Music quotation contest Hi there! I need some quotations about music, do you know any? If so, please share! We'll select as winner who posts the best one. The prize? Well... would my gratitude be ok? ;)

A question about names Here's a question a guy called Deng asked in the English section, it's about Portuguese names (how to distinguish between name and surname) and seems to be urgent. I copy the link below and hope someone here will be able to help him. Thanks in advance! http://www.italki.com/answers/question/37870.htm

pre-beginner learner Hi everyone, I'm totally new here. I was offered the possibility of following a free Chinese course of about 60 hours, that's intended to let the best students know Chinese enough to spend two weeks in China in 2010 (my diplomat year). In your experience, can this course be really useful? May I actually learn the basic Chinese in so little time? I still have to decide whether signing in or not. Waiting for your opinions... Thanks in advance!

use of "someway" and "somehow" I guess they aren't completely the same, but I really can't define what's the rule for using one or other... So far, I decided on pieces of songs/texts using them I reminded! :) Now I'd like to find out some serious rule...

To seem or not to seem :) When I want to express the impression someone's tired, I can say: «You seem tired», «You seem to be tired» or «It seems you're tired» which have general/objective meaning as well as «It seems to me you're tired» or «I seem you're tired»; do this last two have definitely the same meaning ("in my opinion you're tired")?

Is there any difference between using "if" and "whether"?

Quelle est la conte des fées que vous préferez? Pourquoi? La mienne est Chaperon Rouge :) Je suis en train d'étudier les contes... vraiment!

Wich is you favourite fairy tale? Why? Mine is Little Red Riding Hood. :) Even though you won't believe it, I'm actually studying tales!

Only-teacher primary school. What do you think about this? After many years of successfully working primary school with many different teachers per class, the actual Italian government is reintroducing the old "only-teacher". Personally I think we'll lose all the advantages of different points of view in teaching, which are very important especially at primary school where children mostly learn how to live and deal with people. What are your opinions? How is primary school in your countries? [Of course the main reason of this change is the government doesn't have money enough to pay many teachers; but they don't say so...]