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probably the best way i can properly introduce myself is by drawing a picture.
hi there FA, we've known each other for a while but haven't really been close until recently. i thought i would make a sort of introduction thing!
i'm kheisa, 20 year old something or other bear from north carolina, USA. i'm hoping to make fursuits as a source of income in the not so distant future, once i've learnt as many techniques as possible! i also make plush animals and draw compulsively, and am still trying to figure out the keyword system FA has in place.
as of writing, i'm about halfway through my semester abroad in cardiff, wales, where i'm studying welsh. i took four (ish; it's complicated) years of japanese in middle school and high school, and i thought i'd forgotten all of it, but wouldn't you know, learning a new language is bringing it all back! if you speak either of those languages please feel free to use them to talk to me; i can't promise i'll understand everything but it's always good to practice!
i have joint problems in the form of arthritis, which i've had since i was three, and fibromyalgia, which i seem to be developing recently in my dominant wrist. it really makes crafting and drawing a LABOR of love, haha.
the three characters on the right are hanna, a young red panda/koala mix who only speaks welsh, ddafyd, a two-horned jacob sheep who speaks welsh and a smidgen of japanese, and môrgi, a sharkdog who fluently speaks japanese, welsh, and english. môrgi will eventually be my fursuiting mascot, assuming i can get to that point!
nice to meet you guys for real; hopefully you'll be seeing more of me than you were up 'til now. C: tell me about you now so i can get to know all you lovely people!!
hi there FA, we've known each other for a while but haven't really been close until recently. i thought i would make a sort of introduction thing!
i'm kheisa, 20 year old something or other bear from north carolina, USA. i'm hoping to make fursuits as a source of income in the not so distant future, once i've learnt as many techniques as possible! i also make plush animals and draw compulsively, and am still trying to figure out the keyword system FA has in place.
as of writing, i'm about halfway through my semester abroad in cardiff, wales, where i'm studying welsh. i took four (ish; it's complicated) years of japanese in middle school and high school, and i thought i'd forgotten all of it, but wouldn't you know, learning a new language is bringing it all back! if you speak either of those languages please feel free to use them to talk to me; i can't promise i'll understand everything but it's always good to practice!
i have joint problems in the form of arthritis, which i've had since i was three, and fibromyalgia, which i seem to be developing recently in my dominant wrist. it really makes crafting and drawing a LABOR of love, haha.
the three characters on the right are hanna, a young red panda/koala mix who only speaks welsh, ddafyd, a two-horned jacob sheep who speaks welsh and a smidgen of japanese, and môrgi, a sharkdog who fluently speaks japanese, welsh, and english. môrgi will eventually be my fursuiting mascot, assuming i can get to that point!
nice to meet you guys for real; hopefully you'll be seeing more of me than you were up 'til now. C: tell me about you now so i can get to know all you lovely people!!
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French was the first language other than English I was exposed to, and my brain just connected with it, then Arabic is just absolutely beautiful, and I always looked at those graceful letters and wondered how on earth they must be read. Now that I'm pursuing it, I'm seeing that there's a good demand for translators, Modern Standard Arabic is spoken by almost every middle eastern country. What about you and Welsh/Japanese?
it's great that you connected with french like that; i hear it's a very hard language to learn otherwise!! the first language i was exposed to other than english was spanish, but unfortunately my elementary school spanish classes were unbelievably repetitive and boring so i never really connected with it or liked it very much. and that's fantastic about arabic! i could never be a translator; i love reading/listening to and comprehending other languages, but the part of my brain devoted to second language PRODUCTION is unfortunately on holiday most of the time, haha. :P
i actually picked welsh for the same reason you chose to study arabic! i went on holiday to various parts of the UK last december and found myself looking at all the welsh words going "how the heck do you pronounce that?" like llyfrgell, prifysgol caerdydd, etc. turns out a lot of them are borrowed from english and just spelling changed to suit the welsh alphabet though, haha; ficer = vicar, tacsi = taxi, nyrs = nurse, ambiwlans = ambulance, siarc = shark, etc. it's a ridiculously useless language to learn considering only 20% of wales speaks more than a few words and that 20% is also fluent in english, but hey, it's fun!
as for japanese, well, i was about 13 when i decided to take it initially, and that was not only the height of my weeaboo phase, but also the height of my unself-aware hipster phase, and so japanese was the most obscure, least european language my school offered, plus the opportunity to understand subtitled anime better. xP the more i learnt it the less it was about anime, but that was at least a third of the initial choice.
i actually picked welsh for the same reason you chose to study arabic! i went on holiday to various parts of the UK last december and found myself looking at all the welsh words going "how the heck do you pronounce that?" like llyfrgell, prifysgol caerdydd, etc. turns out a lot of them are borrowed from english and just spelling changed to suit the welsh alphabet though, haha; ficer = vicar, tacsi = taxi, nyrs = nurse, ambiwlans = ambulance, siarc = shark, etc. it's a ridiculously useless language to learn considering only 20% of wales speaks more than a few words and that 20% is also fluent in english, but hey, it's fun!
as for japanese, well, i was about 13 when i decided to take it initially, and that was not only the height of my weeaboo phase, but also the height of my unself-aware hipster phase, and so japanese was the most obscure, least european language my school offered, plus the opportunity to understand subtitled anime better. xP the more i learnt it the less it was about anime, but that was at least a third of the initial choice.
No such thing as a useless language! I went to Thailand once and there was a language spoken only in two cities called borhao, and it was a mix of lao and vietnamese. I learned to speak a bit of that, and it blew the pants off the locals.... so 20%, you're set! I really loved reading the paragraph about the language, I find that intensely interesting. Like, REALLY interesting.
And as for your final paragraph: Wow... are you me? I think you're me, and we've just split into separate internet-based identities.
And as for your final paragraph: Wow... are you me? I think you're me, and we've just split into separate internet-based identities.
that's some hardcore language learning! color me impressed. did you know any lao or vietnamese before you went, or did you learn all of it on the spot?
yeah, welsh is pretty neat! it's gendered, which is a pain in the butt for me having only learnt english and japanese before now, and muddles things like môrgi and ddafyd's names since "môrgi" is the traditional welsh word for shark ("sea dog") but is a masculine word where my character is female, and vice-versa ddafyd the male sheep's name is a mix of "ddafad" which means sheep (a feminine word) and the name "dafydd"... and it also has mutations, which my instructor says are only found in celtic languages, so you can't just say "dw i eisiau paned o te" ("i want a cup of tea"); you have to mutate the direct object and make it "dw i eisiau paned o de" for some reason or else it's not grammatically correct. complicated, but lots of fun! LANGUAGES ARE COOL
haha, that's very possible; after all, we are both bears! :P how big are you on personality typing systems (MBTI, etc)?
yeah, welsh is pretty neat! it's gendered, which is a pain in the butt for me having only learnt english and japanese before now, and muddles things like môrgi and ddafyd's names since "môrgi" is the traditional welsh word for shark ("sea dog") but is a masculine word where my character is female, and vice-versa ddafyd the male sheep's name is a mix of "ddafad" which means sheep (a feminine word) and the name "dafydd"... and it also has mutations, which my instructor says are only found in celtic languages, so you can't just say "dw i eisiau paned o te" ("i want a cup of tea"); you have to mutate the direct object and make it "dw i eisiau paned o de" for some reason or else it's not grammatically correct. complicated, but lots of fun! LANGUAGES ARE COOL
haha, that's very possible; after all, we are both bears! :P how big are you on personality typing systems (MBTI, etc)?
I spoke Thai, which is essentially Lao, but I learned the Borhao from all the workers at my hotel, and I only learned enough to order at a restaurant, haha, maybe three or four phrases. My Thai has essentially dissolved since I left. ;w;
Wow that's intense! Gotta make you feel cool when you talk to people about it. I see all those words you're typing and I too just think... R-really? How do you pronounce those! Arabic, though it seems would be complicated, is surprisingly easy. Its gender rules are simple and don't affect pronunciation, and it only has THREE tenses! (present, future, past). The difficulty in Arabic is writing, because grammatical rules are applied on the letter themselves (For instance, there are markers for direct/indirect objects, possessive nouns, subjects etc.) And each letter of the alphabet connects to the other letters differently.
And as for personality tests, I took one back in the day and I can't recall what I was categorized into...
Say Kheisa, do you have a skype, or anything like?
Wow that's intense! Gotta make you feel cool when you talk to people about it. I see all those words you're typing and I too just think... R-really? How do you pronounce those! Arabic, though it seems would be complicated, is surprisingly easy. Its gender rules are simple and don't affect pronunciation, and it only has THREE tenses! (present, future, past). The difficulty in Arabic is writing, because grammatical rules are applied on the letter themselves (For instance, there are markers for direct/indirect objects, possessive nouns, subjects etc.) And each letter of the alphabet connects to the other letters differently.
And as for personality tests, I took one back in the day and I can't recall what I was categorized into...
Say Kheisa, do you have a skype, or anything like?
arabic sounds really interesting! the idea of marking direct/indirect objects etc on the letters rather than elsewhere sounds very logical to me, almost like writing in code. :') that's part of why i love japanese too; it's incredibly logical and the sentence structures just make sense to me in a way even sentences in english don't, haha. if only kanji wasn't so infinite and difficult to learn i could have continued japanese forever!
hmm, so maybe not the EXACT same person then, but surely very similar! personality typing is something i very much like because it allows me to introspect more than i normally would, and when i understand my patterns i can try to change the ones i don't like (e.g. social anxiety, i've nearly rid myself of that), and i also find that the more i understand myself the more i understand other people! it's a lot of fun for me, but maybe not for everyone, haha.
i do, ahh, technically? i don't usually give it out though because i worry that if i add someone there they'll feel like i'm ignoring them if i'm online but not chatting ;_; i'm a super low-maintenance friend and often forget that not everybody feels like a friendship can be maintained on a conversation a month or less. but yeah, if you don't mind any of that then my username is pookaburra! i'm not sure what kind of info will be listed in the search but my display name is "special k" right now and my icon thing is my houndour fursuit.
hmm, so maybe not the EXACT same person then, but surely very similar! personality typing is something i very much like because it allows me to introspect more than i normally would, and when i understand my patterns i can try to change the ones i don't like (e.g. social anxiety, i've nearly rid myself of that), and i also find that the more i understand myself the more i understand other people! it's a lot of fun for me, but maybe not for everyone, haha.
i do, ahh, technically? i don't usually give it out though because i worry that if i add someone there they'll feel like i'm ignoring them if i'm online but not chatting ;_; i'm a super low-maintenance friend and often forget that not everybody feels like a friendship can be maintained on a conversation a month or less. but yeah, if you don't mind any of that then my username is pookaburra! i'm not sure what kind of info will be listed in the search but my display name is "special k" right now and my icon thing is my houndour fursuit.
THANKS MAN IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE. jacob sheep are pretty great, ngl, but mostly the reason ddafyd is one is so i could be like "well, he COULD have had four horns... but he doesn't, because he's not that cool at all," haha. i'm also hella fond of valais blacknose, herdwicks, hebrideans, and exmoor horns!
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