Postby rdearman » Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:46 pm
Had a strange experiance, my daughter had me writing to an Italian guy she has a date with for a laugh. Turns out he speaks French too, and my daughter got a bit bent out of shape that i was talking to her date more than her, in languages she doesn't understand. LOL. He doesn't do 中文 and my daughter wasn't happy when I installed the chinese keyboard on her phone. Oh well, shouldn't let your dad talk to your dates. Anyway.. "You know your a language geek when you hope your daughters date goes well because he is an Italian who speaks French & Greek."
Not a lot of "language learning" going on for me, just watching Italian TV (il giovanne Monatalbano) and the occasional french film. I'm a bit burned out on anki at the moment, so I'm letting most of the cards lapse again. I always go back later, so it isn't that big a deal for me. I know I should read some grammar books or something, but mostly I just listen to French radio, watch TV and read the occasional book. I'm actually looking forward to the Super Challenge starting, and hoping we can figure out how to host the bot here. I have some books and I keep switching between "I want to read that" and "I'll save if for the Super Challenge". Sad really.
I have managed to get my greedy little hands on a audio book of "Deception Point" by Dan Brown. I have alread read about 1/2 of the paperback I found in a charity shop. So I plan on ripping the audio book to mp3 and loading it on my phone so I can L/R to the book. Means I have to start reading again from the begining, but that isn't really so bad I suppose. Of course... I could save it for the super challenge....
I still have a session with my French tutor and my nieghbour, but these generally just degrade into gossip sessions about the neighbourhood or discussions of the disarray of county council trash collections. But they are at least in French, so probably not all bad. Even now however I have at least one time per lesson where the tutor has to ask me. "Comprendre?" because I'm staring at her blankly. Or I'll start speaking in Italian and both of them just shake their heads at me.
So the plan now is. A bit of LR if I can be bothered. Watch "Spin" tonight in French, watch some more Montalbano, maybe complete a couple of movies I started but didn't complete for various reasons, and if I'm really, really, really bored, try to do some Esperanto. (Sorry Esperanto... but he's just not that into you.)
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