kujichagulia wrote:Let me guess... in that afisha.ru video you are wearing the black shirt with Adidas stripes.
Yes, that's this Euro 2012 t-shirt
Love this logo.
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In other news, I've updated Italian to basic fluency on the old forum and it feels surprisingly important
Belarusian class is going fine, I guess. One thing I've realized is how my annoyance at textbooks corresponds so perfectly to the timing of my empowerment as a feminist. I didn't think of it explicitly but omg there's so much sexism in textbooks and example sentences, I mean beyond the Pimsleur flirting crap. And I wish I could say stereotypes are useless, but I can see how when you're a beginner and barely remember your vocab, it's easier when women in examples/exercises do stuff like cooking, singing, playing the piano, while men work, do sports and do things to/with women.
I mean, I don't think my teacher would describe himself as feminist but he's quite a modern guy, and I can see that he deliberately made sure to have girls in the texts and dialogues. They're just too stereotypical
And of course he didn't pay attention to whether they were the subjects or objects of sentences, or didn't think of the larger implications.
Now that I know though, obviously I can allow myself to skip sexist sentences. Maybe I'll eventually start using grammar books more