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Post by Joe on Jan 30, 2007 22:29:50 GMT -5
Hi Ginny
Thanks for the update on your schoolwork! I know you did well in French and Bio (your favs). I'm sure your math exam will go well! Do you have a lab class in Bio? I loved plant dissection.
My day went well. Work was good...some of us had Chinese food delivered! Today we had 5 cm of snow (2 inches); that's our biggest snowfall of the season. So I spent about an hour outside shoveling.
Cheers, Joe
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Post by garthmoe on Jan 30, 2007 22:38:26 GMT -5
Hi Ginny: Glad to see you're doing well in school. I taught high school French and Spanish for 31 years. Perhaps you should email Roseanne or Fiona and write in French. (You can use the miramusic web site for their email addresses.) They both took immersion French programs (all subjects taught in French) when they were in school. I don't know if they still go to school. Their lives seem to be filled up with concerts, travelling, and unfortunately, breaking up and forming new bands.
Good luck with the exams, Garth
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Post by afanoffiona on Jan 30, 2007 23:21:34 GMT -5
Lol, I thought about posting a message in Gaelic on their guestbook. However, I am not that good at Gaelic that I could construct a message yet. I am still working on idioms with linking verbs. Being a double major in Piano and Hebrew doesn't leave you much time for Gaelic as Hebrew is the hardest language I have ever studied next to Akkadian. I hope that I can go to a school with a Celtic Studies program next so that I can spend more time with Gaelic.
Anyway, I wouldn't doubt that Fiona probably knows French a whole lot better than I know Hebrew. I guess forign language study is a whole lot more rigerious in areas outside of the United States.
Anyway...
shalom adonai bakem le'olam amen.
God Bless, afanoffiona
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Post by faerie on Jan 30, 2007 23:42:04 GMT -5
I've always wanted to learn gaelic, but I;m not so good at learning languages. I took french for about 10 years but lost most of it now, and never knew it that great anyways, but gaelic would be cool, especially becasue then you could understand the songs, and be able to pronouce the words correctly. Garth, I think that they do school work, while on the road, and when they are at home they go to a private school I belevie, I remember someone asking about it at one of their concerts, but I dont remember exactly what they said. Good luck with your math exam Ginny!
Tia
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Post by Ginny on Jan 31, 2007 7:12:51 GMT -5
Hey guys thanks for the good lucks!
As for whether or not Rosie and Fiona still go to school-well Fiona does for sure, and don't believe it's a private school, seeing as I have two friends who go to her school...and neither one has ever mentioned it being a private school.
Cheers, Ginny
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Post by Joe on Jan 31, 2007 23:24:06 GMT -5
Hi afanoffiona... That's great that you are learning Hebrew. There's a show on the PAX network on TV that's on every night. Pastor Melissa Scott talks about scripture and Bible verses. She writes them on a huge whiteboard in several languages like Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. It's very interesting and a great enhancement to my RC faith. www.worldwideuniversitynetwork.com/index.htmlwww.pastormelissascott.com/
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Post by afanoffiona on Feb 4, 2007 15:47:53 GMT -5
Hey Joe! I will check out those links. I also have had to take Greek as well. In fact, I have had to have three years of Greek. This is because Hebrew studies involves the use of the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament predating the time of Christ. Here is a link to some of the stuff I am involved in. Both Roman Catholics and Scottish Presbyterians [of which I am] affirm the doctrine of the trinity. I don't know if you have ever heard of the Jehovah's Witnesses, but they are a group that denies the trinity, and believe that Christ is a created being. Most of them will point to the fact that John 1:1 does not have the article before the word "theos" [the word for God], and so they think they can translate it as "...the word was a god." Jehovah's Witnesses are now starting to say that, because theos is a count noun, it must be traslated as either definite ["the word was the God," which would say that Jesus and the father are the same], or indefinite "the word was a god," which is their translation]. I just recently ran into the work of Donald Hartley, who takes them to task for saying this. As a Catholic who is interested in this stuff, you may be interested in the article, although it is a bit technical: www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=1812Anyway, I just thought I would share something representational of what the non-musical side of my life is like. I have to read things like this all of the time. It is very, very interesting, though. Half my life is spent reading, and half my life is spent practicing. Although it is getting hard as I am getting to the point where I may have to give one of them up. God Bless, afanoffiona
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Post by faerie on Feb 4, 2007 19:55:38 GMT -5
That's cool, being able to learn all those languages, but you shouldn't have to give one up, I'm sure that you will be able to keep going with both. Good luck!
Tia
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Post by Joe on Feb 4, 2007 21:12:04 GMT -5
Hi afanoffiona,
Hopefully you'll keep studying both things. Learning different languages has always been an interest of mine. My knowledge of Greek only applies to the Greek alphabet and some astronomy terms. The translation of the Bible into different languages and indeed how the Bible has "changed" due to these translation is interesting. I'll have a look at that link.
Take care, Joe
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Post by elizarose on Feb 4, 2007 21:43:55 GMT -5
how many languages do you know afanoffiona? My father actually new 25. lol he used to say he knew enough languages to be pope, if he wasn't a jewish rabbi! Learning languages is such an amazing skill. People usually have a hard enough time with one. I would personally like to learn the Celtic languages. I feel it would totally connect me to my celtic heritage.
Good luck in all your studies afanoffiona, I wish I was back in school.
AnamCara
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Post by jason22 on Feb 5, 2007 0:34:32 GMT -5
Shalom, ElizaRose. Mazel Tov. Hava Nagila. Baruch hata.
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Post by elizarose on Feb 5, 2007 8:19:40 GMT -5
thank you jason 22 . I don't actually practice judiaism. My mother had me converted when I was a child to christianity. I don't practice Christianity either. I do believe however that I am ethnically jewish, I see them as a people like the celts, I just don't follow it's religion. From having a christian mother and a jewish father it taught me from a young age to respect many different religions and philosophies. Which is good. Children should grow up learning about other religions and what not so they know and understand them and respect them. They of course do not have to follow them. AnamCara
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Post by afanoffiona on Feb 5, 2007 22:02:14 GMT -5
Hey Jason!
Do you mean "Baruch 'atta" [you are blessed]?
God Bless, afanoffiona
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Post by afanoffiona on Feb 5, 2007 22:23:08 GMT -5
Hey Joe! I have the perfect thing for you. It is a book by William D. Mounce called Greek for the Rest of Us. The back cover says: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You don’t have to be a Greek student to understand biblical Greek. If you’d love to learn Greek so you can study your Bible better, but you can’t spare two years for college or seminary courses, then Greek for the Rest of Us is for you. Developed by renowned Greek teacher William Mounce, this revolutionary crash-course on “baby Greek†will acquaint you with the essentials of the language and deepen your understanding of God’s Word. You’ll gain a sound knowledge of basic Greek, and you’ll learn how to use tools that will add muscle to your Bible studies. In six sections, Greek for the Rest of Us will help you: · Recite the Greek alphabet · Read and pronounce Greek words · Learn the Greek noun and verbal system · Conduct Greek word studies · Decipher why translations are different · Read better commentaries Greek for the Rest of Us broadens your knowledge still further with an appendix on biblical Hebrew. It also includes a CD-ROM for your computer featuring the author’s class lectures in audio, combined with text and overheads. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is only $24.14 over at Amazon.com: www.amazon.com/Greek-Rest-Us-William-Mounce/dp/0310234859/sr=8-1/qid=1170731099/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4524827-3895254?ie=UTF8&s=books I can attest to how good a teacher William Mounce is. I worked through his first year grammar as my first Greek textbook, and I read it like a novel. He makes learning really interesting. In fact, we had one student who couldn't make heads or tails out of the grammar we currently use at school. He ended up getting Mounce's grammar, and is doing a fine job. Anyway, it is something I figured you might be interested in ;D. God Bless, afanoffiona
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Post by afanoffiona on Feb 6, 2007 22:13:09 GMT -5
Hey Elizarose! I know three languages and am learning two. Hebrew studies majors do have to know a lot of languages once you get into graduate school. My Greek teacher knows 12 languages. The bulk of these languages are mesopotamian languages which are very similar to each other [Akkadian, Sumerian, Hittite, etc]. I am working on the first of these languages, Akkadian, but it is terribly hard, and I have not done any work in it in a while. I am always afraid of forgetting things when I go back to it later. Anyway, I have a book here by a Hebrew scholar named Dr. Gleason Archer. Dr. Archer knew 30 languages fluently. I remember one of his students was doing graduate student teaching under him, and this student said that this man would sit and take his notes from the teachers meetings in Hittite. I can only hope to be half that good, just as I can only ever hope to be half as good a musician as Fiona. God Bless, afanoffiona
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