How many kids and teenagers are playing?

[Jona L.]

but... this is what pocket money is used to.

thats right, but see.....
I have very high expansions:

Cigarettes                                  ~15€
AirwaySim                                   ~8-12€
the Süddeutsche Zeitung(newpaper)  ~40€
train rides (to my father)              ~52€
Total expenses:                              ~115-120€  

Income:                                         132€
each monthly

surplus 10-15€, thats what I can put back for my drivers license, so....I should first stop smoking , and pump my parents for more pocket money , to expand playing AirwaySim, because I cannot take part in that many games due to my finance

by the way as you see, smoking is expensive, so I'd like to tell you also in interes of your health DO NEVER START SOMKING

Jona L.
CEO of LLL

[Kontio]

DO NEVER START SOMKING

Please don't any of you ever start smoking. It does not make you look cool. As for health consequences, please find out about a disease called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. You basically choke to death after suffering for years and the disease is very strongly linked to smoking. I've seen some of these patients and it ain't pretty. End of health rant, please return to your imaginary airlines.

As for young people playing for these games, I must say I'm really impressed. If my stepson wanted to play I would buy him 100 credits at once. Unfortunately he only likes pointless and stupid games. 

[Filippo]

I am a bit concirned because I have to go to India in October for a holiday with Dad and one of the cities I will visit is Mumbai. I recently though saw a documentary on National Geographic that Mumbai has so much pollution that being there and breathing it's air for 1 day is like smoking  20  cigarettes!!!

I have quite high expenses as well, but when there are airwaysim games, I cut back on candy, snacks and chocolate which account for 40% of my spendings!

[Jona L.]

I have to go to

you have to??
my dad doesn't make such trips with me ... we had to drive arround (sadly- )former DDR/East Germany..

20 cigarettes!!!

That's what I smoke in half a day ... well as I said ... don't start.. stay at candy and choclate


Jona L.
CEO of LLL

[Filippo]

That's what I smoke in half a day ... well as I said ... don't start.. stay at candy and choclate


Jona L.
CEO of LLL

40 cigarettes a day!!! You smoke as a chimney!!! What do your parents say then?
Das is nicht gut!

[luke3]

Fortunately i can't have more than one game running at a time (i've got my hands full with ATB2) so the expenses are very low for airwaysim. Thankfully, because one of my primary expenses is flight hours and it's pretty much impossible to cut back on those (worse than smoking   )

[Frogiton]

I sell stuff on ebay to pay for this!

[Dorito_25]

I'm sorry, but am I the only normal kid around here? There's smoking and trips that people HAVING to go to to India. 
I guess I do go on trips a lot for the average Australian child. More than average, nearly 2,000 miles every 5 weeks on average for me. Not a lot, but a lot for just a kid....oh wait, I'm a teenager now. 

[jest]

Please don't any of you ever start smoking. It does not make you look cool. As for health consequences, please find out about a disease called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. You basically choke to death after suffering for years and the disease is very strongly linked to smoking. I've seen some of these patients and it ain't pretty. End of health rant, please return to your imaginary airlines.

As for young people playing for these games, I must say I'm really impressed. If my stepson wanted to play I would buy him 100 credits at once. Unfortunately he only likes pointless and stupid games. 

Hey Kontio

Welcome to the club. I also have a stepson and he's stuck on World of Warcraft and Team Fortress  . What buggers me the most is the fact that he is very intelligent. Go figure.

[Jona L.]

What do your parents say then?

well..... after the 4   (reminder I'm sixteen) that I smoke now they stopped saying anything , I think they realised it to be useless

Das is nicht gut!

where do you learn to speak german?? at school? from your parents/family members?? I'd be interested how Italians learn german !! by the way I'm passioned in italian cooking


Jona L.
CEO of LLL

[Filippo]

where do you learn to speak german?? at school? from your parents/family members?? I'd be interested how Italians learn german !! by the way I'm passioned in italian cooking


Jona L.
CEO of LLL

I went to a Summer camp in Germany this summer in Salem, southern Germany. I was an absolute beginner but after 40hrs, now I can speak and write a bit. Next year, I will aslo take german lessons at school; as german is an important language! So, after I can speak german, I will know: Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. I'm trying to learn all the major European languages

So, what's your favourite Italian dish then?

[samomuransky]

Well, you're just good. I'm trying to learn German for 4 years and I can't (but I don't have any choice, because I must have German on my school). Actually, I never needed it, I spent almost whole holiday in Austria and English was enough

[Jona L.]

in Salem, southern Germany.

Well, thats an whole elite boarding school, so maybe your father/mother has a really well paid job, or you got an scholarship, or you have very good connections!!

So, what's your favourite Italian dish then?

About that I must say, that it is an own invention. pollo in vino rosso e *vegetables* mediterraneo (don't know whether it is right , 3yrs passed since my last vacation in bella italia ), but it's chicken breast fillet in mediterreanian vegetables, with vino nobile di montepulciano (D.O.C only ) about 200ml (the rest either for drinking while having dinner, or drinking while cooking )

Viel Spaß beim Deutsch lernen! 

Actually, I never needed it, I spent almost whole holiday in Austria and English was enough

You're totally right... people in Austria say they would speak german but they DON'T, and they probably will NEVER do.
what they speak is what I call 'austrian'('Österreichisch'), the swiss people don't arrogate to speak german they call it 'schwitzerdütsch', what is okay in my eyes. but the austrians mainly say "we speak german", but they don't.... the same is for people from Bavaria (Bayern) and Baden-Wuerttemberg (Baden - Württemberg), and in parts for people from Saxony (Sachsen), wich is not real german...
see, I come from Duisburg, near Düsseldorf [EDDM|DUS], where you speak one of the 'best' and purest german .

thank you for you attention


Jona L.
CEO of LLL

[Filippo]

Well, thats an whole elite boarding school, so maybe your father/mother has a really well paid job, or you got an scholarship, or you have very good connections!!

That was a very nice summer camp! And I'm going back next year as well!!!

About that I must say, that it is an own invention. pollo in vino rosso e *vegetables* mediterraneo (don't know whether it is right , 3yrs passed since my last vacation in bella italia ), but it's chicken breast fillet in mediterreanian vegetables, with vino nobile di montepulciano (D.O.C only ) about 200ml

Vegetables in italian = verdure
the spellng was almost correct: pollo in vino rosso e verdure mediterranee ("e" instaed of "a" as it's plural   )

The recepie sounds very very good, it's similar to "brasato" which is the same exact thing as you said but with beef fillet instead of chicken. You might become a famous chef

or drinking while cooking )

Interesting cooking

Viel Spaß beim Deutsch lernen!  

Danke!

[Jona L.]

You might become a famous chef

mille grazie,
                well, as a hobby maybe, but not as job, I'm planning to go to logistic buisiness,

and I think AirwaySim is a good training for that, so I must agree with Sami, that it is an educational game.

GOT THAT SAMI?

Ich weiß nicht wie die deutsche Grammatik, sondern Sprache ist sehr schön!

nearly correct as well...

Ich weiß nicht wie die deutsche Grammatik funktionert, sondern die Sprache ist sehr schön!

the "funktioniert" is needed in order that this is the main sentence, and it has to have Subject Verb Object, and "funktioniert" ist the missing Verb. and in the second part there needs to be, different to many (in this case also not) english Nouns you need to put a preposition in front of it. Also, what I see you learned is that in german there are three different types of prepositions, due to the three genders:
"das" for neutrum
"der" for maskulinum
"die" for femininum,
but that is similar in italian right??

Okay so far for german grammar...

but I think you speak a much better german, than my italian is , but you went to summer camp here, and I did only have vacancies with my mother (*barf*[related to holiday with parents at all]) in italy( )...

by the way, it isn't that far from Salem at the Bodensee to München(200-400km), wich you might have visited?? if not you have to!!!!!
munich is the (in my opinion) nicest, prettiest and most awesome city in whole germany!!! (even though people there don't speak german(see post above))

so:

arrividerci, e buena notte!
(have to go now, because I have to get up at 5.45AM tomorrow for school, like each morning)


Jona L.
CEO of LLL

[ICEcoldair881]

Hey guys. I'm in my teens, but I'm not going to say where exactly. (security reasons) I live in Toronto Canada, and (thank god) I don't smoke it's also expensive here too. My uncle smokes and he says (and I see it at gas stations too) that they are about $10-15 CAD per pack (about 6.40-9.60 euros). wow. it's even more expensive there! anywho, I'm going to study german in a couple years once this french crap i HAVE to take is over. I mean yeah,it's nice to be semi-bilingual right now, but still. BORING! I'm even studying right now at home with a "learn german" book. I'm ASLO studying russian when I'm in my aunt's car, because she's heading to moscow in september. I also know tiny bits of polish because my grandmother was born there. So, in total I semi-know 4 languages and ace in english, as I was born in Canada. Oh! i also know very little Italian too. My friend's dad is italian and they go to italy (FIRST CLASS ) every year, and I had to help my friend practice it. So that's 5 semi-know languages and 1 aced language. let's see if i can cough up some simple sentences in some of the languages i semi-know.

German-Es macht mir nicht aus!

Russian (don't know how to write it, so i'll just google translate it so you know what the heck i'm saying)-Привет! как дела?

Polish-porze nocnej jest miły.

Italian-Che fortuna che ho oggi! Vorrei provare la lotteria! (but today for me it's the opposite! )

tip Jona: when saying something like "that's whole area's an elite boarding school" remember that when there are two vowels after each other like what i said, it's "an elite" but when, like you said, "an whole" there's no need for the "n" after "a"

ok. I have to go now. Ich nehme den Zug (to Hamilton).

[Dorito_25]

This is so sad! I'm Italian and I know NOTHING of the language... well I exaggerate, but I do know VERY BASIC Italian. And with my Greek...pfft, forget about it, I only know/remember "May I please have some water" and "Milk".

I have to say that the education system in Australia are great. In Australian Capital Territory (A state/territory - It's the home of Canberra...the capital city - sorry, I just know that a lot of foreigners have absolute no idea what the capital of Australia is ahaha), as I was saying. My school only have Japanese and French as language subjects, and are not vital...until next year. I HAVE to learn a language, but I hope it is a variety. I want to learn Italian, but that is only in Private schools at the moment, the public schools have Japanese,
French and Indonesian and Spanish. (Most anyway). You are probably thinking that if I grew up in a European family...why don't I know any of them? Well my mum is Greek and my dad is Italian...you do the math. They never spoke their own languages to eachother let alone to us/me. 

Although I dont know any other language than English, I do teach English voluntarily to other students in my school who have English as a second language. It's pretty cool, but annoying in some ways.

the "funktioniert" is needed in order that this is the main sentence, and it has to have Subject Verb Object, and "funktioniert" ist the missing Verb.

Oh god, I just learnt about that process today...although I never really needed to as I always type "full sentences", but it was good to know that that formula was needed to make a full sentence. 

(Oh and ciggarettes in Australia cost about $15 - $25AUD for a pack of...24?? That is about 8 - 14EUR)

[Filippo]

Thanks Jona for the german lesson! I copy pasted your message and saved it on my computer in case I need it in the future

I went to Munchen, and to my opinion too it is the best city in germany!  The october fest really builds up their "palana spoiler"!   But it's very nice during the october fest as everybody is so happy that you rarely see people which are happyer!

Your last sentence saying good night, was almost correct: buona notte

To Icecold:
Knowing lots of semi languages is also useful. You can speak a bit all around the world. I know "taxi" in every language of the world! About the lottery, they recently won 147 million Euros in the Italian lotterly ,

To Dorito_25
Japanese! they all learn english, so what's the point of that? Italian too is not incredibly useful, but I think you should learn it since it's one of your mother languages. Spanish instead is more useful, but Italian is a very nice language, and it might be useful as once you know Italian, all the other latin languages come in a clic! So, you have 3 passports, Italian, greek and Australian?

Nice, to teach english to other students - is it a sort of language exchange? Must be interesting!

Have to go now - I'm on holiday and I have to take a Sight seeing bus!

Bye

[samomuransky]

munich is the (in my opinion) nicest, prettiest and most awesome city in whole germany!!! (even though people there don't speak german(see post above))

Of course, they speak German! Same as Austrians speak German. Maybe it's not grammatically correct, but still, it's German. It's same like here in Slovakia - some (especially old) people on Eastern Slovakia speak quite different and most people (especially like me - from Western Slovakia) sometimes don't understand them, but still, they speak Slovak. It's called slang/dialect

About Munich - I never was there, but definitely, once I want to see it (it could be cheaper with Sommerticket in Austria, if you know about it I can do it from Bratislava as one-day trip by train)! I was in Cologne and Berlin and those are nice cities My only problem is that (sorry about that) I NEVER found one restaurant in Germany with good food... if you know about some, let me know

[Budjet]

I'm 15. Post finished