Jeff's language log

[jeff_lindqvist]

2024 - Summary of week 36

Reading. Only one book finished - Kanske i morgon (FR: Demain) by Guillaume Musso. A psychological thriller with a time travel paradox.

During game night we played another round of The Captain is Dead. This time we had a better plan and aced the game. Then, a round of Dick.

The Saturday concert featured old and contemporary vocal music performed by Botkyrka Kammarkör.

The late afternoon/early evening was spent playing fiddle.

DE: More Librivox. I'm reading Glennkill: Ein Schafskrimi by Leonie Swann.

FR: More Duolingo. I watched a documentary which happened to be in French, Deep Time: Utmost Experience Beyond Time.

[jeff_lindqvist]

2024 - Summary of week 37

Reading. Two books finished - You like it darker by Stephen King, and Systrar, väninnor, krigare och hjältinnor by Johanna Vernqvist (editor).

During game night we played Scout and Monikers: Monikers-er.

Cataloguing at work involved titles in Ukrainian. Task completed with the help of a Bulgarian (!) website and my Slavoranto skills intuition.

DE: More Librivox.

FR: More Duolingo.

[jeff_lindqvist]

2024 - Summary of week 38

Reading. One book finished - Vida vatten by Sten Niklasson. It's about seas, seafarers, ghost ships and what not. I also started reading The wake-up call by Beth O'Leary (Flatshare, The no-show etc.).

No game night.

The Saturday concert was organ music by (mostly) J.S. Bach, J M Michel, Bo Ekvall and Stefan Nilsson.

DE: More Librivox. More Glennkill.

FR: More Duolingo.

[Iversen]

Cataloguing at work involved titles in Ukrainian. Task completed with the help of a Bulgarian (!) website and my Slavoranto skills intuition.

I'm curious about this. OK, both languages are written using Cyrillic letters (with some differences), but wouldn't it be more simple to use a translation program?

[jeff_lindqvist]

I'm curious about this. OK, both languages are written using Cyrillic letters (with some differences), but wouldn't it be more simple to use a translation program?

The best search result for the first ISBN was a Bulgarian library entry. For the remaining ones, the best resource was a Ukrainian library. Of course I let GT verify/validate my assumptions, but I still had to copy some Cyrillic text blocks (such as proper names of people and places). And it was faster this way than typing in a semi-alien Cyrillic alphabet.

[jeff_lindqvist]

2024 - Summary of week 39

Reading. One book finished - Camino Island by John Grisham. A mystery thriller about some unique manuscripts that are stolen from a library, and disappear. Where did they go? Perhaps to the basement vault of a local bookstore?

No game night this week. Not even a Saturday concert. However: fiddle practice. Up Donegal!

DE: More Librivox. More Glennkill.

FR: More Duolingo.

[DaveAgain]

DE:

The BBC have a 3 part documentary series on Mozart at the moment, it's sprinkled with quotes from his letters, which are available in German from Projekt Gutenberg.

[jeff_lindqvist]

Thanks, Dave! I don't have access to BBC, but I might take a look at the Gutenberg files!

[jeff_lindqvist]

2024 - Summary of week 40

Reading. Two books finished: Kontraband kontradans : ur ett översättarliv by translator Anders Bodegård, and Rogue protocol by Martha Wells.

No game night this week. No fiddle practice. However, an evening concert with local choir Ad Fontes. Miserere mei, Deu (by Allegri) again. Great stuff!

DE: More Librivox. I also heard German spoken at a café.

FR: More Duolingo.

[jeff_lindqvist]

2024 - Summary of week 41

Reading. Four books finished, including two sequels: Lokattens klor (by Karin Smirnoff) - the eight volume in the Millenium ... franchise (?); Rósa & Björk (by Satu Rämö) - the second volume in the Hildur series. Reykjavik noir!

No game night this week. No fiddle practice either. And no concert.

So, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Han Kang. I haven't read a single line of her works, but remember having seen copies of Vegetarianen (the Swedish translation of 채식주의자 (EN: ”The vegetarian”)).

DE: More Librivox. I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, but I'm watching a series called Sisi, which is about Empress Elisabeth of Austria/Bavaria/Austria-Hungary ... Most of the dialogue is in German, then some phrases in French and Hungarian.

FR: More Duolingo.