Elena  +  33148 Mon, 14 Jun 04 11:11 AM Hi Muslimah, how funny your call Catalonia t is in Spain Catalonia is the English word for Catalunya (in Catalan language) or Cataluña (in Castillian language, commonly known as Spanish as it is the language spoken all over Spain and brought to Central and South America except Brazil) If you wish more info, let me know. Regards Elena Elena Joined on Thu, Jul 31 2003 Regular Member 827 Enjoying my English study Regards

	Aileen  +  33223 Mon, 14 Jun 04 10:44 PM I look Asian but I’m from the US. I speak restaurant Chinese perfectly - no accent - just point at menu. My English is pretty good and I can talk to puppies. Aileen Joined on Fri, May 28 2004 Full Member 252 Accents

	Woodward  +  33244 Tue, 15 Jun 04 03:28 AM You got a chuckle out of me there aileen. Woodward Joined on Tue, Jun 24 2003 A New Zealander in Chile Senior Member 2,747 Don't let schooling interfere with your education. www.grammar.cl - www.vocabulary.cl

	lalabina78  +  33279 Tue, 15 Jun 04 10:36 AM I'm originally from malta, and live there at the moment, however I spent a large part of my life living in Melbourne, Australia. I miss it terribly, but at the moment am enjoying the Maltese summer :D lalabina78 Joined on Fri, Sep 5 2003 Sunny isle of malta :D New Member 08 I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. Malta

	Muslimah  +  33474 Thu, 17 Jun 04 01:31 AM thxxxxxx Elena, i know Madrid, Ashpelia, Tolaitela i dont know if these names found now or it had changed Muslimah Joined on Thu, Jul 17 2003 Full Member 336 THE REAL FRIENDS ARE LIKE WATER, WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THEM!

	Aileen  +  33501 Thu, 17 Jun 04 08:55 AM Some say why not indeed Reports from owners notwithstanding, scientists have yet to discover a dog that can talk. But German researchers say they have found one that listens and learns like a human child. In a report being published (June 11, 2004) today in the journal Science, the researchers say a 9-year-old border collie named Rico was able to learn the name of a new object in one try, by a process of elimination. Told to fetch an unfamiliar object with a name he had not heard before, Rico picked out the novel item from a group of familiar ones. Even more important, Rico proved in other tests four weeks later that he remembered what he had learned, said Dr. Julia Fischer, an author of the report who is a senior research fellow in the evolution of communication at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. She said that Rico was displaying a kind of learning by inference that is called fast mapping. Aileen