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Chit-chat cheat sheet
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Perhaps you need Transparent Language's "Before You Know It," an electronic flash-card system that runs on personal computers and handheld devices.
"Before You Know It" presents themed sets of vocabulary (times and dates, common greetings, shopping, etc) as a series of on-screen flashcards with native speaker pronunciations.
So if you need serious help with your language acquisition, check it out. Rapidamente. Rapidement. Rapidamente. Schnell!
She said yes!
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| Roger Chang and Lisa Lee |
Chang confessed his love last week in an Island Life Valentine's Eve feature story. He also packed in a whopper at the end of his tale: He proposed in print.
Just for the record, Lee said yes.
Asians after 9/11
In honor of today's annual Day of Remembrance of the 1942 executive order that led to the internment of Japanese Americans, the documentary "Tribute and Remembrance: Asian Americans After 9/11" will get its first Hawai'i public screening at 2 p.m. at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's
Architecture Auditorium, followed by Q&A with Vicki Shu of the Asian American Federation of New York. The event is free.
The 69-minute documentary looks at how the 9/11 tragedy affected the Asian-American community. It was produced by Renata Huang and narrated by David Henry Hwang.
Information: Marcia Sakamoto Wong of the Japanese American Citizens League, 847-3999.
TV looks at Isle beauty
The string of small-screen spotlights on Hawai'i continues with The Learning Channel's popular "A Makeover Story." An episode airing at 12:30 p.m. today on TLC features Aveda Salon & Spa at Ala Moana Center, and designer Donna Loren and her ADASA boutique in Waikiki.
The show follows two people treated to make-overs for a special event, which the pair attends together. Cameras follow to capture the reactions.
