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Thanks for your help 12310bch! Looking forward to it 
slang is entirely part a language (I'm not talking only about swearings, but informal words, idoms, phrases). When I teach English, I always add some room for slang in most of lessons. Because I guess that without knowing slang, you just go past a big part of a language. Whatever the language, whether it's your mother tongue or a foreign one, you always learn academic language at school but use other words mostly when speaking. That's why I consider it's important to teach beyond formal/academic language. And it's also a good thing when students get bored : teach them one or two slang words and you can see their eyes pop up, it's good for catching their attention back to the course
Hey I'm glad to see some people here speak a little bit of froggie language hehe!
Did you know that, when the United States got independent and had to vote for a national language, English was elected as the federal language beating French by just a little bunch of votes? Ah! I wonder what it would have been instead! But I'm glad English is the USA's national language because I would have no job right now, aha!!
About the French chicks, I'll make a call or put an ad for you Tramp Steamer - but I don't guarantee it'll work out!
Quatsch83, my favorite game is 9-ball. It's the game I play the best and feel the most comfortable at playing. But I also enjoy 10-ball and 8-ball. I had some difficulty with 8-ball in the past, because I kept the stroke (long storke) I use for rotation games, and I was also confused with planning the right series of balls to make. But since a couple of months I've worked alot on drills involving a shorter, softer stroke to make small-path position play in a given area. And since then, I feel pretty much better at 8-ball and find it way easier than 9-ball. It's amazing how training on drills can change your play. Now at 8-ball, I don't make my brains smoke as before, making a plan of attack looks strangely obvious to me, because I got the right stroke for area position play. I'd also like to improve my play at 14.1 continuous. Unfortunately, nobody here really knows about this game, so I have no one to play, except my coach but he's moved now. I will have more opportunities to play this awsome game with him when I join his club next season. I should train this game more, but I prefer waiting until I get more free time to practice drills dedicated to this game.
slang is entirely part a language (I'm not talking only about swearings, but informal words, idoms, phrases). When I teach English, I always add some room for slang in most of lessons. Because I guess that without knowing slang, you just go past a big part of a language. Whatever the language, whether it's your mother tongue or a foreign one, you always learn academic language at school but use other words mostly when speaking. That's why I consider it's important to teach beyond formal/academic language. And it's also a good thing when students get bored : teach them one or two slang words and you can see their eyes pop up, it's good for catching their attention back to the course Hey I'm glad to see some people here speak a little bit of froggie language hehe!
Did you know that, when the United States got independent and had to vote for a national language, English was elected as the federal language beating French by just a little bunch of votes? Ah! I wonder what it would have been instead! But I'm glad English is the USA's national language because I would have no job right now, aha!! About the French chicks, I'll make a call or put an ad for you Tramp Steamer - but I don't guarantee it'll work out!
Quatsch83, my favorite game is 9-ball. It's the game I play the best and feel the most comfortable at playing. But I also enjoy 10-ball and 8-ball. I had some difficulty with 8-ball in the past, because I kept the stroke (long storke) I use for rotation games, and I was also confused with planning the right series of balls to make. But since a couple of months I've worked alot on drills involving a shorter, softer stroke to make small-path position play in a given area. And since then, I feel pretty much better at 8-ball and find it way easier than 9-ball. It's amazing how training on drills can change your play. Now at 8-ball, I don't make my brains smoke as before, making a plan of attack looks strangely obvious to me, because I got the right stroke for area position play. I'd also like to improve my play at 14.1 continuous. Unfortunately, nobody here really knows about this game, so I have no one to play, except my coach but he's moved now. I will have more opportunities to play this awsome game with him when I join his club next season. I should train this game more, but I prefer waiting until I get more free time to practice drills dedicated to this game.
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