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#195663
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Languages
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Very few people know this, but in the late 40s there was a major movement to make Esperanto the official language around the world. They even had set a date for the change, something like 1960. During this hype, my grandmother started learning it, she can speak it.

In case you don't know, Esperanto is a fabricated language, created in the XIX century to serve as a universal language. It is simple to learn, and a lot of enthusiasts speak it nowadays. There are several books written on it, and even a few films spoken in Esperanto. It's mostly used as a device to meet people, create groups, and stuff like that.
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#195511
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Languages
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I like different languages too. I find it easy to learn new languages, and by watching a foreign TV station, I start to be able to "know" what they are talking about and get the words.

Languages I know:

* Brazillian Portuguese. Obviously. Not totally familiar with some words and slangs from Portugal, but I can understand it too.

* English. Being absolutely fluent since I was about 13 - although I do make some mistakes now and then. I can speak even better than I can write - I'm not a good speller - I can detect almost every kind of accent, and I can imitate a british, southern american, indian, irish and australian accents. Since I work directly with americans and british, there are days in which I speak and write almost totally in english.

* Spanish, because it comes from the same origins as portuguese. Someone who speaks spanish can understand 75% of what is said in spanish, if it is said slowly without using local slang. And I know a lot of words that are different in spanish, so... by the way, did you know that the word for "weird" in portuguese is the word for "delicious" in spanish? Stuff like that.

* Japanese. I am currently learning japanese, although I am going on a very slow pace, since I've been very busy lately. I know hiragana and katakana completely, I can write about 50 kanji and read about 90 kanji, and I know some basic sentence structure. I can't have a full conversation in japanese, but I can slowly comunicate whatever I want in a broken, gramatically incorrect japanese.

After I learn japanese, I wanna try to learn French, and then it'll be enough.
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#195510
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Fear of Flying
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195510/action/topic#195510
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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
I just found your thread, Ric, and the funny thing is that I immediately thought: the first thing on my "to do" list once I'm in Brazil would be.. to take a flight!


Well, you would need to fly to get here, so...

What happens if I get up in the middle of the flight and yell "There are muthaf**ing snakes on the plane!", will the disguized security officers shoot me??
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#195270
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Fear of Flying
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195270/action/topic#195270
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Hey everyone, I'm back from a flying marathon that will resume next wednesday, 4 more flights in 3 days.

But somehow the plane didn't crash and I survived.

I didn't take any drugs for these last flights. I thought about it, but decided not to. Although I had taken one at home, just to see the effects, I thought it wouldn't be a wise thing to do, to take an unprescribed drug on a plane. So, I face it completely sobber, which was hard. I was really tense on the last flight (which landed about 80 minutes ago).

So I'm back! Until wednesday.
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#194343
Topic
Fear of Flying
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194343/action/topic#194343
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My next flight is monday morning, and it's funny how you guys mentioned taking drugs, because for the first time, I'm gonna try that. Some colleagues of mine told me about this medication for sleeping and drousiness that could help me relax - even sleep. Moved by curiosity, I've tried some the other night, only half a pill, and I must say that I didn't feel anything different, I got a bit sleepy but it was almost midnight so I don't know how much was due to the medication.

I have flown dozens of times, and every single time I feel the same, so it's not like experience makes it better for me. Seems to get worse at every time! Maybe because that, with each flight, I feel that the odds of something happening increases! I don't know...
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#194302
Topic
Fear of Flying
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194302/action/topic#194302
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Just thought I could create this thread to find people who have the same problem I have.

I have a job in which I constantly have to travel, half of the time by flying. It is not as glamourous or cool as it sounds, as air travel is not that expensive and even small projects have the budget for hiring contractors and consultants from other places. My problem with the constant traveling are: 1- Knowing about it literally one day before, and second and most important - at least to this thread - is my fear of flying.

As I am talking to you right now, I have no fear or anxiety, at least not much. I am fully aware of how safe it is, and how I am more likely to die taking a shower than by a plane accident, but it dosen't matter, it's something beyond myself. As soon as I get to the airport I start to get anxious, and at the airplane I get absolutely tense. 99% of my air travels don't last more than 2 hours, but it feels like it takes DAYS for the plane to land. But as soon as I can see the city I'll be landing on the distance, down there, then I get relaxed and I know things will be ok.

And I don't actually fear death, I just have a thing with heights and falling. If the airplane simply exploded, I would be fine with it!

So i wanted to know, how many here have that problem? Were you able to overcome it? How?