GPL on Wallon television...

RTBF television aired a great item on GPL league racing with the Virtual Belgian Racing Team (http://vibrate.free.fr/) in it's Autovision broadcast. The VBRT guys really put some thought into it and get the point across on what league racing and GPL is all about throughout the report. If you understand French, the clip of the item is really worth downloading and watching. http://vibrate.free.fr/download/autovision_light.exe Jan. =---

"Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:jwP1a.42219$[email hidden]... > RTBF television aired a great item on GPL league racing with the Virtual > Belgian Racing Team (http://vibrate.free.fr/) in it's Autovisionbroadcast. > The VBRT guys really put some thought into it and get the point across on > what league racing and GPL is all about throughout the report. If you > understand French, the clip of the item is really worth downloading and > watching. > > http://vibrate.free.fr/download/autovision_light.exe Thanks Jan ;-) Downloading now. Malc.

Jan Verschueren wrote:

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> > RTBF television aired a great item on GPL league racing with the Virtual > Belgian Racing Team (http://vibrate.free.fr/) in it's Autovision broadcast. > The VBRT guys really put some thought into it and get the point across on > what league racing and GPL is all about throughout the report. If you > understand French, the clip of the item is really worth downloading and > watching.

I often wonder why I chose German as my 2nd foreign language in school over French, or Spanish Nothing against Germans, but German is basically spoken only in Germany and Austria, while a basic understanding of French or Spanish is very useful traveling outside of Europe, Far East, Africa and Latin America <slaps forehead> Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "goyl at nettx dot no" http://www.theuspits.com "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" --Groucho Marx--

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> Jan Verschueren wrote: > > > > RTBF television aired a great item on GPL league racing with the Virtual > > Belgian Racing Team (http://vibrate.free.fr/) in it's Autovision broadcast. > > The VBRT guys really put some thought into it and get the point across on > > what league racing and GPL is all about throughout the report. If you > > understand French, the clip of the item is really worth downloading and > > watching. > > I often wonder why I chose German as my 2nd foreign language in school > over French, or Spanish > > Nothing against Germans, but German is basically spoken only in Germany > and Austria, while a basic understanding of French or Spanish is very > useful traveling outside of Europe, Far East, Africa and Latin America > > <slaps forehead>

Because German is very convenient when going to Austria skiing in a months time :) -- Olav Malmin remove .spam when replying

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> > Nothing against Germans, but German is basically spoken only in Germany > > and Austria, while a basic understanding of French or Spanish is very > > useful traveling outside of Europe, Far East, Africa and Latin America > > > > <slaps forehead> > > > Because German is very convenient when going to Austria skiing in a > months time :) >

Or when you pick up your next Audi I guess our scoolsystem didn't think we ever got to travel much far than that.... -- Jone Tytlandsvik http://tytlandsvik.no

Olav Malmin wrote: > > Because German is very convenient when going to Austria skiing in a > months time :) Oh I've has use for it, for some reason I mostly drive German cars even though I'm not very fond of German cars, south of the Alps is where they make "real" cars :-), there and in Australia :-)), so it has come in handy at times, but with 20/20 hindsight I wish I had taken French (you can go skiing in France and Switzerland too, not that I do such things) or Spanish, but there you go Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "goyl at nettx dot no" http://www.theuspits.com "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" --Groucho Marx--

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> >I often wonder why I chose German as my 2nd foreign language in school >over French, or Spanish > >Nothing against Germans, but German is basically spoken only in Germany >and Austria, while a basic understanding of French or Spanish is very >useful traveling outside of Europe, Far East, Africa and Latin America >

I chose French and feel the same way you do, what a huge waste. I hear as much Spanish as I do English spoken here in the Washington DC area. Don McCorkle

Woodie 83 wrote: > > I chose French and feel the same way you do, what a huge waste. I hear as much > Spanish as I do English spoken here in the Washington DC area. Yeah, living in the US I would probably have chosen Spanish over French, however, I've always wanted to take a trip to Africa or the Far East, in which case I believe French is a useful addition to English Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "goyl at nettx dot no" http://www.theuspits.com "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" --Groucho Marx--

Goy Larsen wrote: >>what league racing and GPL is all about throughout the report. If you >>understand French, the clip of the item is really worth downloading and >>watching. > I often wonder why I chose German as my 2nd foreign language in school > over French, or Spanish Weil Du's sonst ja nich verstehen kannst, du Depp ey ;) Anyway, in the french/belgian broadcast they basically said what we'd be saying to a tv reporter about GPL anyway ('difficult but cool, etc'). It was pretty OK. > Nothing against Germans, but German is basically spoken only in Germany Ey, here in Holland - that's The Netherlands not some city in the US :) - we blab it a bit too, not no mention switzerland 'n luxemburg 'n some parts of France 'n Denmark and I think even uhm part of namibia (southwest Africa in any case, being a former colony there ;) > <slaps forehead> Besser nicht! Dein Grips koennte sich ja loesen und herausfallen ;) Regards, Ruud

Goy Larsen wrote: > Yeah, living in the US I would probably have chosen Spanish over French, > however, I've always wanted to take a trip to Africa or the Far East, in > which case I believe French is a useful addition to English Besides, at least Africans tend to speak a somewhat slower, usually very understandable French, au contraire to the French themselves I have to say, who tend to meld all the words in one rapid and usually nearly incomprehensible staccato of 'ouaisjemishtuvaisclaquefisaiou'... or something like that ;) Regards, Ruud

Ruud Dingemans wrote: > > Weil Du's sonst ja nich verstehen kannst, du Depp ey ;) Aber doch.... > Ey, here in Holland - that's The Netherlands not some city in the US :) > - we blab it a bit too, not no mention switzerland 'n luxemburg 'n some > parts of France 'n Denmark and I think even uhm part of namibia > (southwest Africa in any case, being a former colony there ;) Yes, but most people in Europe under a certain age speak English, even the French if you just point out to them that you're not actually English :-), it's outside Europe that French or Spanish would come in handy, unless of course I wanted to visit a former German colony in SW Africa :-) As for Holland, I tried with a bit of Norwegian down there once, and although it took a while and several tries, the guy behind the bar understood that I wanted another beer, guess it was the combination of Norwegian and sign language that did it :-) Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "goyl at nettx dot no" "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ "A man is only as old as the woman he feels" --Groucho Marx--

Goy Larsen wrote: > Yes, but most people in Europe under a certain age speak English, even > the French if you just point out to them that you're not actually > English :-), I dunno, when it comes to the French and English it seems they speak mainly some form of Franglais ;) > As for Holland, I tried with a bit of Norwegian down there once, and > although it took a while and several tries, the guy behind the bar > understood that I wanted another beer, Norwegian? You have to be kidding ;) The best we kan do is something like 'Skol' (or was that 'sk�l'?) and that's about all Skandinavian we're able to handle you know, better stick to English ;) (Actually, Danish is a little bit like Dutch in some ways, but given all our germanic language origins I guess that's somewhat logical..) Regards, Ruud

Ruud Dingemans wrote: > > I dunno, when it comes to the French and English it seems they speak > mainly some form of Franglais ;) Now listen arefully as I'll only say this once.....etc > Norwegian? You have to be kidding ;) The best we kan do is something > like 'Skol' (or was that 'sk�l'?) and that's about all Skandinavian > we're able to handle you know, better stick to English ;) Skol will get you drunk, yes :-) > (Actually, Danish is a little bit like Dutch in some ways, but given all > our germanic language origins I guess that's somewhat logical..) And Danes understand Norwegian if they want to :-), see, it's all connected in a very nice circumstantial sort of way Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "goyl at nettx dot no" "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ "A man is only as old as the woman he feels" --Groucho Marx--

>I often wonder why I chose German as my 2nd foreign language in school >over French, or Spanish > >Nothing against Germans, but German is basically spoken only in Germany >and Austria, while a basic understanding of French or Spanish is very >useful traveling outside of Europe, Far East, Africa and Latin America I speak English and Bad English. Perfect for the ugly American in Europe! :)