Sup Puppies? I was woken early this morning, as the Q of My H had to leave early. In consequence, I’ve been rather more productive than normal this morning. I’ve already completed the next lesson in Assimil German, walked my hound … Continue reading
Sup? This is a picture of my four legged bezzie on our walk this morning. I hadn’t wanted to leave the house as it was wet, drizzling and not particularly warm. As you might guess, I didn’t have much choice. It was … Continue reading
I know it’s slightly early but being organised I’ve already decided on my language goals for 2017. As ever, these are subject to change. Last time I wrote about my language goals, I wrote:- I’m going to learn German and … Continue reading
Sup? Some time back I wrote that I was keen to learn start learning German in the near future for a trip around parts of Europe, along with the queen of my heart. Well, the time to begin has now … Continue reading
Sup all? It’s been a while. Cutting to the chase. Are you a translator? If you are would you like to share any of your experiences here? As you can see the page is empty, but I’m in the process … Continue reading
And in other news I’ve added 500 Bulgarian sentences with audio. Bulgarian uses the cyrillic alphabet but I’ve also included a romanised version, so for example, Как я караш? (How are things) is transliterated as Kak ya karash? So you don’t have … Continue reading
Sup doods? Every month I’m been setting myself some sort of language related goal, and attempting to reach it. I’ve also written these down (to the right somewhere). It turns out that it is very enlightening. Partly because I don’t often … Continue reading
I’ve just been to the Balearics (and I visit frequently-ish) and the languages I heard were Spanish, Romanian, French, Catalan, Dutch, German, Italian and Polish. The languages that I could have used in various situations if I had spoken them were Romanian, … Continue reading
Sup doods? I’ve finally got serious about learning to read/understand Afrikaans, and this is the language learning method which I am trying. There are only three requisites: Firstly: that you know a few hundred words of the language. Secondly: you have a vague … Continue reading
I want to be able to read Afrikaans, which means acquiring words and lots of them. As part of this I’ve been listening to the Afrikaans sentences on Surface languages, and understanding them in groups of ten. I say understanding, … Continue reading