All categories - 23 September 2006

I have been in spanish for 2 years in college and although I can read fairly well in spanish (at least get the general idea), I am having a much harder time speaking it. I'm worried that I'll never be able to speak well in the language.
Heres how I rate myspef on of the 4 skills required for communication:
1. reading
2. listening
3. writing
4.speaking

I hate it because I get choked up when trying to speak and have a hard time remembering sentence structure etc well enough to speak it properly.

I ran into my spanish professor in a store the other day and she started talking to me in spanish and I felt so stupid because I couldn't respond that quickly. I don't want to sound stupid.

Reading (and even listening) are easier I guess because the sentences are in perfect form already.

Is this normal for 2nd year spanish students? How long will it take for me to be comfortable speaking in spanish and actually able to speak as well as I can read?

Sorry its long. Thanks

2006-09-23 14:54:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

im not goth or devil worshiper but i dont believe in god and people judge me on some stupid thing like that, all my friends believe god but i dont and i want to hear a good reason to believe in god, or that there is a god.

2006-09-23 14:54:13 · 18 answers · asked by onethingaintnothing 1 in Singles & Dating

I've been looking for these...
I've tried Walmart, Borders, and even Ralph's but no luck.
Oh yeah, I live in Los Angeles area.

2006-09-23 14:54:08 · 1 answers · asked by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1 1 in Other - Arts & Humanities

over chocolate coverd mountain tops and waterfalls of caramel.....sorry i have that song in my head......have fun heres two points

2006-09-23 14:54:07 · 3 answers · asked by ? 4 in Television

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2006-09-23 14:54:02 · 2 answers · asked by First L 1 in Other - Entertainment

Please, I need to know iftar and imsak timings for Mississauga
Thanks!

2006-09-23 14:54:01 · 5 answers · asked by Syedfly 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i hardly even have any softwared installed on my computer

2006-09-23 14:54:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Software

This is very true...and for what reason this may be? No one knows....

Someone else besides me finally said it. how many are actually paying attention to this?

There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, Native Americans, etc. and then there are just Americans.

You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me "White boy," "Cracker," "Honkey," "Whitey," "Caveman" and that's OK.

But when I call you, ******, Kike, Towelhead, Sand-******, camel Jockey, Beaner, ****, or Chink you call me a racist.

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you, so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

You have the United ***** College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day. You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day. You have Yom Hashoah You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi You have the NAACP. You have BET.

If we had WET(White Entertainment Television) we'd be racists. If we had a White Pride Day you would call us racists. If we had White History Month, we'd be racists. If we had any organization for only whites to "advance" our lives, we'd be racists.

We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that?

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships, you know we'd be racists. There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US, yet if there were "White colleges" that would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.

You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud. But, you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists?

2006-09-23 14:53:59 · 33 answers · asked by The gr8t alien 5 in Other - Society & Culture

i keep getting a pop up that in italian and no matter how many times i push escape it comes back up like 5 mins later, it changes my home page to about blank and aoutmatically puts on new icons on my desk top, im guessing its some kinda virus but when ever i scan my computer it says theres nothing there...what the crap is this and how do i get rid of it?

2006-09-23 14:53:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Computers

my friend is dating this guy and he flirts a lot with this preppy chick behind my friends back and i want to tell my friend but i don't want to ruin their relationship because she really likes him!it seems like hes cheating on her!! i want to be a good friend and i don't know if that would mean telling her or not! any ideas???

2006-09-23 14:53:49 · 22 answers · asked by guitar gal 1 in Friends

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2006-09-23 14:53:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

just got a toshiba satelite, kinda silver top and i like to name my computer haha, any ideas?

2006-09-23 14:53:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-09-23 14:53:35 · 2 answers · asked by Jennifer 2 in Television

my other ids: yahoo blows/yahoo sucks/yahoo touches me/yahoo fingers me have been after by yahoo q and a, why?

i know they are cause they suck me weanie

2006-09-23 14:53:27 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

The station of the channel

2006-09-23 14:53:24 · 18 answers · asked by babygirl019511 1 in Television

BESIDES A LAB ,CAST ,SPLINT ,EXAMINATION ,SHOT,AND X-RAY?

JUST WONDERING

2006-09-23 14:53:22 · 3 answers · asked by *sarah rox* 2 in Other - Health

2006-09-23 14:53:15 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Music

Religious folks argue that their deity is intelligent, but yet exists outside of time (because time was only created when the deity created the universe).

Well, what kind of intelligence can you describe that doesn't exist in time? Intelligence means the ability to acquire knowledge, to perceive new information and make sense of it, to make decisions, to design, to create and so on. All these things require the passage of time - they all require a 'before', when the thing hasn't happened yet, and an 'after', when it has. Moreover, the only kind of intelligence we know about involves growth, development, acquisition of tools and skills etc., so not only does it require time, it also means change from a state of lesser intelligence to a state of greater intelligence - It doesn't make any sense to imagine intelligence fully formed with no 'infancy', no growth, no development.

How can you explain an intelligence that could exist before there was time or a universe to develop in?

2006-09-23 14:53:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

ok so im getting these ingrown hair things under my belly....i dont know what they are they kinda look like ingrown hairs but it might be something else. im going to the doctor in a couple of days but i was curious in what it is. they are round ovalish like and hurt a little bit when i press on it. they are about the size of a dime but smaller. it seems if i get rid of one another comes out later. kinda gross. i 1st thought it was a pimple (one of the smaller ones) and i squished it and pimple like puss came out. i get one and then eventually goes away then i get another smaller one all under my belly, they leave pretty bad scars too...it concerns me bc i thought it might be syphillis but i really doubt it bc ive always used protections cept for one time when the condom broke but that was about a year ago with some girl i used to date and i bearly started getting this things about 1 month ago....any one knows what they are?

2006-09-23 14:53:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Men's Health

my sister had a mold to make plaster hands from her grandaughters hands, it came as a kit, filled with something that she put her hand in, this formed the mold of her hand then you could pour plaster or wax into the mold and have a copy of the childs hand, i need to know anything name, brand, where you can buy them, any info to help me find these! i have 3 grand angels and another one on the way and want to do this before they get too grown! thx for helping!

2006-09-23 14:53:09 · 3 answers · asked by feather_63057 2 in Hobbies & Crafts

I am just wondering I already have 1 male who is 1 year old.

2006-09-23 14:53:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Pets

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2006-09-23 14:53:04 · 4 answers · asked by Euro 3 in Cameras

My LC artery and RC artery have also tight stenosis.

2006-09-23 14:52:57 · 5 answers · asked by Hafeez 3 in Heart Diseases

I don't know if it's every 8 secs or 10 secs

2006-09-23 14:52:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Health

2006-09-23 14:52:52 · 3 answers · asked by Luciana Grimaldi 1 in Polls & Surveys

Okay now this one girl invited me to this football game on saturday about 2 weeks or 4 weeks ago and she said tat it was sweet that i came. She seemed happy that i did. So i was thinking i could you know kick it or hang with her so is this good to say or not:

"Hey here is my cell, if you want to do something you know what to do, im looking forward to it".

If this aint good enough then what else could be good?

2006-09-23 14:52:48 · 9 answers · asked by popstar452003 2 in Singles & Dating