MiaLaGagoo wrote:...you stop asking silly questions
...or when you invent better ones
Basically the progress from "I did the whole RS Mandarin, why am I not fluent?" to "Why can't I find a decent Estonian-Xhosa dictionary?"
MiaLaGagoo wrote:...you stop asking silly questions
Ogrim wrote:When you are back at your favourite cash machine and you are thrilled because they have added a few more languages, including Russian. So you promptly decide that from now on, you will only make your cash withdrawals in the language of Pushkin whenever you are in Valencia.
stelingo wrote:You'll still anxious not to miss your daily study session even when you're feeling ill and have been throwing up.
William Camden wrote:stelingo wrote:You'll still anxious not to miss your daily study session even when you're feeling ill and have been throwing up.
After she moved to Russia, Catherine the Great was so keen to learn Russian (she was a German princess by origin, from Anhalt-Zerbst) that she took Russian lessons even in winter in an insufficiently heated room, and barely survived a bout of pneumonia as a result.
rdearman wrote:Pneumonia is caused by bacteria, not cold rooms.
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health ... pnu/causes
Rhian wrote:rdearman wrote:Pneumonia is caused by bacteria, not cold rooms.
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health ... pnu/causes
When people these days still go to doctors for antiobiotics for a cold or don't read patient information leaflets thus incorrectly dosing their meds we can hardly be surprised 18th C. Russia was a bit off on biology anyway can't the cold somewhat supress your immune system thus making you more susceptible to illness? Perhaps it is negligible for most people these days but in the days where hygiene, sanitation and medicine were lacking maybe it did make a difference.
Now I need to make an on-topic point. Ermmmmm when you still practise your French pronunciation even though your cold is so bad not even your closest friends recognise you?
Rhian wrote:rdearman wrote:Pneumonia is caused by bacteria, not cold rooms.
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health ... pnu/causes
When people these days still go to doctors for antiobiotics for a cold or don't read patient information leaflets thus incorrectly dosing their meds we can hardly be surprised 18th C. Russia was a bit off on biology anyway can't the cold somewhat supress your immune system thus making you more susceptible to illness? Perhaps it is negligible for most people these days but in the days where hygiene, sanitation and medicine were lacking maybe it did make a difference.
Now I need to make an on-topic point. Ermmmmm when you still practise your French pronunciation even though your cold is so bad not even your closest friends recognise you?
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