Comments on: The Soap Opera Date

By: Twanna A Hines funkybrownchick

Twanna A Hines funkybrownchick — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:43:13 +0000

Ik kan het wel lezen en begrijpen. ;) I haven't lived in Holland for many many years. (Ik spreek nog steeds Nederlands hoor … maar nu maak ik zoooo veel grammaticale fouten en “spelling errors.”)

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:29:09 +0000

Wauw… dat was lang geleden. Ik was al bijna vergeten dat Johnny de Mol in GTST zat. Ik neem overigens aan dat je Nederlands goed genoeg is ontwikkelt om dit berichtje te begrijpen ;)

By: FUNKY BROWN CHICK

FUNKY BROWN CHICK — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:31:05 +0000

Darwin: It is mindless fun. I don't watch any soaps here in the US, but I used to watch All My Children when I was younger because my sister watched. Whatever Sophie did, I did. Felicia: I *LOVE* the Spanish soaps!!! Sometimes, when I'm channel surfing, I'll stop and watch some of the shows even though I don't speak Spanish. Susan: I'm loyal to my readers because they're loyal to me. Next Monday, just for you, I'm going to have a deep-chocolate handsome man as the Manly Monday pick. I know just the guy for it! He's S-E-X-Y and more yummy than a Hershey bar. If you need something to tide you over between now and next monday, check this out. Pegs: It's true! News and Soaps are *great* for language. Watching the news in the Netherlands was great because they have "kindernieuws." It starts before the real news, and it tells the story of the day's major headlines using cartoons and easy language.

By: Pegs

Pegs — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:50:09 +0000

Many immigrants have told me that television, especially soaps, is how they improved their English. Television news is good, too, but only if you also have news in your own language, so you already can match up the video with the new words. For example, if you know there was an earthquake in California from your native language news, then you watch English news and see the same video, you learn lots of words that go with earthquake. I guess that’s why soaps are good learning tools. You know the storylines already. There are only so many on a soap!

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:08:00 +0000

I know it’s not cricket to inject my thoughts on another’s blog, but I was really really hoping that your “Manly Monday” choice would be Jackie Robinson – what a man he was, and FINE (how did the song go, “I want a deep-chocolate handsome man”)!

But international soaps can be very, very addictive and loads of fun. I spent a few weeks in Italy and after dubbed episodes of “Martin” and “Three’s Company” the soaps were on – some were even funnier than Martin Lawrence’s dialogue refashioned in hip-hop Italiano. I remember lots of crying and chest hair.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:24:02 +0000

Ok one of my favorite things to do is watch Spanish Novellas and I don’t even speak Spanish. I just make up my own words to it!!!

I have a few other guilty watching pleasures: Blood Ties on Lifetime, Coupling, Footballers Wives, and Hex on BBC America (undecided on Robin Hood), and Dancing with the Stars LOL :)

By: Darwin

Darwin — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:02:09 +0000

That is cool! Of all the crap TV I watch, soaps are my most shameful secret. I love how mindless and melodramatic they can be though, it’s a great distraction from reality!