It occurred to me today, I've signed up to go to a polyglot conference. WTF was I thinking? The dictionary defines Polyglot as a person able to speak or write several languages; multilingual. Errr.... I'm just a person who studies other languages, I'm not "multilingual" and if I had feelings of inadequacy on this website, I'm truly screwed at a Polyglot conference.
Anyway, probably best not to think about it to much. But it has spurned me on to doing more reviews and watching a few more foreign films. I really, really, really need to bone up on some languages now.
Since my last check-in, I've downloaded some Esperanto anki decks. There are actually quite a few really good Esperanto decks, with audio as well. The problem I have at the moment with my anki decks is I have a lot of audio decks, and frequently forget my headphones. This means I basically can't do them and can only do the couple of decks I have with text only. These are mostly Hanzi, either sentences or single characters. So I decided to get the Esperanto ones which were just text only.
I mentioned a new French TV series (new to me anyway) which was showing on More4 in the UK called Spin (Les Hommes De L'Ombre) which I mentioned here:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1878 in the multi-lingual room. It is really very good. It is about an assassination attempt on the French president and two spin-doctors who try to get their candidates in line for an election. All the characters are very "intertwined" with each other, one spin doctor was the others mentor, etc, etc. Well worth watching even if you aren't learning French and are happy to read English sub-titles.
I also watch about 1/2 of a film called Les Hommes et Les Dieux which is about a monastery of Christian monks in Algiers and is based on a true story.
This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.
It is quite good so far, and I'm planning on watching the rest this weekend.
I haven't done much with Italian or Mandarin this week, but I do plan to pickup watching some Italian TV again. I've watched the TV series "Carabineri" about 1-2 times, all without sub-titles. So I've done about 121,800 hours of watching with this series. The first time through I didn't understand anything, the second time more, I watched the first couple episodes the other day, and they were pretty easy, so it does help to repeat.