Thursday, December 14, 2006
Satellite TV in the Language Lab
One of my favorite but most underused aspects of the language lab is the Satellite TV. For me, watching TV from a foreign country is such a great way to learn the culture and you usually have a context for the language too. When we were in Korea for just one night on a recent trip to the Philippines, we were stuck at a hotel out by the airport, but I did get to watch Korean television and that gave me sense of being there even more than physically being there since airports are the same no matter where you go, so are airport hotels. ANyway, it's also a great way to keep up with the news and see it from another country's perspective.
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Can we watch Battlestar Galactica in the lab, if we watch it in a foreign language?
You loser!!
Now that you are a blogger, you will be needing a copy of these (from thepoorman.net)
Rules of Blogfighting
What fun! I want to have a weblog rivalry of my own! If anyone out there would like to start a nerd fight with me, please let know by private email. I propose the following rules:
1) The fight must be instigated by the less-prestigious weblog, as determined by the Weblog Ecosystem or some equivalent measure. In the event of a tie, the fight starter will be whoever has the lower processor speed.
2) The initial volley must express great offense at a recent posting, at the profound ignorance and hypocrisy that this post exposes, and how it is weblog posts just like that one which force God to kill puppies even though He loves them very much.
3) Succeeding posts will parry the opponent's charges by deliberately misunderstanding them, and will launch counter-charges based on the opponent's word choice.
4) All sarcasm must be graceless, confused, and leaden, and must be followed by the phrase "and in case you're too stupid to figure it out, I'm being sarcastic!"
5) Goodwin's Law will be in effect until the fourth post (i.e. the second rebuttal), after which the first person who fails to include the words "Hitler" or "Nazi" in every sentence will be declared a Communist pedophile with a weakness for Phil Collins-era Genesis.
6) The loser must seethe for no fewer than two weeks, during which time he or she must check the winner's weblog every day and burn with jealously. After two weeks, the loser may begin petty sniping on his weblog. The winner is under no obligation to respond, although he may create a link to the loser's weblog with an amusingly offensive name.
Let's get it on!
I sure get lots of comments
I sure get lots of comments
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