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

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Re: IronMike's 2023 log (EO & RUS)

Postby IronMike » Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:49 pm

Family still in town, but gone tomorrow. Russian study will be more focused when they leave. Still, I'd rather they be here for all time! (I'm not one of those dads who dreams/dreamed of the days when the kids would be out of the house. I miss the noise!)

I had thought about reading the Bible over a year, but in Esperanto! But I'm already bored. Really, it just takes up too much time when I could be reading.

I'm also considering changing my Russian L-R novel to Пробуждение Левиафана (Leviathan Wakes, by James SA Corey). I've read The Martian (my current L-R) a couple times in English and Russian, but I've only read Leviathan Wakes in English (although I had started reading the Russian edition a couple times, just never got very far).

Been listening to the podcasts Что это было and Как это по-русски. Like them both. Listened a couple times to a delightful episode where the podcast creator asked her colleagues about what New Years songs they remember fondly. Very nice and great, off the cuff Russian in that episode. (If interested, here it is: Феномен новогодних песен.)
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS,BCS,EGY)

Postby lichtrausch » Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:43 am

IronMike wrote:In other news, I'm about to finish my 87th book of the year.

That's impressive. Are you just a really fast reader or are there some other factors?
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS,BCS,EGY)

Postby rdearman » Fri Jan 06, 2023 10:16 am

lichtrausch wrote:
IronMike wrote:In other news, I'm about to finish my 87th book of the year.

That's impressive. Are you just a really fast reader or are there some other factors?

I just worked out you were quoting a post from December! I was thinking 87 books and we're only on the 6th of January! :lol:
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS,BCS,EGY)

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:25 pm

rdearman wrote:I just worked out you were quoting a post from December! I was thinking 87 books and we're only on the 6th of January! :lol:


That would have been fast even for my reading speed. :D
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS,BCS,EGY)

Postby IronMike » Sat Jan 07, 2023 1:12 am

lichtrausch wrote:
IronMike wrote:In other news, I'm about to finish my 87th book of the year.

That's impressive. Are you just a really fast reader or are there some other factors?

Pretty fast reader, but I also fit in reading in places most people don't: driving to/from work; walking the dog; when I can't sleep at night. I of course mean audible books. But also ebooks or real books between sets in the gym (home gym, so I'm not putting anyone out) and many weekends all I do the first few hours after waking is read.
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Re: IronMike's 2023 log: Fewer means better, right? (EO & RUS)

Postby IronMike » Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:05 am

Planning on going to NASK this year. Paid for it last year, but then our move happened that very week, and I wouldn't do that to my wife. (I wouldn't be typing this now because she'd have killed me!)

And this time, they're holding a Translation class prior to NASK. Right up my alley! I've been translating my favorite Eo book, Mi Stelojn Jungis al Revado (I hang stars onto my dreams...or smthg like that), slowly but surely. I really think this class is made for me!

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

Postby IronMike » Fri Jan 27, 2023 1:54 am

Finishing up a week-long Russian course on Science & Technology. Hopefully it'll help me out with the DLPT next month. Scary, long-ass articles. The one today was on quantum computing. Jeez, the vocab.

The instructor did have us start watching Лучше чем люди/Better than us. Basically, the Russian version of Humans. Pretty good so far. Main actor is from The Sniffer. And his son's played by the actor from To The Lake. So far, I like the show. Not that I need another show to watch, but at least it's in Russian.
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Re: IronMike's 2023 log: Fewer means better, right? (EO & RUS)

Postby IronMike » Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:26 pm

In Namibia now and heard one of the click languages in action. Had to bolt to catch my transportation, but next time I hear it, I'll stop and ask the speakers which one it is. Sounded so cool!
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Re: IronMike's 2023 log: Fewer means better, right? (EO & RUS)

Postby DaveAgain » Sun Feb 19, 2023 5:44 pm

IronMike wrote:In Namibia now
Watch out for snakes!

[I read Roald Dahl's Going Solo a while back, so I'm an authentic-internet-expert on Namibian snakes. :-)]
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Re: IronMike's 2023 log: Fewer means better, right? (EO & RUS)

Postby IronMike » Wed Mar 01, 2023 12:25 am

Back from Namibia; the First Lady's trip was a success!

The language I heard turned out to be Demara/Nama. It has 5 clicks. Only one of which I can replicate. Met a very nice woman named Susan who spent 15 minutes trying to teach me the clicks. Unsuccessfully. Even when I got the one right, I couldn't follow it with a consonant or vowel. Yikes.

While there, besides Nama, I heard Afrikans, German, English, French, Russian, and Italian. It was wonderful.

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