Sup my friends? Yet again, I’ve made an organisation related resolution. On the RHS of this post, under the rather pompously named ‘My language journey’, I’m going to add details of :- My Language Journey. Yeah! Name and shame. Public … Continue reading
Sup? This year I’d like to think that I will be more productive than the last, or in fact any previous years of my life. The fact that I’m writing this at 10.32, so far having achieved nothing today, suggests that … Continue reading
Sup d00d’s? I’ve just added five hundred Afrikaans sentences to Surface languages, and random Afrikaans crosswords. The words for the crosswords use the vocabulary from the sentences as the clues, as a way of re-inforcing the words learnt. I am, … Continue reading
Sup d00d’s, I just subscribed to Hebdomada Aenigmatum, a monthly magazine with Latin crosswords and other stuff. So why is it called hebdomada? Maybe I need to get out more … but we all need things to fret about. Pax, MF.
Sup d0ods? It’s been a while, and I hope you are all good. I’ve just added a large number of professionally translated Spanish sentences to Surface languages. There is no audio as yet, but it will come along shortly – over the … Continue reading
It is a typical July day in the West Country – everyone is wearing coats, there are damp paw prints everywhere and it is raining. And I have completed my first week of learning Romanian, or more accurately four days. The … Continue reading
Are you sitting comfortably? I’m not, but that’s a story for another day. Then I will begin. But before I do let me tell you that I’ve just completed a new App which will be here as soon as it has … Continue reading
Time for a bit of a summary of 2014 as I see it. 2014 in general for the UK Well, 2014 has been a pig of a year without much to recommend it, and much of this caused by the … Continue reading
It’s been some considerable time since I treated the internet to an update on my progress with these two languages. I think in some ways, this blog is an antidote to the current meme sweeping the internet about how skills in … Continue reading
Well, call me a geek but Vultus est index animi has long been one of my favourite expressions. And now I know it in Spanish as well: Los ojos son el espejo del alma. Now all I need to do … Continue reading