DaveAgain wrote:The Skye boat song (over the sea to Skye) is a song you used to learn in primary school in the UK.AroAro wrote:
Reading - still reading "His Bloody Project", a very engaging book. Even though we know from the very beginning who the murder is, the story is very compelling and I really liked that it's set in rural Scotland, in a village of Culduie that happens to really exist and is located near Isle of Skye (many, many years ago I worked on Isle of Skye during one summer - seems like it was in another life! - and could see the landscapes described in the book with my own eyes). I'm reading a paper book so I had to check some unknown words in my pocket dictionary, mainly related to rural Scotland - ghillie, fleece, flaughter, peat. I'm pretty sure I knew what peat means but somehow I forgot it.
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I had to look up flaughter too!
That's a nice song! I had to check the images on Google to get the idea of what a flaugher actually looks like:)
WEEKLY UPDATE
One of the teachers from my son's kindergarten was tested positive for Covid so he has to stay 10 days on quarantine, and that means I have to call in sick and stay with him - result: there won't be much language learning next week! Never mind, I just hope all the kids will be fine.
Russian - lesson 57 of "Perfectionnement Russe". I listened to the episode about Patrick White from "Литературный Нобель" and it was actually quite easy to follow (maybe because the guest was a woman and women generally speak more clearly?) whereas the episode about green energy from "Не верю!" was really hard
Hebrew - I did the first 3 lessons from "Hebrajski dla początkujących" - learned lots of phrases that are used in everyday life. Learned 487/625 words from Memrise
Reading - I finished "His Bloody Project" - the last 30-40 pages that described the trial were not that easy, the register was definitely different in comparison to the first part of the book which included the memoir of the murderer. I saw the verb to aver for the first time ever and had to check its meaning. Now, I'm reading Robert D. Kaplan's "Balkan Ghosts" in Polish translation. I already have some issues with this book but will give an opinion once read.