It's not Spanish....

And now we know why I post here in English and not Hebrew! There are more than enough sites here to post at in Hebrew, but it makes absolutely no sense to post here in any language other than English, even though there have been times when I've wondered if English is understood by some of the people who read and post here. But that's another whole topic. What ever happened to reading comprehension?

And I appreciate that, though I can also read a bit of Hebrew...My first Bat Mitzvah was very moving! I loved the canting. It is canting, right? What I found funny was that all the people in the temple(synagogue?) Talked continuously as if the party had alrady started!!!

for those that are foreign language challenged. Paste the website into the translator at:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Not the greatest but at least you can see what is written.

PS: Love Hebrew but I mangle that language like every other one I have studied.

My above comment was only to agree with you about using the prevalent language at TH.
Hebrew is a truly insane language which is probably one of the reasons I like it so much.
I learned to read it at around 10 years old, but only started understanding what I read at 21. I pretty much skipped the stage of reading with 'nikud'(vowels) and went straight to regular newspapers. I live 95% of my life in Hebrew now, so sometimes English escapes me for a few moments. I am one of the very few native English speakers here who is more comfortable in Hebrew than English. So many just refused to put the effort into learning Hebrew well enough to function in it. They expect everyone to use English with them. The only people I will speak English to are those for whom it is their first language or at least as good as mine. That carries the weight of law with me!
I think you might have picked on one of the reasons we are in so much trouble these days. No one is paying attention to their prayers-or very few are.

I am pleased to say that one thing I am not is language challenged. The joke at my last job was that I could sign anyone from any country into the hotel in their language! I grew up with English and Maine Cannuk French and took several years of German in High School.
Thing about learning a language is that it must be used for it to stick.
I was in a camera shop about 20 years ago and heard the owner speaking a very familiar French. I stopped at the door, turned around and asked in very loud English where that Cannuk French was from. There are so few places that speak that particular French that he had to be from New England. He tried to tell me that he was from a very small town that he was sure I'd never heard of. Funny, Brunswick and Presque Isle are both in Maine! We had many a laugh over that. After 16 years of speaking to each other in Hebrew, it turned out that we are from the same State!

I've got a friend who lives in Portage. And I would Love to get there...when I do Google earth, all that green and blue makes me homesick! Makes me want to find a clearing in the forest on a night with a full moon...then wait for the stars...up there,it feels like you can reach out and touch them.

I think you mean Portland? My mom grew up there and it's a very nice city;if somewhat top heavy with liberals.
A friend of mine was given a very small island in Casco Bay by her grandfather and we (the terrible ten) used to camp out there for weeks at time. The night sky was truly incredible with no lights from civilization to mess things up.
Raging Bunny lives at the end of nowhere in Nevada and you really feel like you can just pick the stars right out of the sky from her front garden. I was there last year and wanted to spend the whole night right there, but she had to go to work and the gal who was with me wanted to go to bed. I was transfixed.

it's Arostook(sp?)County and he is about two miles from Portage Lake...Presque Isle is the closest airport if I were to fly I think...Portland is about 300 miles. I could be mistaken...
There is nothing like the skies in Maine at night,though!! I always think of the "starry, starry night..." song and Maine.

I don't know Aroostook County too well, but I'm sure it's there. It would be a great place to visit and I hope I'll be get down there next trip.
Vincent by Don McClean who lives in Maine. Listen to Castles In The Air. I'm convinced that it's about leaving the big city to live in Maine. Little does he know that he actually lives in the CD player in my car. I will not listen to anything else, and can drive as long as he's singing to me. That song lead me to that CD.

The world really is so small! That and American Pie are two classics that are sung by all when we travel to Austria once a year to ski. I get pangs for the memories!

Isn't it just? Vincent had been playing on the radio late at night a lot a few years ago, and I decided that I had to have. Not knowing the correct name of the song I went looking for Starry Starry Night and my CD store guy had no idea what I meant so I called Teadrinker who has vast stores of useless knowledge and got the correct name from her. At the time I had no idea who Don McClean was. A while later I bought my first car in over 16 years and that CD moved into the CD player. I mentioned it to my brother and he told me that Don McClean lives in Maine.That put a whole new twist on Castles In The Air. I'm on my third copy of the CD. I buy a new one when I switch cars. Anyone who goes on a long trip with me ends up knowing that whole CD by heart, even Israelis who don't know a word of English.

The thing about music is that language and singing have no barrier-unless you need to converse...I was amazed at Celine Dion singing the Beauty and the Beast song and she spoke French! In Austria, all you hear in a dancing scene is Western music and EVERYBODY sings!

Music transcends language barriers.

I grew up with a similar French (Saranac Lake NY) being spoken around. I took Russian in school then French. Was in Germany for 8 years and traveled to many areas like Italy, Belgium, Holland, even the Middle East and Far East. I managed to mangle all those languages although I could understand them pretty well and read them also, just had a problem with remembering how to conjugate verbs, etc. Now I am learning to mangle Greek and Hebrew although the Hebrew seems to speak to me. My best German was the first I learned, Ein gross bier bitte! (while holding up my thumb) :)