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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:36 pm

2022 - Summary of week 34

Two books finished: a non-fiction book about the financial sector in London - Simma med hajar (lit. "swimming with sharks", original title in Dutch: Dit kan niet waar zijn; by Joris Luyendijk), and the crime/thriller Trickster (by Caroline Grimwalker). Both were very good, in very different ways.

Thursday night game! Some of us met at the local society for a game of Wingspan. I came last.

I've almost finished watching an eight-part German-Danish series called Under ytan / Tod von Freunden. It is set in Flensburg which we all now is close to the Danish border. The bilingualism is shown in the series. Some of the actors are Danish and code-switch every now and again.

I have a few episodes left of the Norwegian series Livstid - the variety of accents is music to my ears.

IT: Loyal Books. I also downloaded some of the News in Slow Italian podcasts.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese.
15 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Sep 04, 2022 4:55 pm

2022 - Summary of week 35

Back to work after a few weeks vacation. One book finished: the British thriller Mannen på gatan (Man on the Streets; Trevor Wood). No game night this week. Season 2 of Bäst i test Norge is now available on SVT Play. 3/5 come from Bergen. :) I also watched the first two episodes of Outlander (some sentences in Gaelic).

IT: News in Slow Italian. No stress.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese.
12 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Sep 18, 2022 3:40 pm

2022 - Summary of week 36

Time for a late update. One book finished: Sanningen om IKEA (by Johan Stenebo). This week the group met for another game of Mansions of Madness. We lost. At the end of the week I started watching Cobra Kai. Nostalgia galore.

IT: News in Slow Italian.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese.
13 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sat Sep 24, 2022 3:56 pm

2022 - Summary of week 37

Time for a late reply. Two books finished: Miljoner på spåret (a biography about the Swedish investor Lennart Israelsson, written by Ulla Sundin Beck). Then Tunn is, the first thriller by Carolina Angelis (I read the second one a few weeks ago). No games this week.

The Friday evening was spent in a session with my music friends. Nearly four hours of tunes.

IT: News in Slow Italian.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese.
12 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Oct 02, 2022 3:35 pm

2022 - Summary of week 38

Time for another late update. (Catching up!) Two books finished: Bubblan som aldrig sprack - internetpionjärerna som skapade det svenska techundret (by Christian Albinsson) - about the dot-com bubble and how the pioneers paved the way for the tech companies like Spotify, Skype etc.; then Ett fynd att dö för (by Anders de la Motte and Måns Nilsson) - the second volume in a crime series taking place in the Österlen region of Skåne.

This week we played Unsettled which is a cooperative game where you do your best to survive on a planet, completing various tasks.

I finished the fifth season of Cobra Kai.

IT: News in Slow Italian. No more "Beginner" episodes. I continued with series.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese. Slow but steady wins the race.
15 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sat Oct 08, 2022 3:56 pm

2022 - Summary of week 39

Yet another late update. One book finished: Lågorna by Lina Bengtsdotter. Crime, as you may have guessed.

This week, part of the gaming group met elsewhere. We played Joking Hazard, which is similar to Cards against the humanity, although mostly image-based. Then a game of Wingspan (I lost, again!).

IT: News in Slow Italian - series.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese. I'm going very slow these days.
13 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:34 pm

2022 - Summary of week 40

...and finally an update in time. One book finished: Ingen ska skonas by Johan Brännström. This is the third title in a crime series about Mikaela Sköld. Some parts reminded me of Lars Kepler's works.

This week, the gaming group re-played a failed scenario of Mansions of Madness. Failure again!

IT: News in Slow Italian - series.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese. For each thing introduced, I create my own drills (inspired by other sources). Even a short lesson has a lot of material. As an example, dialogue 1 from lesson 1 introduces nothing less than pronouns (singular + plural), surnames + titles (Mr/Mrs/Miss), adjectives/verbs ("good"/"to be good"), question particle, follow-up questions, and the word for "also". Someone like Michel Thomas could keep a student busy for quite some time. Dialogue 2 has people and nationalities, negatives, another way to ask questions (verb-not-verb + a) and finally the unspoken "if". And if this wasn't enough, I repeat the names of the wing chun techniques aloud while doing the forms. 8-)
12 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:38 pm

2022 - Summary of week 41

Another update in time. One book finished: Låt den onde sova (Eng: Let the devil sleep) by John Verdon. I happened to start with the second book in the series about homicide detective Dave Gurney. Luckily, the library also has the first and third book.

No games this week.

The other gaeilgeoir in the area sent me a list of English contronyms (or auto-antonyms) - words that have two contradictory meanings. I found an even longer list:
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-con ... -meanings/

Interesting reading!

GA: The brain behind Youtube suggested that I watch a clip from the Drogheda Folk Festival:


Nice to hear some Irish!

IT: News in Slow Italian - series.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese.
12 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Tue Oct 25, 2022 3:28 pm

2022 - Summary of week 42

Almost in time. One game of Mansions of Madness. Investigators: Leo Anderson, Marie Lambeau, Jim Culver and Joe Diamond. The first turn took 30 minutes. Very cool map. Lots of threats. Marie got Lost in Time and Space the first turn. (But got back the second turn.) Eventually Joe Diamond got both wounded and insane, possibly in the same turn. Also Marie got insane. In the end Joe didn't make it. Failure.

I applied for a number of mini courses starting next semester.

No books finished - I was out of town for a couple of days. For regular readers of my log, that rarely happens. This time there was a music festival in one of the big cities. It's very unlikely that I'll travel again, for at least half a dozen of reasons.

IT: News in Slow Italian - series.

YUE: Another week of TY Cantonese.
12 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Posts: 3135
Joined: Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:52 pm
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Tue Nov 01, 2022 4:44 pm

2022 - Summary of week 43

Almost in time. No game this week. I was too tired after the trip.

There was a music session on Friday - not a bad way to end a workweek. I had a great time.

IT: News in Slow Italian - series.
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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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