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  1. aye aye me hearty.

    I took time out from plundering and pillaging to peruse this parchment.

    As a pegleg pirate partying precariously on the poopdeck in my purple pantalooms.

    I ponder how many perverted peadophiles pay pennance.

    Keep the stories short or you will have theses longwinded scurvy ridden shipmates

    walking the plank

  2. I for one would love all participants to write in English as that is the only language that I know. Some people are asking non English writers to translate before sending transcripts. Most of you are well aware that something written in another language, does not always come across the same as when transferred to English. Meanings can get confusing. Just my two bobs worth.

  3. Ausigreg, thanks for the really great pronunciation test - it´s even better than Fox in Socks, children´s favourite! I just cannot recall what this test has to do with the RLC all-girls apartrment.

    To learn English you have to start by reading a book called Green Eggs and Ham.  LOL

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    It has nothing to do with it. Just like this site. It doesnt allow links to be veiwed So I wanted to give you boys an education in the best language in the world/quote]

  4. 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!!!

  5. RLC is one of the best sites I've come across so far. And Camcaps is a great supporter base. All comments are interesting. The whinges still have a right to whinge, but I just take them with a grain of salt (just like the ones who demand the girls to take the clothes off in chatrooms) and move on the next one. And thanks to those who share their Photos and Videos. So does anyone know of any sites similar to RLC. Im not looking for Chatrooms.

  6. yo diría que están en la zona conocida como el ensanche de Barcelona , los tres muy juntos , isabel y marcelo hablaban el otro día de un restaurante a cinco manzanas de su casa situado en avenida diagonal ,

    nora y kiko juraría que están muy cerca la mitad de Barcelona hacia el mar , y alma y estefan no sabria decir

    pero no muy lejos , pero los situó un poco mas retirados de los otros dos .

    si alguien puede traducirlo se lo agradecería .

    I would say that they are in the area known as the ensanche of Barcelona, all three very together, Isabella and marcelo spoke the other day of a restaurant five blocks from his house located in diagonal Avenue,

    Nora and kiko would swear that they are very close to half of Barcelona towards the sea, and soul and estefan not say

    but not very far, but placed them a little more removed from the other two.

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