Re: Iversen's second multiconfused log thread
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 10:16 am
Since yesterday I have written wordlists of 60-65 words each for Portuguese, Castilian, Catalan, Italian, Romanian, Albanian and Greek, but still not done the repetitions for any of them, nor for Old or New French, so that's my next task before doing wordlists for the Slavic languages etc.
I have not mentioned my Monday language exchange at the library, but here comes: we were 5 persons. One girl would like to train her Russian, another her French, but one elderly lady in the company was only interested in English because - as she said - she wanted to focus her remaining brain powers on one foreign language. And then we ended up speaking English - except for a short period where two of us sneaked away to speak French at another table. Two girls passed by who wanted to speak German, but they left because we were speaking English at the only active table. And the Spanish speaking lady and the Spanish speaker in spe from last week who had said they definitely would turn up this week too didn't show up. This just goes to show how difficult it is to organize anything of this sort if you don't have a stable core of people who try to turn up every time.
PS at 17:20: and now I have also done the reps for all the Romance languages. Albanian and Greek must wait until later. I'm going downtown to discuss art with some people from New York at our local art museum now.
I have not mentioned my Monday language exchange at the library, but here comes: we were 5 persons. One girl would like to train her Russian, another her French, but one elderly lady in the company was only interested in English because - as she said - she wanted to focus her remaining brain powers on one foreign language. And then we ended up speaking English - except for a short period where two of us sneaked away to speak French at another table. Two girls passed by who wanted to speak German, but they left because we were speaking English at the only active table. And the Spanish speaking lady and the Spanish speaker in spe from last week who had said they definitely would turn up this week too didn't show up. This just goes to show how difficult it is to organize anything of this sort if you don't have a stable core of people who try to turn up every time.
PS at 17:20: and now I have also done the reps for all the Romance languages. Albanian and Greek must wait until later. I'm going downtown to discuss art with some people from New York at our local art museum now.