[Bettiboop]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Oh my goodness, it is after midnight. I do not allow myself to type after midnight.

Goodnight.
Boomer

Boomer, I agree with Linda!

I love ALL your posts...but especially the ones you do after midnight! Often times when you mention you can't type after midnight I get this silly notion in my mind that maybe your computer turns into a pumpkin at the stroke of midnight! I'm just sayin........

Originally Posted by Bettiboop

Boomer, I agree with Linda!

I love ALL your posts...but especially the ones you do after midnight! Often times when you mention you can't type after midnight I get this silly notion in my mind that maybe your computer turns into a pumpkin at the stroke of midnight! I'm just sayin........

Well isn't this just the truth. When I imagine meeting all of the TOTV people, Boomer is one of the members I have at the top of my list of people I'd like to meet. She is beyond clever.

In fact, Boomer is so clever I think she should take the time to go through all of her TOTV posts and put them in a book. It would definitely be a best seller in TV. What the heck? Perhaps it would even make the New York Times best seller list!

I just hope she never grades any of my posts for correct grammar usage.

[Boomer]

Thanks everybody for joining me on my quest as I tried to decide about Rosetta Stone.

I just wanted to let you know that Italian won.

Today, at lunch, I said to Mr. Boomer, "Well, I have decided that I want the Italian."

And just now I was calling Rosetta Stone and Mr. Boomer heard me and he came in and said, "Are you talking to Rosetta Stone? I already ordered it for you."

And so it is written. Rosetta Stone Italian is in the mail and is supposed to be here in two days. Free shipping even. But still, that thing is mucho dinero. I sure hope I am worthy.

Boomer

[jojo]

Boomer, as with my colleagues on TOTV I too enjoy your posts. Since you are not down here you may not be aware that there are Italian language groups that meet as well as Italian classes in the learning college. I'm sorry I will miss this week's Italian fest but last year it was great fun.

[Muncle]

Boomer, I find your writing to be boring in the morning. I find your writing to be boring in the evening.
Boomer, I find your writing to be boring before midnight. I find your writing to be boring after midnight.

Boomer, I find your writing to be boring in English. So I will likely find your writing to be boring in the Italian, unless you can arrange for Lesley Ann to come over and read it to me.

As if it were not already PO (to the) mco, I am kidding about the boring part -- you're always interesting if sometimes a tad removed from the vertical room support and if I were feeling a bit better and didn't have an innate fear of Mr. Boomer, you'd have to check every time you threw the dish water out the back door for fear of hitting me. I was not, of course, kidding about Lesley Ann.

Now let's talk Italian. Cop out! Cop out! Cop out! Just an attempt to avoid the more difficult Eastern European languages to take one of those easy Romance things. This ain't German, Russian, or Polish. Just say it in English, wave your hands a bit, move the sentence structure around however you like it, and yell occasionally. They'll think you're a native.

Buona fortuna.





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[another Linda]

Italian! Wonderful! and don't listen to that old Uncle Muncle. No yelling needed, just a few hand gestures while driving will do it.

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by Muncle

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Now let's talk Italian. Cop out! Cop out! Cop out! Just an attempt to avoid the more difficult Eastern European languages to take one of those easy Romance things. This ain't German, Russian, or Polish. Just say it in English, wave your hands a bit, move the sentence structure around however you like it, and yell occasionally. They'll think you're a native.

Buona fortuna.
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Oh Munc,

Please do not guilt me over denying my mostly German heritage. The huge dose I have of it already makes me exceedingly, excruciatingly responsible. Actually, I have a few other things going on, too. English, of course. And then there was the Cherokee great-grandmother. And who knows what else. But mostly....German.

It's not that I don't like a beer now and then. And I have to admit that a good oom-pah-pah band speaks to me somewhere deep in my soul.

But Munc, I want to speak Italian. I want to sound like music. And I already wave my hands around when I talk. I always have. I used to get into trouble at the dinner table when I was a kid. My dad would have to yell sometimes, "BOOMER, PUT THAT FORK DOWN WHEN YOU TELL A STORY. YOU NEARLY POKED OUT MY EYE!"

Soooo, interesting but...."a tad removed from the vertical room support." Translation? "Off the wall" And I am glad you like it and right back at ya, Munc.

Boomer

PS: Hey Linda, I just saw your encouraging words. Thanks. And I already know those hand things you're talking about. Wow! I am off to a good start I think and the Rosetta Stone has not even arrived yet.

[Halle]

Hi Boomer,

I agree with Linda, a few hand gestures go a long way. I lived in Sicily for three years and by the time I returned to the US I couldn't drive without the various hand gestures.

Just make sure you know when to use them and what they mean.

Warning "Hook em Horns" sign does not mean you are a Texas fan.

Capice?

Halle

[Avista]

I too have been daydreaming about getting the Rosetta Stone, but agree it is i very pricey. I am half German and remember hearing German occasionally as a child. So, am interested in learning German. Don't know how I'd use it unless it might help with my German genealogy research.

Most of my family has learned French as a 2nd language. And then--of course there is Spanish. I keep daydreaming. Please post how you like it, once you start using it.

[Avista]

I've been doing some internet research. Years ago I got tapes for the Pimsleur Method which helped me a great deal when I lived in France a couple of months.

Found Pimsleur CD's (German) for $9.95. These are audio and I can download to me IPod, listen when I go to the fitness center etc. Will give it a try.

I used the French tapes 15 years ago and was quite pleased with them.

So will give this a chance.

[katezbox]

Boomer,

Maybe we can take a Mediterranean Cruise together - you translate while in Italy; I translate while in Turkey. And in between (I have to say it - my apologies in advance) it's all Greek to me.

[another Linda]

Kate, you will translate in Turkey? I'm impressed! But is it like my son's Korean? Maybe I won't go to any hair salons -- not that I don't trust you of course.

(ok. go to work Linda)

[katezbox]

Linda,

A hair salon in Turkey is called a Kuofur - put pronounced coiffure. Much Turkish has a French heritage. In fact the word "turquoise" in French is meant to denote a certain shade of blue found often in - Turkey!

I used the Turkish Rosetta Stone to prepare for my daughter's wedding (meeting the groom's parents and doing a toast in two languages) and our subsequent trip to Istanbul for a second reception.

With a lot of hand gestures I get by with the in laws - they have less English than I have Turkish. But if I really want to get better, I need to get back to the Rosetta Stone and finish it. (Somehow when your daughter is getting married you seem to lose all your free time - but I can't keep using that excuse for years).

Kendine iyi bak!

Kate

[tony]

I have secretly suspected that Boomer is an English major.

Now an Italian major, too?

I know a lot of Italian words I could teach Boomer if she really wants to learn the right way. Who knows? They could serve her if she were to ever visit Italy.

Originally Posted by katezbox

Boomer,

Maybe we can take a Mediterranean Cruise together - you translate while in Italy; I translate while in Turkey. And in between (I have to say it - my apologies in advance) it's all Greek to me.

Hi Kate,

I love the Mediterranean cruise idea. Everyone who wants to go should be required to purchase a Rosetta Stone in a different language. Each person who learned the language of the specific country could serve as a tour guide for the rest of the group. And just in case, if after not listening to my Rosetta Stone cds I don't learn the language (of course it will be my own fault). I will bring a handy dandy electronic language translator!