Let's speak English!, practise conversation with us Options

[walpurgik]

I kept thinking these days that most of us consider English as a second language, a privileged linguistic area from which we take words/phrases and "jargonize" our Romanian sometimes pushing it up to extremes. I also believe it to be nourishment to our minds as a lot of info provided by media comes to us through this means, the music we psychedelically apprehend and feel is mostly filtered through this language, our job which demands it more and more imperatively nowadays. It's a river of words which we fish sometimes to appease our hunger of expression, of more meaningful communication, caringly making use, but also carelessly making abuse of.
I thought we might create a virtual space here where we could share opinions, exercise our minds in other languages than our own, enhance our skills in writing and speaking-in-writing through colloquialisms. If this be taken enthusiastically, I suggest we have session of conversation in other languages as well (Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espagnol, so on and so forth), perhaps it suits us well to get to improve language skills with pleasure and along with friends than alone trying to decipher the mystery of grammar stuff or so.
We may talk about certain issues or let the flow of language follow its way, it's up to you.
As a topic starter I thought of demanding you about what you think of the following affirmation; feel free to state your point of view, discuss, argue, whatever.
Here it is: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pistolar.gif) It's a challenge!

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
-James A. Michener, attributed

[cristina_h]

I don't know, I keep thinking about society and the fact that man is a so called social animal. If we do live all together, so close, just a few metres one from another isn't it natural to learn or to copy what the others do, whether good or bad actions. If we are to look at very young children we see that every action is copied from their parents, only later they learn to act for themselves, and even then there are remnants of certain unspoken rules of how to behave, how to speak, what decisions to take. To my mind it's practically impossible not to imitate others, especially the ones that we admire, and in the same time it could be a good thing to follow a good example. Now does this mean that we lose something from our individuality, from our substance, from our soul? I guess the question arises , would we be anything without those people who surround us? Those children raised by wolves, adopted their way of life, and I think that as long as we live among people it is impossible not to copy others, and if we were to isolate ourselves from our fellow men we would lose exactly what makes us human.
A more recent problem is the influence that T.V and the internet has on people, especially children and adolescents, the fact that they learn and feel more attracted to the violent side of man. But this is a topic I would not like to tackle by myself (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)