if you burned 'em all together you'd be closer to the truth.

[little_red_book]

I liked the prompt for today--"Why'd you pick your username?" I was random-articleing Wikipedia, and found a bunch of random stuff for titles (that's where Abkhazia, Resolute came from). The Little Red Book was Mao Zedong's famous whatsit--it's not actually "Little Red Book" in Mandarin, but Americans don't know any better, and I thought it was

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[strangememoirs]

So you're the novelist!!!! I didn't check back on the Muslimgirls community, but i got the drift after reading your entries.

So you're learning Persian? Japanese? What languages are you not taking?

[little_red_book]

PFFT, Spanish. ^_~ Languages are so my anti-drug. Or my drug, maybe?

[nausicaa17]

My brother is really into Iran in general. I respect the country: lovely culture, always gets a ton of backlash, nice people. But I just think he's delusional sometimes... he lies about being of Iranian heritage and claims our current heritage is "worse" and "unworthy." As a result, I've gotten a little wary of people who like Iran, lol. However, your love for Iran seems far more healthy. :)

I took ESL as a kid! I honestly don't remember how I learned English. I just remember a lot of coloring pictures and learning verbs.

Lol, Japanese isn't a useless language! Neither is Farsi, for that matter. Well, even if it isn't as widely-practiced, it doesn't hurt to learn, yes? I've learned Spanish so now I'm going to try to tackle French and German, but I'd like to learn as many as possible.

[little_red_book]

Deutsch! Mensch, ich kann dich helfen.

PFFT, my best friend remembers making a lot of pottery. XD Apparently, she learned English pretty quickly...? I should make a lot more dishware; maybe I'll learn something.

Oh, dear. Persians. XD Where is your family from, in actual fact? Iranians are so goony--they have to be the second-most hysterical ethnic group, after Greeks. I love them so much. At least your brother has a better chance of blending in--"white chick who looks like a boy" is a bit more difficult, I think. *weepz*

[nausicaa17]

Lol? "Humans, I can help you?" XD

Yeah, I learned it in three months as opposed to the yearly course. I was only four and watched a lot of Sailor Moon in English in my spare time, though. That might be the reason why I did so well. ;D

My family's from Bangladesh, that little country by India people tend to forget. My mum's family is "apparently" from Afghanistan (this is coming from a grandmother who LOVED to exaggerate), but my brother always extends that further and says we're from Iran. -_-. He's mental, in my opinion.

Aw. Don't say that! Iranians tend to be fair-skinned and pretty progressive. My brother has a worse chance: dark, tanned Bangladeshi boy. :P

[little_red_book]

PFFT, so maybe you're Dari? Still Persian, just a bit darker. ^_~ I've never met anyone from Bangladesh! But now I suppose I have.

Oh, Sailor Moon. How I loved it so. XD Japanese animation used to confuse me a lot--I didn't know why there were large sweatdrops on their faces all of the time.

My friend and I were trying to figure out what color Iranians were today. With the help of Crayola crayons and a lot of drawing on his skin, we determined it was a mixture of Peach and Goldenrod. There's a word for it in Persian--I've completely forgotten what it is.

Invitation to a new community (posting here 'cause I couldn't sent it as a message - hope it's ok)

[andartha]

Recently, I joined the community muslimgirls, where I found a lot of great and interesting people, some of which were interested in discussing all aspects of religion (especially Islam) and faith