Sup? How y’all doing? I’m lying on the floor, listening to the torrential rain currently drenching my part of the west country while Max Gazze plays Sotto Casa in the background. My evening has been for want of a better … Continue reading
Sup all, I’m writing this to remind myself as to why stickiness is important. Hence the link from my language and goals. One of my favourite exercises is the kettlebell swing, and one of the books by Pavel Tsatsouline (Kettlebell … Continue reading
Sup all? It’s been a while for one reason or another. Time maybe. Surface Languages is a site a run in my spare time in between my day job, other sites and interests. I also have to admit that my … Continue reading
Sup all? There was a brief interlude of blue sky this morning which coincided in a lifting of my mood – also brief. Confidence or causally related? I tend towards the latter. So, that’s me, but how are you? I’ve … Continue reading
Sup? The icy blast of winter is apparently about to hit the UK. In the West Country (my part of the world), it is five degrees and raining heavily, so it is totally miserable with no redeeming features whatsoever. Grump. … 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
It does. I’m not complaining, as learning languages is a fun hobby but it does. Anyway, I stumbled across the start of a blog where Nic Elliott is going to learn 23 languages in 12 years to a B1 or B2 level which … Continue reading
As I’ve become more interested in Afrikaans (comprehension mainly), I thought that it would also make sense to learn the Afrikaans sentences on SL. In starting to do so, I discovered the sentence page didn’t work as well as I wanted on phones. … Continue reading
I’m not really learning Polish. I don’t need to speak it, am not moving to Poland and so on. I have discovered that I can’t learn a language without a practical use for it, and I don’t have this with Polish. But I do … Continue reading