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Animenewbie
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Registration Date: 10.24.10
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Hello everyone! So I've been lurking your threads for a while now, and decided to register, so I might as well make a topic so you guys can read more about me (:
I live up here in the cold Scandinavia dreaming of a warm winter *sigh*. I'm a 17 year old boy and I failed my math exam today.
I recently became intrested of anime (mainly Ghibli ^_^) even though I've seen some animes in the past year. Last week i got an anime rampage and watched quite a lot of schtuff. As what comes for manga or any anime series i have not yet much interest in. Only ever read 'dragon ball' a good five years back (must admit though that they are the best "comic" style thing I've read ever)
And the amount of books I've read has skyrocketjumped in the past month, the reason will remain a mystery..for now! (not completely sure of it myself). It really doesn't matter much what I read, because everything is good in my eyes (: Now when i think about it I've probably only read less than 20 books willingly in the past 15 years. Shame on me!
I also like drawing stuff even though I'm terrible at it (picking up all art classes in my school because It's so fun). might upload some of my works when the time is right. Also i will get a tablet soon so I can start drawing with photoshop (:
And please note that English is my third language so It's not superb! I wish I would have picked up anime year ago. I definitely would have assigned for some Japanese courses last year, but i guess It's too late now ):
I'll get myself some sort of signature and a better avatar soon. And hmm, not much else to say..but I'll definitely stay around for a good while! Feel free to ask any questions about me, my country or anything else! (:
EDIT: edited a load of Typo's, my English teacher says I'm really good at them
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jusomekid
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Hello Animenewb!
Welcome! Hope you enjoy discovering all the ghibli films!
Awesomeness! But remember, education first! Then after you're done with that, you can watch 
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Animenewbie
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Might as well specify the anime and Ghibli I've watched so far. Heres a list:
Princess Mononoke
Nausicaa Valley of the Wind
Porco rosso
Laputa: castle in the sky
Howl's moving castle
Kiki's Delivery service
Spirited away
Tales from earthsea
Whisper of Heart
My Neighbor Totoro
The girl who leapt trough time
Summer war (not finished yet)
And that's all I think!
EDIT: I dont know if you guys have noticed but in my opinion most trailers in youtube doesn't really make justice to the movies. I've had serious doubts of many films based on their trailers but then after watching, I've been stunned my the awe of the film! And so far not a single anime have let me down! A bit unsatisfied sure but thats unavoidable with me wanting all the perfect endings ^_^
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Welcome! From what I see, your English is very good, really, so don't worry about that. ^.^ Glad you enjoy the Ghibli films so much~ Hope you'll be here to stay.
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laazd,
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hello & welcome , animenewbie !
i'm pretty new as well and i'm loving this place.
you're english is awesome i would have thought it was
your first language. what other languages do you speak?
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Animenewbie
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husky & laazd:
Yes, my native language is Finnish, but my second language is not Russian (not a bad guess) but Swedish, since it's one of the two official languages in Finland. My Swedish would be weaker than my English if I wouldn't have gone to a Swedish school for 9 years. I studied Spanish too for 2 years but it was too tough to study 4 languages at the same time so I gave that up.
Thanks for all the welcomes!
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arren18
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Aha, I thought it might be Swedish, as I understand there is a large population of Swedes in Finland.
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Kazegami
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Originally posted by arren18
Aha, I thought it might be Swedish, as I understand there is a large population of Swedes in Finland.
This may seem random and slightly off-topic but have you been reading Humon's comics? On DA? >.>
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arren18
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quote:
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Originally posted by arren18
Aha, I thought it might be Swedish, as I understand there is a large population of Swedes in Finland.
This may seem random and slightly off-topic but have you been reading Humon's comics? On DA? >.>
Haha, I have actually. 
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Humon?
Welcome to the taern, belated as it is. And don't worry about your english. Believe it or not, the people most fluent in English are not the native speakers themselves 
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Animenewbie
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Humon is a vertical comic which is starred by countries as "persons" (mainly Scandinavia, but U.S.A and some northern European countries as well) with one male and one female from all countries. The jokes are often about some stereotypes or historical events.
Haven't watched many of them myself though
And yeah there's roughly 340.000 (out of 5,3 million) Finns who speak Swedish as their native language (not Swedes though).
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fenkashi
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Welcome!
I dunno about fluency but non-native English speakers have really good grammar. As in they know rules that we should know but disregard in favour of intuition.
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Lol, okay. The thing is if you speak in formal English or Spanish, or whatever...you're pegged as an outsider. xD So it's questionable how useful an understanding of the intricacies of a language really is in everyday conversations.
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Lol, okay. The thing is if you speak in formal English or Spanish, or whatever...you're pegged as an outsider. xD So it's questionable how useful an understanding of the intricacies of a language really is in everyday conversations.
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Hey, welcome to the Tavern!
And your English is very, very, very good. I am extremely impressed. Extremely impressed. XD
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Kemi
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Tervetuloa AnimeNB! 
I hope you enjoy the forum, I was always interested in Finland somehow (see my nickname here), I like the music of the bands out there and your beautiful nature, but the coldness must be bad sometimes I guess..
although were I live it can be cold as well, in the darkest winter period.
I wish you all the luck with discovering your interests more and keep drawing and making beautiful signatures like that! I think it is truly amazing.
Personally I haven't watched much other animé besides Ghibli as well, since they're hard to get here and I recently got my own laptop so I can watch some, but I don't know..Ghibli touches me more I guess..and perhaps you as well.
Have a nice time and see you around!
-Kemi
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