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Post by 4EverAdam on Mar 9, 2019 16:56:54 GMT -5
Javi posted on instagram last night that included a photo of that location.
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Post by svca on Mar 9, 2019 16:57:47 GMT -5
Neat photo! Are those hair extensions or a scarf on his lapel? Reminiscent of the If I Had You video. Haha, I was just going to ask that...looked like a braid or something over his left shoulder.
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Post by loxie on Mar 9, 2019 16:57:52 GMT -5
This TED Talk on the Art of Performance by the stellar pianist, Alpin Hong, could have been given by Adam. As he was talking, I was relating everything to Adam's performances. If you have a few minutes, it's worth watching. Be sure to stay for his performance of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu1g6YL3AGE
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Post by bamafan on Mar 9, 2019 16:58:32 GMT -5
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Post by sizzling63 on Mar 9, 2019 17:05:54 GMT -5
It would be nice if Adam learned some Spanish. Good old high school Spanish doesn't always stick. Adam is naturally good at accents, so his Spanish will probably sound pretty good. Adam said that Sauli taught him some Finnish, esp. swear words, LOL. But Finnish is SO different from English. It's not even in the same language group. But Spanish, French and Italian are the Romance languages. And so Adam will be learning a "language of love." I like that. So, a question to my American friends: If someone learnt a language like Spanish in Highschool, what can one expect? How long do students in the US have to study a foreign language? I remember from my few weeks in an American Highschool in 1996, that the American standards were very different from what I was used to. I started to learn English in elementary school, 3rd grade. I was never allowed to use German in these classes. When I started upper school at 7th grade, I had to choose a second language (this is only necessary, when you want to achieve the German „Abitur“). In the end I studied English for 11 years (British, American and Australian - that depended on our teachers and changed through the years. The first 6 years were British though.) and French for 7. We had to analyze and write essays about Shakespeare‘s sonnets and Sartre‘s works. But that’s only for students, who graduate after 13 years (now often 12) with the Abitur. Today all students in Germany are learning English from grade 3 to 10 -that’s 8 years. Until about 15 years ago, it were at least 6 years of any language (usually English, but sometimes French or Latin). How is that in the USA? It's a very different school system here in the States and my feedback is based on California public education. Thankfully, we have very good public schools where we live, but many people opt to send their kids to private schools, and some go to international schools. Here it is....Everybody goes to high school but within high school there are different "tracks" or levels of difficulty for individual subjects. For instance, if you're good in math and sciences you take the advanced placement courses and get some college credit already, and if at the same time you don't have a knack for languages you can keep those at a required minimum. The curriculum is more "customized" but a certain amount of units of all subjects and fields is required to graduate. High school students switch classrooms during the day as everybody has a different curriculum, contrary to Germany where the whole class moves on throughout the years with pretty much identical schedules. Language requirements here are minimal compared to Europe or what I know from Germany, where students in advanced education like "Gymnasium" or "le lycee" typically take at least two languages at the same time (English/French or English/Latin or English/Spanish and may be another). In the US however, you typically get to a top college (yes, there are tiers too) if you only took one language for a few years and typically it's Spanish. French and Latin are offered as well but not super common. Both my kids started with Spanish in middle school (7th/8th grade), continued with advanced placement Spanish throughout high school, and got college credit for it, but that was more out of interest and not a necessity. I think I didn't know of anybody who took two languages or if that was even possible. Of course if you want to make it to a top college here you have to take more advanced classes of various subjects AND ideally take solid language courses too. Again, it is a bit more customized based on your talents and interests, but languages are a lot less emphasized. Are you confused now? One thing that I just became aware of... learning Mandarin in high school is becoming increasingly more popular here. Makes sense.
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Post by bamafan on Mar 9, 2019 17:07:23 GMT -5
I zoomed (not a really clear pic to begin with) and it appears to be hair extensions. He has on heavy eyeliner and looks like he drew a beauty mark on his cheek.
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Post by sizzling63 on Mar 9, 2019 17:13:35 GMT -5
Uhm, what’s that on Adam’s left shoulder? Did he get extensions? Priceless! May be for his next tour he will put the scarlet letter "A" back on his vest haha. Remember Glamnation?
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Post by nightowl on Mar 9, 2019 17:21:21 GMT -5
It's a very different school system here in the States - everybody goes to high school but within high school there are different "tracks" or level of difficulty for individual subjects. For instance, if you're good in math and sciences you take the advanced placement courses, and if at the same time you don't have a knack for languages you can keep those at a required minimum. The curriculum is more "customized" but a certain amount of units of all subjects and fields are required. High school students switch classrooms during the day as everybody has a different curriculum, contrary to Germany where the whole class moves on throughout the years with pretty much identical schedules. Language requirements here are minimal compared to Europe or what I know from Germany where students in advanced education like "Gymnasium" or "le lycee" typically take at least two languages at the same time (English/French or English/Latin or English/Spanish and may be another). In the US however, you typically get to a top college (yes, there are tiers too) if you only took one language and not sure if you even need to take it all the way throughout. Both my kids started with Spanish in middle school (7th/8th grade), continued with advanced placement throughout high school, and got college credit for it, but that was more out of interest and not a necessity. Of course if you want to make it to a top college here you have to take more advanced classes of various subjects AND ideally take solid language courses too. Again, it is a bit more customized based on your talents and interests, but languages are a lot less emphasized. Are you confused now? Thanks! To you and nica575 as well. And thank God, I‘ve been at an American Highschool myself as an exchange student, so I’m not completely confused, because I know a bit about how the schedules and classroochanges ect. are handled very different there. I just never understood, after which rules the classes were picked. But it sounds like on university. Must be very complicated to choose, especially at a young age in middle school. I‘m glad, that we don’t have big differences between public and private schools here. Parents don’t need to pay money for school. There are some private schools, but not too many. So, we have no idea, how much Spanish Adam has learnt in school, right?
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Post by 4EverAdam on Mar 9, 2019 17:24:08 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Mar 9, 2019 17:24:33 GMT -5
Sam Sparro asked Adam if a mullet is occurring and Alisan said she wanted to know too.
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