Happy Fourth of July!
 

For all of those in the USA, Happy Fourth of July! Anyone have some awesome stories about America?

My family helped out the union during the civil war by turning their grocery store into a make shift hospital. I am also related to a Union Brigadier General. <3

Go ahead and talk about American History to celebrate its birthday! :3

I was born on flag day?

Happy Independence Day to!

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@takumi
I love hetalia. chibitalia italy oh so cute.

Lol Hetaliaaaaa! <3

Um....I don't think I have any particular American stories or anything. As far as I know, I'm not really related to many respectable people (on my father's side, go figure. His family also helped take over Scotland, apparently....*roll eyes* ) My mom's family is German and came over just before WWII->Mom's grandfather was in the Kaiser's Guard apparently, so we think there must have been shtuff going on beforehand that they didn't agree with. When they came over, they only spoke English, so my mom knows NO German. I'm trying to bring it back. I think cultures are awesome.

lol my family's so foreign... I love 4th of July, though. Barbecue, Sweet Tea, Pie, Fireworks....mmm... =]

@HappyStarr: Whoa! That is super cool! <3 I love family history too. My mom's side came from Italy in the early 1900s right before Mussolini came into power. They saw what was going on and were like "f this" and they came to America. <3 We owned most of Livermore in California at some point too. We lost our Italian though, somewhere a long the line. No one speaks it anymore. D: But we keep the culture alive, aka REALLY GOOD FOOD. XD I gain soooo much weight over the holidays when I visit my mom's family.><

Oh and I'm also German! *high fives* Though I don't know much of my German origins other then a German married into the family, thus causing me to be German. :B My dads family has been in America since the mayflower landed, so I just say that my German side was too. >>; Heh. I wanna learn German, but I first have to finish Japanese. <3 I hope that I can learn German, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, and finish Japanese. <3 I like being able to speak multiple languages and I want to travel all across Europe some day to visit extended family. (I has family in Sweden, Italy, and Romania. <3 )


Oh, btw, I love your dragons on your signature. <3 Dragons are my favorite animals. :3

And yay for Hetalia!

Hetalia is the stuff. Who is your favorite character? I really like italy, canada, and germany. They are so funny. Nobody ever notices canada. xD

haha yay! Dragons are my fav, too. And that's some pretty cool family background! OH OH! Speaking of owning things, if you've heard of Guittard chocolate...Blanche Guittard was my great aunt or something like that. My family used to own a plantation, and we have a bunch of her drawings. But the plantation was burned down in WWII, along with the paperwork declaring ownership...so despite all of the locals being like "wtf that's theirs..." the other family took it over and we see nothing. >.> I always laugh now when I see Guittard chocolate.

German's not terribly hard to learn. The grammar is pretty set and the spelling makes sense (unlike what I know of French..ughhh...). I love the language..I just have a hard time remembering the articles and that totally throws off my entire sentence. XD I wanna learn tons more, though. So once I've got German cracked, I wanna get to Gaelic, Japanese, Korean, French (even though I HATE the spelling..), Welsh, Yiddish, Spanish (like..Spain spanish, not mexican...which is my stepfamily..), Hungarian, Icelandic, Hawaiian...and..well..ya know. Anything else I can squeeze in. If I can squeeze a Linguistics major in sometime after I get going with Animation, I totally will. Languages are amazing and sooo fascinating to me.

Languages are amazing. <3 Japanese is really easy to learn as long as you have a somewhat decent photographic memory. It's all pretty shapes and what not. The vowels are all the same as English except the i and e is switched. Its all really straightforward. Hm, German does seem like it would be easy to learn. A lot of words I can already guess cause they sound the same in English. Also, I like listening to German rock, so sometimes I can pick up stuff. I also listen to Japanese rock. <3

That sucks about your family though. D: I wish mine hadn't sold off all their land. >< We would've been in a much better place financially now. >>; And I have never heard about the chocolate. D:

haha look through the baking isles sometime at the grocery store. We buy the baking chocolate chips, since my mom likes to make fudge in winter. It's usually in a nice little box.

haha I remember back in my German 1 class, the tests on activities would be so great. "Ich spiele Basketball." A+! XD I knew it had to get harder....>.>

lol Does its say: You play basketball/I play basketball? Heh. My french one class was hard, so I stopped taking it. Then I took Japanese and it was so easy. I got As all three years in high school and high Bs in College.

haha awesome! Ya...It means "I play Basketball." See? Super easy. Yet somehow, even saying something like that to people will make them offended if they don't know German. It's like there's this weird mental block on people, and if they hear ONE word they don't recognize, they assume everything is in another language and that you must be insulting them. It's so ridiculous.

The only language I REALLY picked up when I took the sampler course that my mom made me take in 7th grade, even though I knew I wanted to take German, was German. I did fairly well with all of them, really. But German was so much easier and enjoyable. I don't think I ever got below a B in a German class. XD Now if I could just apply all those years of classes to real life, I'd be fluent in no time. T_T

Yay! Point for me on getting it right! XD

Yeah, it is really hard to keep a language or to really excel in it unless you speak it in real life with others. I have forgotten most of what I have learned of Japanese because I don't use it. My friend gets to go there for a year on an education abroad program so I am hoping to communicate with her in Japanese while she is there, like through skype.

People can get really offended by other languages. >< People are normally afraid of the unknown. So if They do not understand it then they are scared of it and will generally retaliate. Though I have heard some people say that German is just a rough language, so everything can sound mean,angry, or offensive if yelled really loudly. lol

Ya...I think it's all the ch and sch sounds and throwing sounds to the back of the throat. I never thought it was that harsh of a language, though. The propaganda certainly makes it sound so, though. I mean...ya, it's got stronger sounds, but..whatever. People would rather hear french or spanish.

Yeah. That could be it.

Oh! I know! Over here all of the people I knew in high school took Spanish because they "Live in California" so they have to know it. That is just bs. Like EVERYONE here learns Spanish so when I said I wanted to learn Japanese they were like "why? you aren't asian." D: People are just stupid sometimes. ><