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UKbug
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 Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:50 am Post subject: multi-merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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hey guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Christmas is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm wondering how Christmas is celebrated in worldwide!?? 'n' how to say merry Christmas in different languages???????? in taiwan, 聖誕快樂(shen-dan-kuai-le)sounds like that!!!
so, now u guys turn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't forget to tell us how to pronouce it in english!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Rogerlz
Joined: 30 Nov 2006
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Location: Costa Rica
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: multi-merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| UKbug wrote: |
hey guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Christmas is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm wondering how Christmas is celebrated in worldwide!?? 'n' how to say merry Christmas in different languages???????? in taiwan, 聖誕快樂(shen-dan-kuai-le)sounds like that!!!
so, now u guys turn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't forget to tell us how to pronouce it in english!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
I don't know, sharing gifts, drinking alcohol, smoking marihuana (I'm just kidding), I don't know, go to the beach and get drunk....
mmm... we went to something that makes her in CR for celebrating the chrismast and new year!!! but this year didn't do that!!!! we are so sad 
Is some kind of Disney Land with bars, of corse is very different, I mean the machines and the place!!!! And there are also a "run of bulls" (I don't know how to say that, Cristi I need your help, I refering to Zapote!!! )
Spanish: Feliz navidad
Cantonese: Santan fai log (is very difficult to spelling that!!!)
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RedRose
Joined: 21 May 2004
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I normally don't celebrate Christmas. Maybe because I am not a Christian. However, here in the south China, many people celebrate Christmas. I don't know why. I guess it's because US has a powerful influence all over the world, so the typical American festivels are celebrated by people in the world. on the other hand, Christmas has become a chance by which the stores and supermarkets make money.
Happily, I always receive many presents from my students on every Christmas. that's why I like Christmas. |
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Rogerlz
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Location: Costa Rica
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I know that is why my parents don't celebrate the chrismast!!! all the people in CR celebrate this day, whith one exeption, guess who!!! Yes, my parents and I'm very sad about that, they even want to buy a chrismast tree!!!! 
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Cristi
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I normally don't celebrate Christmas. Maybe because I am not a Christian. However, here in the south China, many people celebrate Christmas. I don't know why. I guess it's because US has a powerful influence all over the world, so the typical American festivels are celebrated by people in the world. on the other hand, Christmas has become a chance by which the stores and supermarkets make money. |
You're quite correct RedRose!!!
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| Is some kind of Disney Land with bars, of corse is very different, I mean the machines and the place!!!! And there are also a "run of bulls" (I don't know how to say that, Cristi I need your help, I refering to Zapote!!! ) |
I'm here, lol! Well, I've never gone to Zapote actually, but I know what's it about. What Roger meant, is that in Costa Rica, every year they organize some kind of festival in a place called Zapote (Zah-POH-teh) where there are stands in which you can drink lots of alcohol  and also eat traditional stuff. There are also machines, sort of like games as the roller coasters and all that. To be honest, I've never liked or had the interest to go there...but you know, maybe for others Zapote rocks. lol hahaha...
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| I know that is why my parents don't celebrate the chrismast!!! all the people in CR celebrate this day, whith one exeption, guess who!!! Yes, my parents and I'm very sad about that, they even want to buy a chrismast tree!!!! |
Roger, don't worry so much... I'm agnostic (don't have any religion), sometimes I feel like an alien in here... Nearly everybody is christian, but you must not feel pittyful for that... I do celebrate Christmas, but it's because of my grandparents, for me celebrating it doesn't mean anything. I think, as RedRose, that Christmas has become a party for markets... See?
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Cristi
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Oh, and I don't know how to say that about the bulls either...
It's just that they put a bull in some sort of umm... bullring, I think that's how it's called... and people run like mad when the bull wants to get them... But in Costa Rica it's illegal to kill the bulls, like they do in Spain for example...
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Rogerlz
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Thanks cristi!!!! hehehe 
You are right is really a party for all the stores!!!! I don't worry about the chrismast, but is funny that this year I don't have a chrismast spirit, I don't want to know anything related to Chrismast!!! But also I don't know why, but the last year I was so happy because of the Chrismas!!! 
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UKbug
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Dear alllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAY U GUYS HAVE A FESTIVE CHRISTMAS!!!!!
Linda |
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ad-miral
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
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Chinese people don't know very much about the real meaning of Christmas, but here in XiAn many students go to the Christian church, holding a light while going around the church. 
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