No worries, Lawyer&Mom. I'll find a way to get a copy somehow. I'll just have to wait a bit and that's OK.
Is anyone doing the
Language Jam planned for this weekend? Someone at Duolingo made a post about it but it's too late for me--for something like that I would need more than a few days to psych myself up. But out of curiosity, I went through the selection process, and I entered once with Scottish Gaelic and a second time with French, and I got Swedish with Spanish as the alternate and Arabic with Japanese as the alternate respectively. Doing any of those languages for it would have been cool if I had known about it earlier, but I just don't feel like 3 days is enough to get myself geared up for that. So I'll wait and hopefully I will be able to do another time later on.
The construction nightmare on my street continues. It's made walking impossible--during the day, they're making too much noise and it's too upsetting for my dog. We live on the corner and it's hard to just take her out in the backyard to potty because she wants to bark at all the workers. She's had enough of this and I don't blame her. Likewise it's hard to hear my MP3 player over some of the noise. After sundown, because of how poorly they have things barricaded off with big machinery parked here and there and without a proper detour route around it all, it seems very unsafe as drivers don't know where to go and they probably aren't looking out for mentally preoccupied walkers shadowing language learning audio while walking their dog (plus we have a distinct lack of streetlights around here). I would drive outside of my neighborhood with my dog, but due to my recent cardiac scare, walking that far from my house seems too risky. I don't want to have to try to get back to my car and try to drive home during a tachycardia attack or something.
They just need to finish this stupid construction already--it's been going on a month now!
I watched
Je t'aime, je t'aime again today. I first watched that a few years ago for my TAC at Unilang. I definitely was able to understand the dialogue much better this time! It's not the best movie ever but I have a thing for old sci fi movies. A lot of elements of the story are pretty dated but I enjoy the kind of freer imagination filmmakers had about sci fi films back then--now it's all so formulaic and predictable, even when they try to break away from that (*cough*
Annihilation *cough*). The first time I watched this movie it was an extremely poor digital copy posted on some funky, probably not very legal streaming site, and it was before the DVD/Blu-ray release. The copy I saw today is someone's upload of the DVD release on a different video upload site, so the quality was much, much better (although probably not any more legal). Anyhow, another thing to add to my SC total when I update it next.
I haven't had time to look for French short story this week so I'm just going to this
easy Irish short story, even though it has parallel English text. I've been pushing myself pretty hard with the SSC so far so I think I can get away with taking it easy this week.
Speaking of Irish, I was rather annoyed with the Jeopardy! writers today: the word
goblet does not come from the Irish word
gob. It actually predates Modern Irish. It comes from the Proto-Celtic word
gobbos that is the root of both
gob in Irish and
gober (to gulp, consume or ingest) in Old French. You know you're a Celtic Language Nerd with you get super irked by people using Irish as a short-hand for All Celtic Languages Ever because they assume it's all too hard to explain to people.
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The 2019 365 Day Language Challenge : - Day 43 (Feb. 12) -- French: On Duolingo, I got all units from teh 3rd and 4th checkpoint leveled from 3 crowns (red) to 4 crowns (orange). Finished the last entry I had started in my journal.
- Day 44 (Feb. 13) -- French: On Doulingo, I leveled up 3 more units to 4 crowns (orange). Did two 20-minutes verb conjugation practice sessions.