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Some things to explore:
This is a really neat app that lets you listen to radio around the world.
Radio Garden
Women in Language (March 4-7). An online event with a $29 fee. I think you have to enroll while the event is active, but you can view the recorded talks later.
P.S. I obviously should no longer be relied upon to start a monthly thread. Sorry.
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19 hours ago, Quill said:
Is @Penguin around? She has started these language threads in the past.
Yes, I am still around although I have obviously not been very active.
@cintinativeI am glad that you took on starting the thread. I didn’t really mean to ghost on everyone, but life has been a bit complicated lately.
Languages are actually a nice diversion and a balm at the moment.
Everyone should listen to @Matryoshka when she talks about Lingua Llama! It is a friendly place with lots of options.
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5 minutes ago, J-rap said:
This is our situation with our dd as well. 😞
We can hug each other.
ETA When I finally get to the EU I’m gonna stay my full 90 days!
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It all depends on the vaccine rollout here and within the EU. I have not seen my overseas kiddo in a year and really hope we don’t have to hit the two year mark.
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I’m glad you asked, though! I am looking ar perfume subscriptions and Olactif is one I had not heard of. My mom lets me pick out my own Christmas gift so it would be for me 🙂
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@JunieMaybe look into the Zoom conversation opportunities that @Matryoshkahas been talking about. I am very glad that she nudged me to try the Dutch convo, and there are lots of choices on that channel for Spanish.
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@Loesje22000Thanks to all those lovely trips to the Netherlands (and one very lucky ebay purchase of Lekturama’s Luister Sprookjes) I have plenty to read in Dutch. And this year I am determined to do it! And now that I have the weekly convo practice I am feeling motivated again.
@Quill If you are managing to do anything optional in the midst of adjusting to full time employment, I am super impressed. Then again, I think you are one of the most organized people I know 🙂
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6 hours ago, Loesje22000 said:
@Matryoshka would that make 18h in GMT+1 ?
I think so, yes. You are six hours ahead of us.
I know what you mean about pondering your reasons for learning a language. I will likely never visit Norway again. I want to read these tales in the original Norwegian but I’m not sure if I’ll continue reading much Norwegian after that. Access to books is part of the problem.
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I'm still working on Danish, Latin, and Dutch. I spent quite a bit of time exploring Norwegian in November, and I'm trying to decide what to do with that. I think the best thing now would be to read the Danish version of a book in parallel with the Norwegian. It took me a ridiculous amount of time, but I have finally located both Danish and Norwegian versions of the famous Norwegian folk/fairy tales by Asbjørnsen and Moe. I've already read these in English, which helps.
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Sorry that this is a bit late!
The November thread is here.
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What are you studying? How is it going?
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Maybe I shouldn't be, but I am surprised that someone would go to Robin with a complaint about a BaW post and expect her to moderate that.
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I haven't really been reading many books and have instead been playing around with languages that I can't yet read well. But I have read a few things since I last posted about my books. I don't think I have posted about any of these before - my apologies if I am repeating myself.
Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongsen. This is a mix of biography/memoir/gender study/music criticism. That's a lot to pack into 138 pages, but it did a good job. The author, originally from the Philippines, comes from a family of musicians and she was named after Karen Carpenter. I really enjoyed this book and followed it up with a Karen Carpenter YouTube binge.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. This was wildly popular on the left in 2017, and I wasn't sure how it would read in 2020. But, as someone concerned about the state of democracy, I found it perfectly suited to right now. This is also a very short book, and I have now read both of Timothy Snyder's short books (the other one was Our Malady). I would like to read his longer works about Eastern Europe.
Dracula by Bram Stoker. It took me longer than it should have to get through this, but I was very distracted in November. As it turns out, I did not really know the story of Dracula at all! I feel so enlightened now!
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. I have read a selection of anti-racism books this year, and this was easily the best written of the batch. I look forward to reading more of her work. @Dreamergal I also learned quite a bit about India from this book.
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Wow @Karenithat is indeed a lot of book kudos! Glad it lived up to them!
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@Melissa MI really want to thank you for introducing me to Theater of War productions. I think I have participated three times now. They do stellar work.
I’ll have to check out Court Theater. Fen looks interesting.
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@Robin MI never read Black Narcissus, only saw the movie, so I don’t know. I’ll be interested to see what other nunnery books you choose!
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In This House of Brede looks great for my 10x10 Good Catholic/Bad Catholic category. I saw the movie Black Narcissus and it was quite disturbing.
Another excellent literary novel with a nun as the main character is Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen.
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@mumto2I ended up sending Piranesi back to the library unread. I never even opened it. I read very little this month, and couldn’t summon the enthusiasm for Piranesi. I might try it again sometime.
ETA Love the wall hanging!
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Congratulations!
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20 hours ago, Junie said:
I'm still trying to figure out my 10x10 categories for this year...
And I am still finishing the ones from 2019!
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Fantastic!!! Congratulations!
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The local store is out of toiletbowl cleaner, as is Target online.
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19 minutes ago, Quill said:
Hmmm. That is troubling, not gonna lie. I'm not going to be a huge fan of quarantining and getting my brain swabbed because someone at Costco had COVID when I was there.
But I think you would agree that it is good to know what the follow-up expectations are if you use it?
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Here ya go:
What to do if you get an exposure notice Link
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I am having the same thought experiment, Quill. I did look at the .gov site last night, and I think it addressed what one should do if one gets a ping, but I can’t remember right now what it said. I’ll see if I can find it again.
What will happen to me if I turn it on?I would not get a false sense of security. No way. The people who go maskless and flaunt health guidelines won’t even consider turning it on.
If it used location services, I think I would be pinged constantly. I live in an urban setting. I don’t need daily false alarms because someone outside stood still for 15 minutes. But bluetooth? That might be ok. My wireless headphones lose the bluetooth signal with a wall between me and the device. I’d like my line of thinking corrected if I misunderstand the technology.
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Learning Foreign Languages (Self-Education) 2021
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@cintinative Do you want to change the title of your thread?
@alisoncooksGlad you found your way back to learning languages! Breaks are important for me, also. Otherwise I suffer from burnout.