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robbo203 wrote:I am crap at language and always have been.
I don't think that's true. I just think most foreign language teaching is bad. Have a look at the Language Transfer Spanish course in the link I posted above. They use a very effective method, one that you wont really come across in other places. It's an entirely free, voluntary project ran by a guy that is now living in Barcelona. Here's a video of him teach Spaniards English: https://www.facebook.com/languagetransfer/videos/10153047250840431/
alanjjohnstone wrote:If you haven’t started a new language by the age of 10, you have no chance of achieving fluency and that even basic learning abilities fade by 17 or 18.This is absolute bullshit. Es totalmente falso! Most western European languages are much more closely related than most people would realise. The trouble is that most language teaching methods are really awful, and the language learning industry is plagued with cowboys. Lots of people learn how to communicate sufficiently in a second language in adult life. I think the experience of language lessons in schools just leaves most people feeling like it's something they can't do. Some studies I've seen referenced show that adults can actually learn grammar rules quicker than children – we've already been through the process once.Speaking from experience, that Duolingo App isn't really going to help you much apart from to find out if you're interested enough to put the work in. It's just a memory game with no explanation of how the language works or guidance on how to make the phonetic sounds that you'll need to speak. He's right though that practice is best done little and often.I'm surprised AJ isn't bilingual. It shouldn't be too hard to find someone that will trade help with English for help in the native language. I've been doing this with Spanish speakers and my ability is noticeably improving month on month.Mirar este, es muy interesante:www.languagetransfer.org
Here's a good policy for saving the lives of the unborn:https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/13/health/abortion-texas-lawmaker-trnd/index.html
Rusty Pigfumbler wrote:These 'antiquated, offensive laws' save lives. The lives of the yet to be born.Well then perhaps we so go for an absolute ban on all contraception? Think of all the lives of the yet to be born we would save!Every sperm is sacred after all!
Anarchism has only really been a thing in latin speaking countries. This is what the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist CGT is organising on March 8th.http://cgt.org.es/noticias-cgt/noticias-cgt/argumentario-de-cgt-para-la-huelga-general-del-8-de-marzohttp://cgt.org.es/rntv-29-huelga-8-de-marzoOK It's not going to bring about socialism but I sound piece of trade unionism. Not all "anarchists" are going around picking on poor defenceless rubbish bins. But of course not to paint too a rosey picture, in Spain "anarchist" responce to the catalonian situation was pretty dreadful.http://libcom.org/library/catalonian-affair-miguel-amor-s
ALB wrote:Unfortunately we can't enforce any copyright on the meaning of the word. Still, the re-introduction of the word in mainstream politics gives us a foot in the door to say what it has, does and should mean.I agree. Though you only turn people off by telling them that they are not using the "correct definition" of a word. I know that's not what you said above, but some SPGBrs certainly do do this. Defenitions are determined by groups of people through shared use. Like this guy says:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Vab1dFL-U
I think if you were banned you wouldn’t be able to log in at all. Sometimes Facebook has temporarily glitches. Try later and / or clear your browser cache.
Rusty Pigfumbler wrote:What is it you've got against babies?A fertilized egg is not a baby. What have you got against women?
alanjjohnstone wrote:Justin Trudeau has told a woman at a university event in Edmonton to say "peoplekind" rather than "mankind."Sounds like he was mansplaining
Dragon festival it was, 2002 I think. Cigarrones was the place.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_FestivalIncidentally I was in Barcelona earlier this year, there was an exhibition in Montjuic Castle about German fascism in Barcelona. The Nazis had a strong prescence with long Nazi banners being hung across the city from 39-45 http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/castelldemontjuic/en/activitats/exposicions/nazis-and-fascists-symbolic-occupation-barcelona-1939-1945Of course Catalonia is the region where the authorities now take the exhumation and identification of war remains most seriously.
I visited Orgiva about 15 years ago. A lot of British and other European hippies live near there on a dried up river bed, but I think that is not at El Carrizal. I had no idea about the mass grave there. Spain is second only to Cambodia in terms of victims whose remains have never been found.http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2008/10/20/%E2%80%9Cthe-dead-are-so-many-here%E2%80%9D/
Sympo wrote:In the manuscript, Marx says "its value is determined by the quantity of labour necessary to produce it." But isn't the value of those things determined by the labour it took to make them aswell?Value (not price) in Marx is determined by the amount of *abstract* socially necessary labour time necessary to reproduce a commidity at any given time. Perhaps this could be regarded as an "axiom" I'm nor sure…
