Jeff's language log

[jeff_lindqvist]

2020 - Summary of week 17

Five books finished this week - one of them which I'm sure people here will find more interesting than anything else - The Complete Psionics Handbook (by Steve Winter, for AD&D 2nd Edition). I also watched another Danish series, When The Dust Settles / Når støvet har lagt sig (ten episodes).

EO: Reading in La Sankta Biblio.

FR: Reading fables.

GA: More podcasts.

PT: More stories. More Duolingo lessons.

I was lazy this week.

[rdearman]

2nd edition is the best.

[jeff_lindqvist]

1st edition for the artwork on the hardcover books, 2nd edition for the rules (and campaign settings). Also the Basic Set and Expert Set of BECMI have a special place, for pure nostalgic reasons. (My first encounter with D&D in any incarnation.)

[jeff_lindqvist]

2020 - Summary of week 18

Three or four books finished this week. I watched a Swedish three-part documentary about thefts at the Royal Coin Cabinet (very interesting).

DE: Reading in Der Stumme Tod.

GA: More podcasts. Almost done with the whole series, which means radio programmes from several years. I also studied lessons 35-36 in Cúrsa Gaeilge.

PT: More stories. More Duolingo lessons. Reading in O Alquemista.

[jeff_lindqvist]

2020 - Summary of week 19

A bunch of books finished - among them, some comic books compilations (←each containing three or four normal albums), and the whole Roald Dahl companion volume. Not that it matters, but I counted a compilation as one book, and each section in the Roald Dahl as one (I think they were once published separately).

DE: I finished Der Stumme Tod.

EO: Some reading in La Sankta Biblio. (Is this one book or two, or more?)

FR: I finished the fables.

GA: I finished the podcast series. Then I went to back to the audio from Cúrsa Gaeilge, and finished that as well. Today I picked a new podcast series (which started in late February). I studied lessons 37-48 in Cúrsa Gaeilge, which also means that I finished the course.

PT: More Duolingo. I finished O Alquemista.

[DaveAgain]

2020 - Summary of week 19

A bunch of books finished - among them, some comic books compilations (←each containing three or four normal albums), and the whole Roald Dahl companion volume. Not that it matters, but I counted a compilation as one book, and each section in the Roald Dahl as one (I think they were once published separately).

Can you please tell me a little about this 'Roald Dahl companion'? A web search doesn't bring up anything.

Is this a typo? Is it a compilation of all Mr Dahl's works?

[jeff_lindqvist]

Can you please tell me a little about this 'Roald Dahl companion'? A web search doesn't bring up anything.

Is this a typo? Is it a compilation of all Mr Dahl's works?

It's this one (mentioned a few posts above):
5 Bestsellers Including Over 40 Tales of the Unexpected

[DaveAgain]

Can you please tell me a little about this 'Roald Dahl companion'? A web search doesn't bring up anything.

Is this a typo? Is it a compilation of all Mr Dahl's works?

It's this one (mentioned a few posts above):
5 Bestsellers Including Over 40 Tales of the Unexpected

Thanks. There's a 'Hornblower Companion' book, its mostly fluff, but it includes an essay where Mr Forester explains the beginnings of some stories. I thought this might be something similar from Mr Dahl.

[jeff_lindqvist]

Thanks. There's a 'Hornblower Companion' book, its mostly fluff, but it includes an essay where Mr Forester explains the beginnings of some stories. I thought this might be something similar from Mr Dahl.

I really like the Hornblower stories I've read. Many years ago, I looked for them in second-hand bookstores, only to find that the Swedish translations had been published under different titles in different series/editions with different number of volumes, making it nearly impossible to get the whole picture.
For instance, there is one Swedish title called Linjeskeppet Sutherland which one would assume is A Ship of the Line. But that one has the title Ett linjeskepp, and the ...Sutherland title is a translation of... Hornblower in Captivity, which isn't even part of the original series, but of the heavily edited "Cadet editions". (The third one, it seems. As it happens, based on A Ship of the Line (!) and Flying Colours.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_H ... blications

Talk about lost in translation.

[jeff_lindqvist]

2020 - Summary of week 20

Five books finished this week. Yesterday after finishing a collection of short stories, I grabbed a title which I've had in the bookshelf for ages - Slipt by Alan Dean Foster. I can't remember when/where/why I got it. I haven't read any of the author's works, but yesterday there was something about this book which said READ ME. So far, I like it a lot. (2/3 left.) I also watched the first part of the German dramatization of Siegfried Lenz's Der Überläufer. There's also some Polish dialogue. Just before the weekend, a friend and I had our second session of Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave. I won the first two games a month ago. This time I lost twice.

GA: More podcasts from the new series. I enjoy listening to politics and current affairs even if I don't understand everything. Give me another half year. Or decade.

PT: More Duolingo and stories.