I cannot fit all my progress bars into my sig, so I will need to keep these in the log. The three in my sig are my double SCs so they will be the ones I spend the most time on.
Germanic : : Russian : : Unless I missed a more recent post, it looks like I haven't updated my SC progress bars since November 14.
I should add "Timely updates to my SC progress" to my New Years resolutions.
I wrote around 800 words of Irish last night, and had to stop because my cats were making it impossible. I know that sounds like an excuse, but really, they're a couple of little terrors when they want to be. They're both Siamese mixes, so you know, they can't help it.
It's partly my fault for waiting until late evening, which is when they're at their worst. Anyhow, I got a new notebook (I'll share a pic of it when its companion arrives) and I was typing and then jotting notes in my notebook and they were like, "Ooo, what's mommy doing instead of paying attention to us?" and insisted on knocking stuff down and trying to sit on my brand new notebook. When one of them batted my favorite eraser (I write in pencil mostly) somewhere that I've still yet to locate, I just gave up for the night.
I wrote about 700 words of French today. I got cut short because my new headset with mic, plus the new keyboard I ordered with it, arrived, which I wasn't expecting as it's Sunday and the estimated arrival date was tomorrow. But I got busy setting that up and making sure it all works. Now I don't feel like writing anything else although I will try to do a dictation in French before going to bed.
Right now, I'm just writing about banal stuff like ordering the headset and spending too much time playing
Stardew Valley. When I get into a more solid routine I'll use writing/speaking prompt to push myself to write about more varied topics.
I started the Belter Creole courses on Memrise--one is a "phrasebook" sort of course that is nice because it has phrases from which I can deduce the general syntax and grammar they are using (it reminds me a lot of Tagalog although probably not anywhere nearly as complicated) and the other course seems more like just straight vocabulary. I noticed on the leaderboards nearly all the people seem new to Memrise which I think it pretty cool. I'm all for people getting interested in languages by whatever stokes their curiosity. And as we here all know, once they're through the front door to the world of language learning, they're pretty much trapped forever.
SC bookkeeping:As for my SCs, my
Metro 2033 parallel reading in Russian, German and Spanish came to a grinding halt around Christmas. I plan to get back to that this week. I paused reading
Dune in Spanish to reread one of my library books because I want to return them soon and check out something else. And shoutout to the Spanish language publisher Destino for printing books with reasonably sized font--so many Spanish books use painfully tiny font and I hate it!
I finished my Verlaine biography and will start the Corto Maltese novel next for French. And for Celtic languages, I'm mostly reading short stories in Gaelic at the moment because they're fast and convenient.
For films/TV/podcast, I have mostly been watching
Ros na Rún and stuff on Clic and Brezhoweb for Celtic languages, podcasts of RFI for French and trying to finish up other series I've started.
This is what I've added to my totals that hasn't been previously recorded here already--everything that is recorded this log up to this post is now added to the progress bars:
Celtic:Ene(z), 4 rann
Corto Maltese : Sonenn ar mor sall Merc'her beure, 5 rann
Un Bore Mercher, 3 pennod
Rownd a Rownd, 6 pennod
Ros na Rún - 5 éipeasoidí
An tIriseor (athleughadh) - 152 pages
3 sgeulachdan goirid à
Còco is Crùbagan - 11 pages
2 sgeulach goirid à
Caogad san Fhàsach - 27 pages
French:RFI appels sur l’actualité, 6 émissions
Verlaine par Jean-Baptiste Baronian
Spanish:Klaus (audio en español)
Selena (audio en español), 2 episodes
Zelic: la nueva tierra (releer)
Germanic:Barbaren, 2 Folgen
Babylon Berlin, 1 Folgen
Toon, 2 afleveringen
Russian:Нюхач, 3 epsidoes
Ведьмак (The Witcher), 1 episode