http://www.language-exchanges.org/

Great for learning.

2015 Golden Cha Reveal

Well deserved!

Def worthy.

Congratulations

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Every time.

Thanks. I would say I naturally did a lot of that stuff Clark was talking about (including switching games to Portugese and wotnot ). On that CEFR scale, I would be a solid B1 and maaaaaaybe a weak B2. I think most native speakers would tell me I'm a B2, but I think they're being generous. Like, I can go to parties, etc. and can talk to strangers about whatever, but I might need to ask them to explain a word and vice versa.

I "read" news sites daily, although it's a bit ...I don't know the word... "self biasing" because I tend to only read things I already understand and if I don't understand something, I tend to just move on to something I do understand. Obviously I should remedy this, but that is part of what I'm looking for, something that will send/alert me a "topic of the day", be it a specific grammar concept or a general concept. Like, I love quick but meaningful things like this.

I've also got a lot of Brazilian facebook friends and am in a few open brazilian groups on fb and my in-laws whatsapp, etc., so I read a lot of informal language everyday which is great two... aaaaand we speak more or less only Portuguese at home which obviously helps, but similarly to the way I "read news", speaking at home often falls into a limited range of common topics (as does facebook groups filled mostly with tourists and/or new arrivals).

So yeah, I'm looking for like quick daily lessons as either refreshers to what I already know, or possibly teaching me new concepts and also formalizing concepts which I am proficient with, but that I may not have formally learnt/understood (i.e. I just picked them up in conversation).

Nice choice Aidan!

+1. For a second I thought Aidan was choosing himself, which until about 2 months ago would have been a fine choice.

Does Jessah13 even LC? If not, someone probably ought to tell him he won the golden cha (Edit: I see this has been taken care of).

I guess we're just waiting on Emoken for the golden loco. Is there any choice other than bdiddy (assuming I understand the criteria for the golden loco).

garlicyum was in with a shout at some point, but i dropped off the radar for a while so I'm not sure how he's getting on.

heh, i thought about awarding it to myself as a semi-troll. ain't too many others with 2015 whiteboard entries... RIP aidan

Merry Christmas (eve).

I am at work.

Ho ****ing Ho.

Maybe Santa will bring you a spine.

bb,

Aren't you the guy with 20y Java EE "experience" who bombed out a basic Java EE test and then pretended that this was totally normal?

kek

And some hopes and dreams

I'm at work as well, and it's the greatest workday imaginable. No one is here and I'm just doing whatever tf I wanna do. Life is good. Praise plokj

Maybe?

Are the before and after from this year alone? Sick transformation by Jessah13.

In his thread he said the quad gains SxSxS pic were each about 2 years apart IIRC. Not sure about the other pics.

Well, i did get a parking spot on level 2.

Bb, how many years until retirement?

So last night some woman was sobbing uncontrollably outside my door. Actually more like wailing. I also heard a man's voice. It didn't sound like a fight.

I chose not to get involved. Was this correct?

Of course wtf

Took the day off today. Actually off until the 4th.

320 hours of "earned time benefit" ftw.