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15 minutes ago, Matryoshka said:
Huh. One would think ot would align with your timezone, we have the technology. Is there somewhere in your duolingo that can be set?
I can set the time I want to receive the reminders, but I can't find how to set my timezone... That's why I came here...
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Does anyone knows in what timezone Duolingo is based?
I get my reminders at the wrong times (before or while sleeping) I changed it yesterday but it made it worse. At noon would be nice, but obviously ‘my’ noon, not someone elses noon...
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👋 Hi,
I’m still here!
I managed to read some weeks well, and some weeks less well, I am almost at my goal of reading 100 books, but it will become a cliffhanger if I’ll make it.
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Just now, Matryoshka said:
Aw. 😞 Busy then?
18:00- 19:30 is devoted to singing 🙂
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40 minutes ago, Matryoshka said:
Yes, except for the times when we switch to daylight savings and back at different times than you, we're 6 hrs before you, so noon = 18h for you. 🙂
Then I’ll have to pass...
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10 minutes ago, Penguin said:
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.
I have a better library now, but we don’t have Norwegian books. (We do have English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and I thought a bit of Russian)
I can help you with Dutch, but not with Norwegian...
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Still doing German at DuoLingo.
I am absolutely working at a wrong (too low) level, but I can do this now even on ‘brainfog days’.
As I probably never will use foreign languages for conversations or travels, I am pondering what I want to do, want to reach.
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@Matryoshka would that make 18h in GMT+1 ?
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I can have ‘ heavy’ tinnitus on bad days.
I did not overcome it, but noticed it is (partly) stress related in my case: the more stress I have, the louder the noises are, the more noises I have.
silence stimulates the tinnitus too in my case, so I try to avoid that.
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I only know by name:
- Leonard Cohen
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- Neil Young
- Joni Mitchell-
I have no idea where they come fromI am more a classical / choral music type 🙂
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I like the idea of this thread.
Dutch is my native language, and I am not working on a foreign language specifically for the moment. I don’t know were to start as my English is ‘somewhere in the middle’, and my French and German are just good enough to communicate I don’t speak / understand the language well.
As I don’t learn easily, it should be something I can actually use.
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13 hours ago, Robin M said:
Who hasn't dropped by lately to let us know they are doing okay? @vmsurbat1, @Nan in Mass, @tuesdayschild, @SereneHome, @loesje22000 Anyone else I'm
We are in good physical health for the moment. We have a lockdown light here. But that is heavy enough. With no choir and no church activities life is becoming empty.The exams dd had to take in the Netherlands are cancelled, and the borders are closed so I can’t visit my family now.
I am still reading books 🙂
For the moment I am reading Clementine, a biography about mrs. Churchill.
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I finished Becoming by Michelle Obama,
I am bit by bit reading a teenage retelling of the Decamerone.
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3 hours ago, Pen said:
I don’t know it—by all means talk! when I tried Amazon there are so many similar titles, I am not sure what book you mean. Author name?
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I finished the Marsh daughters King, and Unvisible Women. The latter seems to be a hit for me as I want to talk about it with everybody.
Currently I am reading Becoming by Michelle Obama
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@aggieamy I liked the gifts of imperfection very much, but I can see that not everybody is in every stage of its life in need of it, and I can see that her style won’t speak to everybody.
I feel like I am in a transition stage of my life, and also want to change certain aspects of myself. This book covers some of those aspects in a way that it speaks to me.
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35 minutes ago, Robin M said:
Good morning/afternoon!!!
Good evening 🙂I finished Design your Life, Cloisterwalk and Gifts of imperfection this week.
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On 1/20/2020 at 3:28 AM, tuesdayschild said:
It's taken me from 9am this morning until now, 3pm, to piecemeal read through last weeks thread 😀 I'm just going to post on this new one and come back another day.
Thank you... love the photos shared last week: the pictures are windows into completely different "worlds" to the one I live in.
I have not started The Hobbit yet ... but @Lori D.'s (Amazing) reading notes that mention the trolls, made me think about our cows and how The Hobbit influences our naming of them so often...... the first picture (L front: Tom, back steer is Burt.) Dd named some of 2015's calves after the trolls in The Hobbit... they definitely sport the very troll like booby expression.
“You’re a booby,” said William. “Booby yerself!” said Tom.” Tolkien (I cannot get a picture of William, he's a very, very shy boy and doesn't like the camera.)
This second photo includes three of our most current Hobbitons, Lowline Angus, named after Bilbo's friends: (L to R: Bifur, Bofur, Bombur (hidden), and then Coal, and, Char) A portion of Bilbo's farewell speech rings true for us with these boys, 'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'
They're in the house paddock atm and in this pict had gathered to listen to Dd playing on the piano.
Love your cows!When I was a child the only cows I knew were like this: (photo)
It has taken a while before I believed that other cows were cows too...
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47 minutes ago, Penguin said:
Can anyone tell me how amazon pre-orders work? I place a book on pre-order for the first time ever, and I am confused. The release date was today. I see no record of my pre-order nor it does not show up as an order. And the book shows an out of stock message 😞
It was Hungarian author Magda Szabo's Abigail, in case you are wondering. It was published in Hungary in 1970 but is just now being released in English.
47 minutes ago, Penguin said:Can anyone tell me how amazon pre-orders work? I place a book on pre-order for the first time ever, and I am confused. The release date was today. I see no record of my pre-order nor it does not show up as an order. And the book shows an out of stock message 😞
It was Hungarian author Magda Szabo's Abigail, in case you are wondering. It was published in Hungary in 1970 but is just now being released in English.
sometimes the release dat will be delated. I’ve pre-ordered several books and cd’s and have always get my stuff and often a lower price.-
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1 hour ago, Pen said:
Have any of you read Maus? My son has it for English class, but apparently doesn’t like it at all, especially the graphic novel aspect.
He left Part 2 here available and I’m considering trying to read it tonight while he’s at a friend’s. Maybe after finding a summary of what I missed in part 1. I think the teacher probably chose a graphic novel to be “kid friendly,” but ds says he’d rather read a prose novel. Or prose history.
His favorite teacher last year was his English teacher who nearly always gave reading options. Unfortunately this year’s teacher doesn’t and he is strongly disliking much of what she has chosen, though I think she put a lot of effort into her choices and a whole theme to unify the choices.
I have read Maus threetimes now. Maus is geared for 15+ yo imo, and should never be a first introduction/reading on this part of history. Dd doesn’t like it either so far but emotionally she is younger then her age sometimes.I think it is a great work.
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5 hours ago, Matryoshka said:
Goethe does indeed have florid vocab and syntax (and those Germans with their page-long sentences... 😒). One of the dusties hanging around here shaming me is The Sorrows of Young Werther. Another year - I am going to try to tackle One Hundred Years of Soluitude as my nemesis book for this year...
If you need a reading buddy for Goethe I might to be convinced to read along in Dutch if it is in from June or later in the year.-
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6 minutes ago, Junie said:
thirst-quenching drink
(gently correcting because you put the question mark and I believe that English is not your native language)
I am learning Spanish and I appreciate when people point out a correction. 🙂
Thank you! I put quotation mark indeed when I think it is not correct-english, sometimes my english brain parts wire over back into dutch, which is my native tongue, the dutch is ‘dorst-lessend’ but one definetly doesn’t learn these type of words during highschool english...-
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2 hours ago, mumto2 said:
I hope you feel better soon!
I drank Red Bush pretty exclusively for awhile several years ago. I haven’t had a cup in years. I have moved through several tea brands since and now drink several cups of P&G each day. Yes, even when it is really hot out......some say it is cooling and I wouldn’t say hot tea on a hot day is cooling but warm tea on a hot day is comforting.
Ancillary Justice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333324-ancillary-justice is one of the Sci Fi series that I have as to read on my lists. Did you like it well enough to read more in the series?
I absolutely drink tea on warm or hot days, it is the only thirst-lessing? drank I know-
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Red Bush is the most drinked (as in daily) tea in our home.
dealing with fever and selling homeschool stuff makes concentrating on reading harder as usual.
I finished Imperial Radch #1 though .
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Learning Foreign Languages Thread - December
in The Chat Board
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Then I'll play with the mailing time until I receive it at a right moment