I had trouble sleeping last night, so during my awake periods I read articles in the Culture section of
Huffingtonpost.fr. When I eventually got more than an hour's sleep, I had another silly dream in French. In this dream, someone was trying to persuade me that Falstaff died offstage from syphilis but I just kept saying « Mais rien n'indique cela dans le texte anglais original ! » and told her that the line she quoted as evidence was from one of Shakespeare's sonnets and not from
Henry IV.
I'm nerd-raging over Shakespeare in French in my dreams.
That also reminds me that I want to read some Shakespeare in French for my SC.
Shadow-walkingThe last three days, including today, I've walked 25 minutes without breaks. I have been using the audio from the FSI Sub-Saharan French FAST course this weeks for my walks. I'm curious about the course and I just wanted to see what it teaches--so far, nothing new for me.
SwedishI am also looking at the FSI Basic Swedish course. I'm not a beginner with Swedish but I'm struggling to get back to studying it. I kind of had an epiphany the other day about why: my motivation for studying Swedish, unlike most of my other TLs, is almost purely social. Yet studying it has largely been a solitary activity, so it feels like I'm not approaching it in a way that will get me where I want to be with it. I think now that I'm more conscious of the cognitive dissonance I'm experiencing with teaching myself Swedish, I can cope with it. The FSI course seems like a nice, structured avenue to get back into studying it, since I just can't get myself motivated to work on Swedish on Clozemaster or Duolingo at the moment. I also need to look into things like Swedish TV and social media to help motivate me as well.
JapaneseI started using the NHK ELer Japanese app this week. I've been anxious ot get started with Japanese again and an app is a little easier to use while resting in bed than my Kanji workbook (although I do have a lap table and a small clip-on lamp specifically for studying in bed
). I'm aiming for doing that every other day. Right now I'm doing a mix of the lessons (mostly review for me) and trying to read some of the Easy News.
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The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge : - Day 17 -- Gaelic/Irish: Wrote an entry in my Gaelic journal, about the vegetable and bean soup I made for dinner the night before; reviewed 5 more decayed units on my Duolingo Irish tree
- Day 18 -- French: Did exercises 9.7, 9.8, 9.9 and 9.10 in French Sentence Builder, completing Unit 9; started an entry in my journal about the dream I had last night--didn't finish it but wrote over 100 words