IronMike's 2023 log: Fewer means better, right? (EO & RUS)

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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:19 pm

Federal government is closed today due to the snow, but I believe my online class with DLI is still a go. That's the beauty of teleworking. Looking forward to it. Been lazy. All the kids except our youngest are gone now, but even she'll be gone tomorrow, flying down to GA to visit her sister for a week or so. Her university classes don't start back until the 24th. :o

In other news, I feel a lot better now. Sore throat is gone. Slept in again but why not?

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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby sfuqua » Tue Jan 04, 2022 5:38 am

Can you tell us more about the DLPT/OPI as you go through it?
My recent experience with the ODP https://oda.dliflc.edu/ has impressed me.
I've read the descriptions online and it sounds like a beast. :D
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Tue Jan 04, 2022 10:28 pm

sfuqua wrote:Can ykou tell us more about the DLPT/OPI as you go through it?
My recent experience with the ODP https://oda.dliflc.edu/ has impressed me.
I've read the descriptions online and it sounds like a beast. :D

Most certainly. Been taking them for 35 years now. Got lots of opinions.

If you want to know how the Reading DLPT feels: take 65 short articles (30-50 words for levels 0+ to 1, 50-100 words for 1+ to 2, 100-300 words for 2+ to 3), create 1-4 questions for each article (no, you won't find out if you got a question correct), then limit yourself to 180 minutes to complete the test. Whether you take the headache pills before or after the test is up to you. :lol: It is most certainly a beast.

Yesterday was day one of my 5-week class with the DLI teacher. Same teacher as last year! She was a huge reason I got 3/3 last year, so will suffer her beating me over the head because I know it'll be good for me. We did Economics yday, a subject I'm not too jazzed about, but the DLPT sure is. Specifically we read this article by the rector of the higher school of economics in Moscow, Yaroslav Kuzminov, "Poverty and inequality are putting the breaks on the growth of (Russia's) economy." Got plenty of homework for Thursday's class.

In addition to the class, I started yday with watching at least 10 minutes of Russian news. Just letting it soak in.
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby Caromarlyse » Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:09 am

Ooh, economics is on the list of topics I can choose from for my Russian classes. I've opted for something I'm more familiar with to start with, but you might have just prompted me to go for that next (probably not for another couple of months or so).
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Sun Jan 09, 2022 5:13 pm

We discussed the protests in Kazakhstan during Thursday's class. Lots going on over there.

For Monday she assigned me an article by Andrei Kortunov, his forecast for 2022 "without alarmism." There's hope in his forecast, which I am for; I miss the good Russian-US relationship we had when I first lived there. Would be nice if we could be friends again. ((
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:15 am

Assignments for Thursday are some Youtube segments of an interview entitled Poor People of a Rich Country, with Geographer-Economist Natalya Zubaryevich (hmmm...). Very good and her Russian is nice and understandable.

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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Tue Jan 18, 2022 11:57 pm

Been listening to Что это было? from BBC. Today I listened to one from a week or so again, and teh BBC guy was talking with a correspondent in Al-Maty, and several times during the broadcast a huge loud alarm went off. The first time it came up it sounded like dogs in the background. Poor guy had to keep stopping, and even once the hotel guard came back and started asking him what he was doing in the lobby. Always fun!
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:59 pm

Been listening to the wonderfully researched book Gulag. I have nothing bad to say about the book. But I do have something bad to say about the Audible version.

Now I understand. Most people who have not studied Russian have no idea how Russian words are pronounced. Thus, all those out there saying "sput-nik" versus "spoot-nik". Or "Rus-keez" versus "Roos-keez."

But then I thought: If you're reading a 560+ page non-fiction book on gulags, you might actually know how to pronounce Russian words. At the very least, perhaps the publisher or whoever is in charge of turning a print book into an Audible, would prep a transliteration guide for the narrator.

Unfortunately, not for Gulag. In Gulag we get doozies like "kuh-RAH-sho" for хорошо. Or "dez-hur-NAI-yah" for дежурная. Or my current favorite, about the 1920's Gulag project to build a damn on the White Sea: "BEH-low MOHR" for белое море. I believe the narrator must know or have studied German: "OH-sheep" Mandelstam. Ugh.

In other news, no Russian class yesterday afternoon. Last Friday afternoon our heater/furnace kicked the bucket. I called the property manager (we're renting now) after-hours emergency line, and after the kid got all my info, he told me: OK sir, someone from the office will call you next business day. Um, excuse me? It's supposed to be 15 degrees F tonight and we have no heater. And you expect me to wait till Monday?

"Oh ok. I'll select "Emergency" in our system." Geez, thanks.

Long story long, Saturday morning brought Donny who messed around for a while and told us that he needed a part that he couldn't check if they have till Monday morning. So we had 3 nights of a house at 47F. Monday came and thank goodness Donny had the part. By 16.35, we had heat. And I had only 25 minutes left of Russian class, which I did not do. (No reason to have my instructor hanging on for an hour and a half just in case; I canceled my attendance earlier in the day.)

DLPT 16/17 Feb. OPI 14 Feb. Hoping again for 3/3 and 2+ on the OPI. If I get a 3 on Reading, I'm signing up immediately for the upper level DLPT. We'll see.
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby Cerebral_Arbitrage » Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:03 am

IronMike wrote:So we had 3 nights of a house at 47F. Monday came and thank goodness Donny had the part. By 16.35, we had heat.


Yikes! Sounds almost like a Gulag-esque temperature at your place. Good thing Donny found that part and there was a happy ending.
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:51 am

So this past Friday evening we heard the tell-tale sounds of the furnace breaking again. That was the third weekend in a row. Saturday late morning, the repair guy told me that if it happens again, we should wait till a business day, because they would need to speak to the actual manufacturer. They replaced every part in the furnace so far; the only thing to do if this keeps happening is to talk the people who made the furnace and ask, WTF?

Russian class ended on Thursday and I think I have an even chance of repeating the 3/3. We'll see. My OPI is a week from today, and the DLPT next Wed and Thur. If I get a 3 on Reading, I'm going to sign up for the upper level DLPT. Otherwise I'll put Russian aside for a while as I've got to get my Esperanto up to snuff as I'm going to NASK this year and signed up for the advanced class (C1 required). Looking forward to class, @Meddysong!
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