Postby IronMike » Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:40 am
Looks like my twice-weekly 2-hour class online with DLI is set-up to start on Monday, 13 April. w00t! Can't wait. It'll be six weeks long, only one Monday off (Memorial Day), so 22 hours of one-on-one.
Due to COVID-19, I no longer have to take the DLPT by August. I get another few months; will probably take the DLPT/OPI now in late November/early December. I'll probably do another DLI online class after the summer. Why after the summer?
Well, a few of my plans have changed in light of the "new world order." The annual international Esperanto conference (Universala Kongreso) will be postponed. It was to be in early August in Montreal. The Congress comes to North America like once a decade, so I was excited that I was a) stationed in the US when b) the UK was to be held in North America. Oh well. Small price to pay to help defeat this virus.
But, that said, my original plan was to DLPT/OPI in Russian by end of May, then use all June and July to work on my productive skills in Esperanto in prep for my KER exam during the UK. But now that the UK isn't happening...
Where I work is a young lady originally from Denmark. I've used my limited (3 phrases, maybe) Danish with her and she's so thankful that someone will speak Danish to her that it got me thinking. If I don't need to do special work on Esperanto over the summer, and I can take a break from Russian, well then...
So I told her today that perhaps in the summer I'll start buying her lunch once a week to go over Danish. Why not? I've always loved picking languages based on "resources" I had nearby. Thus my attempt at Tagalog in the late '90s when we had a Filipina neighbor. Or of course working on Kyrgyz when we lived in Bishkek. And of course Russian in Moscow.
Bottom line, maybe my plan will change with a 3-month foray into Danish June-August this year. Who knows? We'll see!
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