Sneaky Spycraft: Week 7, Period 4

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Once the class was assembled, Aly pushed herself up off her seat on her desk.  "Afternoon to all of you.  Last week, we talked about disguises and their use.  Next week is your spring break which means that all of you can run off to wherever you like, and all of us teachers will enjoy our break.  Which means that this week, we have a lot to talk about."  She grinned.  "Yeah, that didn't follow at all, but let's pretend it did."

"Today, we're going to talk about language.  Any good spy should speak at least a few languages that are used in her area of operations.   And by at least a few, I mean as many as possible," Aly glanced over the class.  "Even if you can't speak the language well enough to pass as a native - and don't overestimate your abilities, not everyone can - you need to speak well enough to recruit natives to spy for you and be able to communicate when you need to." 

"I'm pretty sure most of you know more than one language," she said.  "For many of you, English is definitely not the language you were born with.  So.  What I want everyone to do today is to pair up and communicate without using English.  You can use sign, do charades, find another language in common, just no English."  She grinned.  "Why?  Because you all should see what it's like if you don't bother to learn a language and try to spy."

"Until our next class, I want all of you to start learning another language.  I don't care what it is, something that you find useful or interesting," Aly threw an amused glance at Willow if she were there.  "You can consider it homework.  If you don't have an idea where to start?  There's a language club this semester, and I believe one of the heads of it is in our class," she smiled at Inara if she were there.  "It meets Fridays in the library, check it out if you need some direction."

"Any questions?  Then pair up an get to."

[OOC:  Waaaait for the OCD is up! please]

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Sneakily Sign In [2-19]

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Willow Rosenberg

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Isabel Evans

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Seregil i Korit

Notes, Questions, Chatting

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In English here if you want.

Re: Notes, Questions, Chatting

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Sokka's hand went up. "If we never called the language 'English' on our home world, do we still have to use something else?"

Looking for loopholes to avoid work? Sokka? Never!

Re: Notes, Questions, Chatting

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Aly grinned. "Yep. English is the lingua franca of the school. You can't use that or the language you first learned."

Re: Notes, Questions, Chatting

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Sokka frowned. "Well, that sucks."

Pair Up!

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And try to communicate without English. Anything goes really. I need to laugh, make me laugh?

Re: Pair Up!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow looked around for a partner. She wondered if any of the languages she knew would count for Aly's purposes.

Re: Pair Up!

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy waved awkwardly.

He wasn't very good at languages. English gave him trouble still, damn it. Grammar was his most hated enemy sometimes.

Re: Pair Up!

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka wasn't very good with languages. Shrugging, he looked around the room. Gotta go with what you know. "Tu oui cbayg Al Bhed (http://www.pixelscapes.com/twoflower/albhed.html)?" he called out. "E cbayg y meddma. Pydrnuus nupud lyhto bahkiehc."

He looked around the room. No Rikku. No John Sheppard. No Reno. He was probably out of luck with that one.

Re: Pair Up!

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"Dou Genki?" she asked, bouncing over to him. "Onamae wa?"

Re: Pair Up!

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

The best way to communicate without English? Silence. Zuko was good at that.

Re: Pair Up!

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke could do silence. He gave Zuko a wave.

He never thought he'd miss Threepio. Weird.

Re: Pair Up!

[sound-loyalty.livejournal.com]

"Doushiyou kana..." Kabuto said, trailing off and smirking slightly. "Kore wa chotto yasashisugimasu kedo, totemo omoshirosou desu."

Re: Pair Up!

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Haku paused and looked around for a partner who didn't seem to speak the same languages as he did.

Re: Pair Up!

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Inara was pleased with both of her classes today, and not blue. Now, if she could just express herself in a different language (or charades), she'd be all set.

Re: Pair Up!

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny eyed Inara speculatively. "//Do you speak French?//" she asked her. In French.

Talk to your TAs

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When they ping in.

Re: Talk to your TAs

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy was there! And wondering if he should learn whatever Skrulls and Kree spoke. They didn't speak English, right? That would be silly and poor writing!

Re: Talk to your TAs

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Learning a different language that wouldn't be spoken in his world. Zuko didn't know either, but he wasn't going to whine. Whining was beneath him.

Talk to Aly

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Because she's around.

OOC

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WHERE KITTENS ATTACK!

Re: OOC

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Kitty attaaaaaaaaaack!