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

[Lilisor]

Am si eu o problema! Fac "pregatire" cu 2 prietene si cu al meu la engleza si scopul meu principal e sa punem la punct gramatica, sa mai invete ceva vocabular si sa vad ce fac cu pronuntia atat de frantuzeasca mai ales a colegelor (IMG:style_emoticons/default/magindesc.gif) . Rugamintea mea e sa-mi recomande cineva carti mai acceptabile sau texte pentru ca se pare ca o carte pe care eu o consider piece of cake al meu nu intelege absolut nimic din ea...
Sar'mana in avans (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

[Fanny]

Rugamintea mea e sa-mi recomande cineva carti mai acceptabile sau texte pentru ca se pare ca o carte pe care eu o consider piece of cake al meu nu intelege absolut nimic din ea...

Nu mai lua in calcul texte din romane, pentru ca poate dificila traducerea din cauza frazelor ample si pline de metafore. O exprimare mai simplista, fara imbarligaturi, gasesti in stiri. Texte mai scurte gasesti pe site-urile televiziunilor de stiri romanesti (Realitatea Tv si Antena 3), iar cuvintele sunt uzuale, ca asta-i regula in tv. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Daca vrei sa-l chinuiesti putin da-i, din cand in cand, la tradus si-o reteta din cartea de bucate. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)