they like flowers and music and white girls named Debbie too.

Mexican Americans are named Chata and Chella and Chima
and have a son in law named jeff.

Mexican Americans don't like to get up early in the morning
but they have to so they do it real slow.

Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school
and they take spanish and get a B.

Mexican Americans love their Nana's and their Nono's and their
Nena's and their Neno's........ Nano Nano Nena Nono!

Mexican Americans don't like to go to the movies where the
dude has to wear contact lenses to make his blue eyes brown
cause don't it make my brown eyes blue.....
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[Tinker Gnome]

lolwut?

 

[Relique du Madde]

Cheech and Chong are gods.

 

[Jdvn1]

I can not even begin to learn it as my professor speaks 99% in Spanish, and does not know English very well.

My professors used to recommend watching spanish-language TV. I don't understand how people learn languages by watching TV.

Buena suerte!

 

[Relique du Madde]

My professors used to recommend watching spanish-language TV. I don't understand how people learn languages by watching TV.

Buena suerte!

Why not walk outside in Huston's Barrios or sit in any restaurant close to the kitchen?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I think its partly things like watching shows you're familiar with in your native tongue- I know, for instance, that I could watch all of the 3 Stooges stuff in Hungarian. Ditto Gilligan's Island.

And I watch enough of shows like that, I'm going to be able to pick up on certain linguistic substitutions. Take GI for instance...by my second episode- heck, possibly by the second commercial break- I will probably have figured out the Hungarian words for "Professor" "Skipper" and "coconut", maybe even "minnow" and "storm"

Then there's that whole "common word" and "visual cues" thing.

If you are standing next to a Hungarian having a phone conversation, and you hear him repeating a word while nodding his head, you'll figure out pretty soon that "egen" means "yes."

Or you'll see a "No Smoking", "Police", "Stop" or "Danger!" sign and figure that one out.

Do it long enough...

 

[Jdvn1]

Why not walk outside in Huston's Barrios or sit in any restaurant close to the kitchen?

The first because I value my health and well-being, and the second because... well, the same reason for both.

 

[Jdvn1]

I think its partly things like watching shows you're familiar with in your native tongue- I know, for instance, that I could watch all of the 3 Stooges stuff in Hungarian. Ditto Gilligan's Island.

And I watch enough of shows like that, I'm going to be able to pick up on certain linguistic substitutions. Take GI for instance...by my second episode- heck, possibly by the second commercial break- I will probably have figured out the Hungarian words for "Professor" "Skipper" and "coconut", maybe even "minnow" and "storm"

Then there's that whole "common word" and "visual cues" thing.

If you are standing next to a Hungarian having a phone conversation, and you hear him repeating a word while nodding his head, you'll figure out pretty soon that "egen" means "yes."

Or you'll see a "No Smoking", "Police", "Stop" or "Danger!" sign and figure that one out.

Do it long enough...

I suppose I can understand watching a show you're already familiar with, but the process (whether you're familiar with the show or not) is pretty long and, in my opinion, painful. I'd get bored and give up before I figured out what they were saying. Then again, I'd be much better at it if I had a book (textbook or dictionary) and pronunciation guide to help me out as I watched. But, then I'd probably do just fine with just the book (for most languages).