I've got some travel coming up later in the year, so I've been trying to get my head around the Thai alphabet. It's weird trying to learn some things about a language, without having a long term goal to really know it.
But on the flipside of that, still trying to maintain Japanese. Doing a different podcast approach, re-listening to episodes and reading/mining the transcripts. It's been kinda helpful.
Continuing on with my summer reading, I've picked up I, Robot (Asimov) and Professor and the Madman (Winchester) from the library.
I also checked out Hatchet (Paulsen). My niece is reading it, figured it'd be fun and quick to join in.
On the listening side, I've been going through Disrupting the Game by Reggie Fils-Aime since he reads the audiobook himself. It's very directed towards the business advice angle, but there's good biographical and Nintendo history info in there.
Was talking to a young adult relative the other day, and he was telling me about one of the new Call of Duty games.
I haven't played one lately, so I mentioned something I thought was neat in World at War or Black Ops 1. And he's like, "Wow, that's an old one. I don't think I was even born yet."
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My backlog gets daunting too. I'll get real motivated one week and add a bunch of cards, to then get busy another week and fall behind.
I just try to keep reminding myself the spaced-repetition system will work itself out.
Yeah, it is kinda sad. But Lemmy is small, so we get what we get.
Searching for communities for French, I see 2 or 3 that look OK (but pretty quiet). Then the more frustrating part is there's not a clear standout to try and breathe life into.
Higher level comms like this one offer a place at least. Learning languages share a good bit in common, even with totally different targets.
Like another comment mentioned, questions or topics that are specific to learning French are welcome here!
Why are they freezing?
When we go to the beach on vacation each year I always make a point to stop in the local bookshop. Selection and moreso price aren't great, but it's always so much fun just to look around.
Went the past week and picked up:
Well that's installing from disc but still using it to play the game, a precursor to the way it continued to work on future Xboxes (with the differences that install was optional on 360, and that on later Xboxes sometimes games required a download to even install).
This rumor would have to be a step further.
This is my favorite game ever. Enjoy the playthrough! Try to see it with young, wonder-filled eyes.
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
Shine On is so beaitiful. Then the middle songs, especially the title track, scratch that more catchy, accessible itch.
Years ago I looked into lucid dreaming and found that those communities have catalogged several actions that can act as "reality checks".
Generally in a dream, some things pretty consistently don't work right. Clocks/watches, mirrors, light switches. Check one of those and see if anything looks weird. If it makes no sense, probable that you're dreaming.
Try to remember the sequence of events that led to what you're doing now. In a dream, there wasn't anything before.
Or my personal favorite, plug your nose and then try to breathe through it. In a dream it will work.
There's quite a range of other methods out there too.
It's definitely a bigger undertaking than I initially thought! At first, having done mostly Japanese recently, I just saw that Thai had something like an alphabet and was relieved. But I'd really underestimated how confusing it'd be to have very different phonetics and resultingly confusing symbols.
Still, I feel like if I'm going to a place, I should know at least a little of the language. And trying to learn the basics doesn't feel very effective if I don't know any of the building blocks.