3 AugustI spent most of today at an Esperanto event.
RussianI managed to fit 6 minutes of Memrise into a small gap in the morning, but couldn't get any serious Russian studying done until I got home in the evening. Once I did, I started chapter 10 of 'Colloquial Russian', which does feel vaguely familiar so I think I did start this chapter last time around. I read through all the dialogues and texts at the start of the chapter, but gave up when I got to the start of the grammar points and realised that this chapter was about verbs of motion
Total time = 35 minutes. Streak = 215 daysEsperantoThis must have been one of the first times in years that I enjoyed speaking Esperanto
I mean, I don't speak Esperanto very often these days and when I do it's at the annual Esperanto conference, which is an event that has lots of negative connotations for me. But today was quite nice
I was sort of gatecrashing a course for intermediate speakers, but given how rusty my Esperanto feels at the moment, that didn't seem unreasonable. We had a discussion about a couple of straightforward topics (interesting facts and things we don't like about Esperanto grammar) and then did some grammar exercises which were really, really hard. The first set was about the accusative and I didn't do too badly on those. The second was on the use of "da" and it brought home to me that I've probably never even tried to learn the rules about the proper use of "da". I managed to get some of the sentences correct, but based only on instinct as to whether something sounded right or wrong rather than any actual understanding of the rules. So I definitely learned something today. Perhaps one of these days I should actually make time to read my boyfriend's Esperanto textbook
4 AugustI was out of the house for most of today as well, so I didn't get as much language stuff done as I hoped. I haven't done any Bulgarian all weekend
But I did get quite a bit of logistical planning done for my upcoming trip to Romania and Bulgaria.
RussianI ignored Memrise today, so my reviews will be horrible tomorrow. Instead I concentrated on 'Colloquial Russian' and started making notes on verbs of motion. 34 minutes was only enough to get through about half of the grammar points so I'll have to come back to it tomorrow evening.
Total time = 34 minutes. Streak = 216 daysCroatianI've started reading 'Pakao u Madridu', which is a Croatian translation of 'Winter in Madrid'. I read this in English years ago (at which point I'd never been to Madrid) and was really excited to get it in Croatian for Christmas. I actually wanted to read it straight away when I got it, but managed to restrain myself with the thought that it would be better to read it over the summer, ahead of going to Spain for a weekend at the end of August. That trip may no longer be happening because of airport strikes, but now still seemed like a good time to start the book