Hi there people!

sunshine · Post by **sunshine** » 09 Nov 2005, 22:45

Hi,

I just wanted to intoduce myself. My English is not perfect so im sorry if I make mistakes...

My name is Sunita and I'm 19. I live in Holland close bye the city from where the VOC (you know with the boats and stuff) operated. I live together with my boyfriend and I love animals. I have a dog (amstaff) a snake and an aquarium. In december we are also getting two lizzards the dutch name is 'baardagaam' but I dont know what it is in English. I have 4 catfish, a farlowella acus, an albino gibbi and two more but I dont know they're names... (see my topic on whats this catfish) anyway. If you have questions or just want to talk im happy to oblige (hahaha how do you write that???)

Greetings Sunny

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 09 Nov 2005, 23:19

your future lizard is called a Bearded Dragon in English.
very popular in both the UK and US too.....

a google on 'bearded dragon' gave a stunning 8980 hits

and that's just images, not references or articles.

btw the Latin name (wich is universally silimar in all languages) is Pogona Vitticeps

Welcome on board!

sunshine · Post by **sunshine** » 10 Nov 2005, 10:35

Thnx for the info!

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 11 Nov 2005, 16:36

Welcome, Sunshine!

Lovely creature, Sid.

jojitsui · Post by **jojitsui** » 17 Nov 2005, 14:19

Hello sunshine, i wouldn't worry about your english to much its better than mine

sunshine · Post by **sunshine** » 17 Nov 2005, 14:42

thnx jojuitsu

I try to make as little mistakes as possible. Anyway why is your English so bad? I don't see any spelling mistakes? And you are from Wales, I assume that English is your first laguage? I know that wales has an accent but its still English right?

Well anyway, thnx for the compliment.

Greetz Sunny

jojitsui · Post by **jojitsui** » 17 Nov 2005, 14:49

yep i am welsh and english is my first (and only) language but sometimes my spelling is terrible and i use way to much slang, was also tryin to make you worry less about it

. joey x

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 18 Nov 2005, 11:28

Well, Wales have two different official languages, and English is the main one, but Welsh is the "original" language of Wales. They share next to nothing, aside from some of the "new" words introduced into Welsh in the last century or so. I can't speak (or read) Welsh, but I know enough about it to say that it's COMPLETELY different, not only in spelling and pronounciation, but it's also a different structure. It's a Gaelic language, so it's related to the non-french language spoken in Brittany, and also of the same heritage as Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic [from which the word Whiskey comes, in the Uiscea Bae (spelling?), meaning "Water of life"].

Typical things you see in welsh is the missing 'v', instead written with 'ff', and double 'l' used for a 'schl', so Llandrindodd Wells is pronounced Schlandrindod.

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Mats

sunshine · Post by **sunshine** » 18 Nov 2005, 12:11

oh I didn't know that, interesting. Learning something new every day