Nice site!

My thanks to vagabonzo and llandewi for their language suggestions.  I would like very much to be able to do that but, unfortunately, it's not possible.

In the United States, we don't often have occasion to use a foreign language unless we are in import/export or maybe travel.  I had Spanish in Grammar School, but I've had no reason to use it unless I want to eavesdrop (listen secretly) on Puerto Ricans here.  They usually speak much better English than I Spanish so it's pointless to try to struggle through a conversation in Spanish when English would be easier for both.

I spent 29 months as a soldier in Germany and once spoke fairly decent German.  A couple of years later, I hitch-hiked and rode a bicycle through Europe for almost a year.  For about 3 months of that I lived in Stuttgart.  While there, I started learning Italian and Spanish through “Dreizig Stunden Italienisch"  and “Spanisch in Dreizig Stunden."   I did this so I wouldn't forget German while learning the others.  Needless to say, I didn't learn that much in this way, because, after leaving Stuttgart, I was traveling most of the time and getting no opportunity to converse.

In the last 40 years, I have had no opportunity to converse in any other language but English.  As a result, I've forgotten most of my German.  I discovered a German blog “Alles Schall und Rauch."   I liked what I could understand of it and started to try to relearn German.  I realized that I just didn't have time for that.  I tried a couple of translators, but found I had to spend almost as much time translating the translations.  If I hadn't had some grounding in German, I would have thought the site gibberish (nonsense).  For that reason, I'm not putting a translator on my blogs.

Llandewi, I think this is the most appropriate place to ask for readers (visitors).  Isn't that the idea of asking for flags?  If the only purpose is to say, “ha, ha, I've got more flags than you, then I think there are some very childish people here.  As to starting a thread in another forum, what topic should I use?  It would seem a very long topic would be needed to cover everything in my blogs.  Of course, I could just make up topics to cover each, but that would make me too much like some of the spammers that show up here from time to time, just trying to get more visitors because they are making money off of it.  I thank you for the suggestion, but I'll pass on it for now.  BTW, I remember your site from a long time ago.  It's a good one, especially for transportation hobbiests.

Last edited by PhreedomPhan (January 20, 2011 10:00 pm)

visited you!

http://ameblo.jp/kamo1126/

kamo1126

I tried translating a portion of your site with IM Translator, but it came out nonsense.

I was in Tokyo for a couple of days about 44 years ago.