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I'd say automotive repair. I know the basics and some advanced stuff but cars are just so complex. I think it'd be nice to know every facet of how your vehicle runs and operates. Would also make it easier to know if someone is trying to rip you off.
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Learning a new language. I currently live in Japan and not knowing Japanese makes traveling and meeting new people hard. If I knew how to speak Japanese I feel like a whole new experience would be available to me.
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Learning a new language is tough. I learned some French as a 3-4 year old, lived off post. As a joking southerner, with a GRITS mouth and accelerated learning decay (forget faster than I can learn) languages are tough for me. I spent six months in Taiwan, my last semester of HS. Mandarins has like four intimations for each symbol, depends on context a lot, and is easy to say something wrong or even insulting by accident. Four years in Germany, no time to study, but tried anyway.. learned enough to eat, drink and make friends. At that time older germans, many spoke English, IF you tried to speak German, they switched to English. Dutch are the greatest on knowing multiple languages and like American soldiers,RE: Bridge Too Far, movie. Eastern Europeans: Polish, Latvian, etc love to talk to Americans. But like Joe Says, Go for it. Get Rosetta Stone, or a Japanese boyfriend? Make great memories!
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I grew up doing our own auto and home repairs. I can and have wired a house, I have helped build one and remodeled and repaired many. I can pour concrete, lay block, I can do basic auto repairs, have swapped engines and transmissions, and replaced many clutches. I can solder, both copper tube and electrical, and do basic troubleshooting of electric circuits, though I can't troubleshoot circuit boards. I can weld with wire, stick or torch, and I braze as good as anyone I've ever seen. I've built and repaired snowplow undercarriages, welded up exhaust and done redneck body repairs...
I took the trappers education course through the DNR, and while it covered the basics of trapping, I don't know how to do it, and don't have the time to commit to it, but I would like to learn how. Ever since I was a kid I have wanted to do blacksmithing. I got yelled at by my mom when I was a kid for heating steel up in a fire in the back yard and hitting it with a hammer. I was fascinated by the fact that I could change it's shape. I also would like to learn robotics and circuit boards, but doubt I ever will. Along with that, I've thought about trying to teach myself computer programming. I've started twice, but gotten bored with it each time.
My favorite skill I've learned however, is being a combat engineer! Essayons!
I took the trappers education course through the DNR, and while it covered the basics of trapping, I don't know how to do it, and don't have the time to commit to it, but I would like to learn how. Ever since I was a kid I have wanted to do blacksmithing. I got yelled at by my mom when I was a kid for heating steel up in a fire in the back yard and hitting it with a hammer. I was fascinated by the fact that I could change it's shape. I also would like to learn robotics and circuit boards, but doubt I ever will. Along with that, I've thought about trying to teach myself computer programming. I've started twice, but gotten bored with it each time.
My favorite skill I've learned however, is being a combat engineer! Essayons!
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