Maybe practical to know: EU announces on Thursdays the new colorcode of EU countries, which change on Mondays. Most countries define their travel restrictments in these colors. https://reopen.europa.eu/en/ If tests are a requirement be sure take the right one, not every country accepts the same ones. I understand your excitement as our child moves to the other side of the border next month, and although it is relatively close in distance is is a different world in requirements.

As you mention a love for detailed stuff: Iron beads? (that’s how its called here) It is not my cup of tea but dd liked it. Embroidery for kindergarten ? I think I was 5 when I got my first embroidery package. Weaving? Or maybe first spool knitting?

I started to dye my own hair during one of the lockdowns and still doing it that way. I liked the dark brown in the loreal serie but it had a strong coconut smell which only disappeared at time I had to dye again. I didn’t like to smell like a coconut. I am using Syoss now, the color is a little to red in my personal tast but the smell is just flowerish: I can handle that 🙂

20 deaths, 20 missing in Belgium at this moment. Dikes are breaking. Coordination is in hands of the federal government now.

By our (flemish) morning news there are 14 deads in Belgium now. The rain has stopped (at least where I live) so now it is keeping the fingers crossed dikes and dams won’t break through. Living in Belgium, but not in the East part.

Elementary Greek is easy to self teach and written for elementary grades. I think it is a nice taster to start with. We worked also with Athenaze but I think it is harder to self teach if you have no Greek under your belt yourself. So you may start with a elementary program, and study ahead yourself the athenaze text. It might be nice to know that as Elementary Greek teaches biblical Greek it has a focus on learning bible verses in Greek, not everybody is equally interested in that

Old Greek , Modern Greek or Biblical Greek?

If my household has any organisation rule it is I try to store stuff where I actually use it. There are some exceptions for storing books and not-now-used-craft supplies, but the actual used stuff is where it is used…

As EU citizen from country X living in country Y we get the vaccins in the country where we live. Citizens from this country, living outside the EU may choose to get the vaccin where they live, or travel back and get it here.

I had to read some Judge Dee stories during Highschool: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/499653.Judge_Dee_at_Work?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=jNv50vsww8&rank=16 A Chinese mysterie has a totally different set up then I was used to, but it might be a nice addition if you need something for comparative writing / discussing assignments. It might be not really grade 10 literature standard, but nice to balance your program.

I thought it was one of her roommates, but that is my connotation with pickwick papers too 🙂

Like this: Gouda Kaas.m4a

My course has a Russian Songbook: https://www.amazon.de/-/nl/dp/1899785264/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_nl_NL=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&dchild=1&keywords=Russian+ruslan+song&qid=1620581371&sr=8-1 I don’t own it yet as I am still in the ‘my cat drinks milk’ and ‘my horse eat apples’ stage...

I think this is the ‘red grammar’ 8filltheheart is referring to: https://www.amazon.com/Сборник-упражнений-грамматике-русского-иностранцев-ebook/dp/B0184KH87U/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=По+грамматике&qid=1620579597&s=books&sr=1-4

I am studying Russian for almost 6 weeks now and have not covered the cases yet, but learned some German during middle school, and failed the exams because nobody had explained me how cases work.. I think I would suggest to do some more English Grammar before starting Russian Grammar. You’ll need a reference grammar to explain grammar of other languages. Dutch hasn’t cases but we do have sentence syntax, if preposition is similar to the dutch ‘voorzetselvoorwerp’ it is that sentence part that starts with the fixed preposition that belongs to the verb. So ‘for’ in ‘looking for’ is a fixed preposition, which makes in the sentence: I am looking for my glasses for my glasses as the voorzetselvoorwerp I don’t have quick definitions. If it differs from Russian ignore my explanation 🙂

DD applied to www.WUR.nl for a second year on row. Also for a second year on row she has been accepted conditionally. (That’s how it works in the Netherlands, because of the exit exams in may/june). She did a Latin-Modern Languages track in homeschool, but needed a math-science track for this University. She tried last summer an ‘exam only’ option but failed 3 / 4 subjects so she is in a kind of community college for adult education now for math, physics and chemistry (she passed biology last summer) About 2 weeks the central exit exams start and then we will know if she will be accepted unconditionally (after she gets her diploma) She plans to study biology at WUR. @RootAnn as you wondered how we were doing...

Homeschooled 1 child from 4-17yo, preK starts at 2yo here so she visited school during 2 years but otherwise I homeschooled ‘whole way through’

So to those who use Duolingo, what do you add to support the language learning? I started Russian, which is fun, but I feel I need more support in explanations.

I would limit my visits to every other week or less. If jig saw or crossword/cryptogram puzzle together is no option, I would combine the visits to my mom with visits to a beautiful garden or nice garden centre / plant breeder. Just to balance out the visit. I like the idea of visiting on a workday.

You may want to consider what the goal becomes of this language: becoming tri-langual or will this be tackled as a foreign language? Becoming multilangual is cost intensive if you don’t have a library with enough reading sources in the targeted language.

Dutch is my native tongue indeed 🙂

I quit Duolingo German, after passing the 50day strike it became a burden to not loose a day. And my German is somewhere between - not good enough for.... - and - to good for..- and Duolingo didn’t fit well in filling in my gaps, and learning German from English (also a foreign Language) is difficult as I learned German from Dutch in highschool. I think I should try another way to improve my German then through duolingo after doing nothing for a few weeks, I started Duolingo Russian and so far it gives what I need: fun short brain teazers. I have a lot of fun with decoding the alphabet and trying to pronounciate. Goal: being able to pronounciate words in Russian alphabet (so it becomes easier to sing in Russian) I would love to improve my English but I am not sure how to do that.

My tier will not open in the next 2-3 months. And with delays in the delivering pace it might become even the next 6-8 months. Not living in the USA.

I passed the 50 days milestone in Duolingo German (with help of those blue amulets). I still don’t have the idea of learning much new stuff but still repeating what I learned at middle school. Just doing to keep my mind active. I am bad at goalsetting in foreign languages.

Then I'll play with the mailing time until I receive it at a right moment