Hobbies?

chipperhead · 19 Sep 2011 at 17:45

Powerkiting then move onto Landboarding.

TheBrooder · 19 Sep 2011 at 17:47

Em Xx said:
Agreed. I'd love to learn French but don't know where to start.

Parle avec moi, ma chérie

D D Danneh · 19 Sep 2011 at 17:48

I took up electric guitar just before christmas last year, and I'm loving it, I bought a cheap starter kit incase I didn't like it, and since then I've upgraded guitar, amp, bought some pedals, joined a band, and I'm now looking at learning other instruments, I think I'd like to move on to piano and actually learn some music theory, I know a bit but I think learning the piano would actually improve my guitar too.

ristac · 19 Sep 2011 at 17:54

Something charitable, volunteer work maybe?

Pawnless Endgame · 19 Sep 2011 at 18:02

Indoors: collecting disco lights and programming sequences for them.
Outdoors: chasing fairgrounds and writing trip reports for them.

reilly · 19 Sep 2011 at 18:30

Currently on my list

Indoors: Pc games, tv, music, building things. (went home the other day and my mum and dad have got into jigsaws I got "dragged in" to help), Learn a language, study? (not a hobby will be rewarding), gym.
Outdoors: Mountain biking, going to visit places (I like week 4 day breaks to european cities), Rc planes (when crashed you can incoroprate this into "building things"

), visit cities in the uk for nights out and sleep in your/friends cars to save money, very fun if you get a group to go.

uknowist · 19 Sep 2011 at 19:29

Has anyone tried these rosetta stone products? wouldnt mind learning spanish but with my random shifts cant really goto nightschool

cosmos55 · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:45

outdoors: fishing , kayaking,jogging,hiking and volunteering.

indoors: build some websites, if your into music you could set up a home radio station though shoutcast, knitting?

kylew · 19 Sep 2011 at 20:52

AcidHell2 said:
sweet, I keep looking at reprap but never get round to it, also I keep wanting it to do slightly more. Before spending the money.

Me too, they look nice and are good in theory, but I really don't like the way they print, where you can see the "layers" on the finished model.

Abraxaz1 · 19 Sep 2011 at 21:28

uknowist said:
Has anyone tried these rosetta stone products? wouldnt mind learning spanish but with my random shifts cant really goto nightschool

there crap, avoid like the plague
you'd be better off going to night school, most have a flexible time scale or teacher. the teach yourself stuff is poor just turns you into a parrot

Em Xx · 19 Sep 2011 at 22:07

TheBrooder said:
Parle avec moi, ma chérie

Pouvez-vous parler le français couramment?

kylew · 20 Sep 2011 at 01:56

uknowist said:
Has anyone tried these rosetta stone products? wouldnt mind learning spanish but with my random shifts cant really goto nightschool

I've tried the Japanese one and found it to be very good. I like the way it doesn't teach you translations, but rather uses visual aids to teach you what phrases mean. Things along the lines of a kid playing with a ball, and then it'll say a phrase, then show you another image involving a ball and so on. You soon pick up what part of the phrase is about the ball.

I never bothered with the speaking part of it because I don't tend to struggle with pronunciation as long as I can clearly hear what's said.

Abraxaz1 said:
They're crap, avoid like the plague
you'd be better off going to night school, most have a flexible time scale or teacher. the teach yourself stuff is poor just turns you into a parrot

Is it a case of you don't like it, therefore = crap? Could you explain why you think it's crap instead of just saying it's crap as it's not particularly constructive.

Mark A · 20 Sep 2011 at 02:00

We were taught French in secondary school for like 3-4 years and all I know is bonjour

. Really found it hard to learn, mainly as I thought it was utterly pointless.

Emjeadea · 20 Sep 2011 at 02:01

Gaming for the win

uknowist · 20 Sep 2011 at 02:07

kylew said:
I've tried the Japanese one and found it to be very good. I like the way it doesn't teach you translations, but rather uses visual aids to teach you what phrases mean. Things along the lines of a kid playing with a ball, and then it'll say a phrase, then show you another image involving a ball and so on. You soon pick up what part of the phrase is about the ball.

I tried the free version earlier, small taster. Seemed alright at first but then thought wait, what am i learning here its like am i saying i want a coffe, im drinking coffe or that this is coffee, it was that kinda thing that i disliked about it, no english translations!! Hm il have to look into a flexible learning lessons somewhere I do also think its better to learn in like a classroom enviroment then have the teach yourself stuff for like revision than learning

kylew · 20 Sep 2011 at 02:13

uknowist said:
I tried the free version earlier, small taster. Seemed alright at first but then thought wait, what am i learning here its like am i saying i want a coffe, im drinking coffe or that this is coffee, it was that kinda thing that i disliked about it, no english translations!! Hm il have to look into a flexible learning lessons somewhere I do also think its better to learn in like a classroom enviroment then have the teach yourself stuff for like revision than learning

The lack of an English translation only makes it seem difficult initially. It's actually better to not learn from English translations, especially for certain languages where words are context sensitive.

With the coffee thing, when you continue on you will soon learn what each word in a sentence represents and effectively get the translation yourself. if you want translations from one language in to English, you may as well just get a translation dictionary.

uknowist · 20 Sep 2011 at 02:15

hmm i guess i did learn quickly from it, but it was like at one point they were showing a women drinking orange juice, a girl drinking water, a man drinking and a boy drinking etc. Then it said the phrase and its like sooo are they saying the girl is drinking water? or the girl is drinking? or the women is drinking orange juice or just the women is drinking? or isit some sort of mutation in what is being said... it was just that that confused me, they should do the way they show then at the end of the slide or section have the english translations. Just what I think anyway just so u can be sure of what your actually saying

kylew · 20 Sep 2011 at 02:56

uknowist said:
hmm i guess i did learn quickly from it, but it was like at one point they were showing a women drinking orange juice, a girl drinking water, a man drinking and a boy drinking etc. Then it said the phrase and its like sooo are they saying the girl is drinking water? or the girl is drinking? or the women is drinking orange juice or just the women is drinking? or isit some sort of mutation in what is being said... it was just that that confused me, they should do the way they show then at the end of the slide or section have the english translations. Just what I think anyway just so u can be sure of what you're actually saying

That's what I liked about it.

I think it becomes clear, like in your example that the phrase is to do with drinking, rather than the actual drink itself after a little while.

Dokinator · 20 Sep 2011 at 09:08

Airsoft all the way...

Hank_Marvin · 20 Sep 2011 at 09:31

I do like rosetta stone, they work pretty well although I do it for a month and then stop.

With a job a few other hobbies I find it hard to make time for it.

"Un nino una nina enebarca" spelling maybe not 100% but I said that so much I've never forgot it, well not all of it. The boy and girl are in a boat, all you need to get by in a spanish speaking country.