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Jek Jek Roo

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  1. I would be happy to help, but I think Kirkreng is a half German and one and a half person in total so he'd be better suited to the task... if he volunteers. If not, I would be happy to practise my German myself but it's not that great. I should be able to hold my own as long as it stays simple, though.

     

    If anyone knows a good way or place to start with Polish, I would appreciate that too. I really have to start at the beginning, though. Any simple booklets/mini-dictionaries or anything of the sort for foreigners? I'll probably search through some online bookshops...

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  2. Hm...well if there's anyone who knows German and is feeling fairly friendly and helpful it would be nice to have someone to try and talk simple German to (and patient enough with my mistakes :P ). I can say simple things like asking how people are, saying how I am, asking and talking about the weather, talking about the time, that's about it for now. >-<

    same...

  3. For those of you who speak/type in a language different to your native language, do you ever have to resort to something like Google Translate to find the right word/phrase to say, or to find out what the person you are talking to is saying? Or do you not talk to anyone in another language until you're confident? I should say at this point that I don't have really have anyone to practice German with as I know don't know much and it would be pretty embarrassing to make mistakes. In fact I feel I would be disrespectful in some way (making a mistake trying to talk in another's language), as silly as that sounds. >-<

    I tend to use Google Translate or just Google to double check whatever I'm writing so I don't sound too stupid amongst all these intelligent people.

     

    I don't think making mistakes is disrespectful. As long as people understand you they should be satisfied. In German though it is disrespectful to use the singular second person when talking to a complete stranger. Like "Was heißt du?" is disrespectful but "Was heißen Sie?" isn't.

     

    I really stop worried about that, really.

  4. I feel a huge respect for non polish people that speaks this lagnguage. I really do.

     

    Anyway... I can't understand that in German you have the past Perfect and Imperfect. The first one you use mostly in speaking and the second one in writing stories ect. Perfect is when you say: Ich bin ins Krankenhaus gegangen oder sie hat sein violin verloren. I've got this at school. Und das Imperfect ist wenn schribst du: Ich war, du schlief, sie solltet, richtig?

  5. 1378 THIS:

     

    anuary–December

    March – In England, John Wycliffe tries to promote his ideas for Catholic reform by laying his theses before parliament and making them public in a tract. He is subsequently summoned before Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon of Sudbury, at the episcopal palace at Lambeth to defend his actions.

    April 9 – Following the death of Pope Gregory XI and riots in Rome calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who are mostly French, elect Pope Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano, Archbishop of Bari) as the 202nd Pope.

    July – Revolt of the Ciompi – discontent wool carders briefly take over the government of Florence. For the first time, a European government represents all social classes.

    August 4 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti succeeds his father, Galeazzo II Visconti, as ruler of Milan.

    September – A contract is set up between Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton and the mason Johan Lewyn for the construction of Bolton Castle.

    September 20 – Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at Fondi and elect Clement VII as antipope and establish a rival papal court at Avignon. This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the Western Schism.

    November 10 – Estimated appearance date of Halley's Comet.

    November 29 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, dies in Prague. He is succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus as King of Bohemia but the office of Holy Roman Emperor falls into abeyance until Charles's son Sigismund is crowned in 1433.

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    Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV visits his nephew Charles V of France to publicly celebrate the friendship between their two nations.

    The Papacy makes a permanent move back from Avignon to Rome, ending the Avignon Papacy.

    France, Aragon, Castile and León, Cyprus, Burgundy, Savoy, Naples and Scotland choose to recognise Antipope Clement VII. Denmark, England, Flanders, the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, northern Italy, Ireland, Norway, Poland and Sweden continue to recognise Pope Urban VI.

    Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow & Vladimir resists a small invasion by the Mongol Blue Horde.

    Tokhtamysh dethrones Timur Malik as Khan of the White Horde.

    Kara Osman establishes the Turkomans of the White Sheep dynasty at Diyarbakır in present-day southeast Turkey.

    The Turks capture the town of Ihtiman in west Bulgaria.

    Uskhal Khan succeeds his father, Biligtü Khan, as ruler of the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia.

    Balša II succeeds his father, Durađ I, as ruler of Zeta (now Montenegro).

    Tai Bian succeeds Zhao Bing Fa as King of Mong Mao (now northern Myanmar).

    Da'ud Shah succeeds his assassinated nephew, Aladdin Mujahid Shah, as Bahmani Sultan in present-day southern India. Da'ud Shah is assassinated in the same year and is succeeded by Mohammed Shah II.

    Sa'im al-Dahr is hanged for blowing the nose off the Sphinx.

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