Tuesday, July 16, 2024
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A Quick Question: Are you an amateur photographer or hobbits? Noticed how many pictures you have posted with guys and cameras.
ReplyDeleteAnon, I’m neither. I had a ton of pics saved with guys and cameras, so I use one as my Pic of the Day every Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reply, and explanation. I like photography, but am not too good at it. It’s a relaxing weekend past time. Sometimes my photos actually come out half decent (lol).
DeleteAmo a estos dos chicos de la foto
ReplyDeleteÁngel
I agree - 100%.
DeleteThe two guys in the photo are extremely relaxed and seem to be enjoying one another’s company.
Anon, I am one of those people who go on vacation and completely forget to take any pictures. Occasionally, I get a good picture. The picture at the top of my blog was taken by me in Amboise, France.
ReplyDeleteSo you do have an “eye” for photography!!!! I knew it.
DeleteDespite owning a Sony A7, DLSR camera, I am shamefully horrible at taking pictures. My enthusiasm & passion do align with my skills abilities. The kids mastered the camera & photography even before I paid it off from Best Buy. Go figure!?!?!?!
Correction: …DON’T ALIGN…
ReplyDeleteAmboise! I suspected that the photo was not taken in the USA. We can actually see the castle on the right.
ReplyDeleteuvdp, I did a study abroad in the Loire Valley and Paris. My graduate school has a campus in Pontlevoy.
ReplyDeleteJoe : Pontlevoy ! Vous avez habité une abbaye ! Malheureusement , maintenant il y a un lycée , c'est dommage pour l'amitié franco-américaine . Vous comprenez le français ?
ReplyDeleteYes, uvdp, I did get to live in an abbey, Richelieu’s abbey to be precise. Sadly, though, I can’t speak nor read French. I can understand some of it when I hear it, but not much. I’m much better with Spanish and Italian. I know enough in the three languages to say, “I don’t speak (insert language here),” order food, and ask for directions. I can at least read Spanish, though since I do not do so regularly, I’m a little rusty.
ReplyDeleteLiving so close to Quebec, I wish I did know French, but I never have been great with other languages.
Like many northeastern American high school students — now in their 40s & 50s — a foreign language was a basic requirement to graduate. And while we could read a lunch menu, most of us never developed enough fluency a second language to order any food. Coming from upstate NY, a school trip to Quebec was part of “cultural enrichment” & immersion learning,
ReplyDeleteThe kids who opted to learn Spanish went to Puerto Rico.
Neither group of us students got much further than basic language skills. Fortunately, I was able to get an AP credit than followed me to college.
So overall, my HS French language education wasn’t a total bust. Thankfully, I only had to take one additional semester of foreign language in college.
God protects fools, children, and idiots — like myself.
I took two years of Spanish in high school, and while we learned a fair amount, most of which is now forgotten, we also had to memorize Bible verses. I can still easily rattle off, “ Yo soy el camino, y la verdad, y la vida. Juan catorce y seis.” I took three quarters (we didn’t have semesters at my college) of Spanish in undergrad as required for all liberal arts majors, and two semesters of “Reading Proficiency in Spanish” as part of my master’s degree in grad school. I’m still not very good in Spanish, but I remember enough to pronounce it correctly and read some of it. Google Translate is much easier these days.
ReplyDeleteI only studied English, I read it with difficulty.... In my time it was difficult to go abroad in the summer to study a language.
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