Nora and Sophie....

[snaky]

Fucking mia go away! you can chat on your phone somewhere else

[serg69]

Mia couldn't even put her phone down even when they were eating and celebrating Lilu's B-day earlier.

Can't blame everyone wanting to spend time with Sofie. I would love to visit in her bedroom myself. lol

That was nice of Nora to take initiative with the cake. Lilu was very surprised and appreciative. Very sweet.

[Zwavelaar]

Fucking mia go away! you can chat on your phone somewhere else

Yeah, because she hasn't a room anymore, she is constantly disturbing the other ones. Especially Sofie, because that girl is too sweet to kick her out.

RLC, it's time to take action!  :)

[Guest Lorna Revo]

I am Russian so yes I am fluent in the language.

So perhaps you can help out with the other girls' real names....and whether or not  "Nora" v2 is (or has been) talking to Kiko..... many thanks in advance :-)

[komptreyes]

This might be a good reason to learn the Russian language. Their alphabet is closely related to the Greek alphabet. It's really not hard to learn. It is pronounced much like it is spelled - unlike English. Reading Russian is much easier to learn than English.

Most of the RLC tenants speak Russian with a few exceptions, like Adriana/Daniel, and Veronica/Lucas.

[serg69]

Actually Russian is one of the hardest languages to learn unless you speak one of the Slavic languages.

I wouldn't personally know that since I was born there and understand and speak fluently but I would say

besides Asian languages it's the hardest to pick up. English was easy for me to learn even though the alphabet is completely different. Anyways, attached is the article about this particular topic. Good luck!

http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/27-03-2012/120906-languages-0/

[komptreyes]

That's interesting because I can read Russian and Korean. I lived in Korea for 3 years and had a Korean wife for more than 14 years. I also had a Russian wife for 9 years, but don't know near as many words in Russian. Although, I would very much like to learn to speak Russian. I've gotta get to work on my Rosetta Stone and my other language CDs.

Like Russian, Korean is pronounced much the way that it is spelled, but it has a very different written system. It is very hard for Koreans to learn English because they try to use their written language to pronounce English words. That just doesn't work out right. The word 'stop' is just one syllable in English, but Koreans end up turning it into 3 syllables. Su-top-u

Their language (Hangul) uses a group of 2 or more characters to form a syllable, and their language has rules for which characters can be put together in one syllable. English has lots of sounds that cannot be duplicated in Hangul, so they have to try a crude approximation with multiple syllables.

This is the Korean word for 'stop'. It has 2 syllables and 5 characters. 정지

[Dth]

I hate the English language I was born and raised here.  Three ways to spell one word to,two, to.  I before C except after C  why? and others that do not make since to me.

[KarenKraft]

I hate the English language I was born and raised here.  Three ways to spell one word to,two, to.  I before C except after C  why? and others that do not make since to me.

Perhaps an edit:

"I do not understand the English language, although  I was born and partially educated here.  I find homophones, such as "to," "two," and "too," frustrating because I can never remember which is which.  It's unfair for a language to have words that sound the same, but have different meanings.  All words should have but one meaning, irrespective of context.  English spelling is unjust.  There was some rule about the letter "i" coming before the letter "e" when the two are side by side, but it was way too complicated, although I did get a "C" in that.

"For example, why does the medicine take the cankers away, but the Navy guys are enthusiastically making anchors aweigh? 

"And you know what?  Only a midget can smell a man's colon as he passes by.

The end."

[Dth]

Thank you for your edit.

[ausigreg]

English pronunciation test

While most of you non-native speakers of English speak English quite well, there is always room for improvement (of course, the same could be said for every person for any subject, but that is another matter). To that end, I'd like to offer you a poem. Once you've learned to correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

If you find it tough going, do not despair, you are not alone: Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language ... until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

English is tough stuff

Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

Tear in eye, your dress will tear.

So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain.

(Mind the latter, how it's written.)

Now I surely will not plague you

With such words as plaque and ague.

But be careful how you speak:

Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;

Cloven, oven, how and low,

Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,

Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,

Exiles, similes, and reviles;

Scholar, vicar, and cigar,

Solar, mica, war and far;

One, anemone, Balmoral,

Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;

Gertrude, German, wind and mind,

Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,

Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.

Blood and flood are not like food,

Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous, viscount, load and broad,

Toward, to forward, to reward.

And your pronunciation's OK

When you correctly say croquet,

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,

Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour

And enamour rhyme with hammer.

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,

Doll and roll and some and home.

Stranger does not rhyme with anger,

Neither does devour with clangour.

Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,

Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,

And then singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,

Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,

Nor does fury sound like bury.

Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.

Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.

Though the differences seem little,

We say actual but victual.

Refer does not rhyme with deafer.

Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

Mint, pint, senate and sedate;

Dull, bull, and George ate late.

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,

Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,

Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.

We say hallowed, but allowed,

People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

Mark the differences, moreover,

Between mover, cover, clover;

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,

Chalice, but police and lice;

Camel, constable, unstable,

Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,

Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.

Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,

Senator, spectator, mayor.

Tour, but our and succour, four.

Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

Sea, idea, Korea, area,

Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.

Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,

Dandelion and battalion.

Sally with ally, yea, ye,

Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.

Say aver, but ever, fever,

Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.

Heron, granary, canary.

Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.

Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Large, but target, gin, give, verging,

Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.

Ear, but earn and wear and tear

Do not rhyme with here but ere.

Seven is right, but so is even,

Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,

Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,

Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!

Is a paling stout and spikey?

Won't it make you lose your wits,

Writing groats and saying grits?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel:

Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,

Islington and Isle of Wight,

Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --

Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?

Hiccough has the sound of cup.

My advice is to give up!!!

[bigbear]

I hate the English language I was born and raised here.  Three ways to spell one word to,two, to.  I before C except after C  why? and others that do not make since to me.

Perhaps an edit:

"I do not understand the English language, although  I was born and partially educated here.  I find homophones, such as "to," "two," and "too," frustrating because I can never remember which is which.  It's unfair for a language to have words that sound the same, but have different meanings.  All words should have but one meaning, irrespective of context.  English spelling is unjust.  There was some rule about the letter "i" coming before the letter "e" when the two are side by side, but it was way too complicated, although I did get a "C" in that.

"For example, why does the medicine take the cankers away, but the Navy guys are enthusiastically making anchors aweigh? 

"And you know what?  Only a midget can smell a man's colon as he passes by.

The end."

It's "I" before "E", except before "C"... ;)