Language learning week 7 day 3

Hello, Duo! To get me started today, I’ll let the green owl help me. Diving into Arabic lessons He is generous and he is your husband, Judy. هُوَّ كَريم وَهُوَّ زَوْجِك يا جودي. Also, it’s interesting to realize that before ever learning some Arabic, I wouldn’t even have known where these Arabic words ended, only knowing spaces between words in […]

Language Immersion Week 2

During my personal language immersion last week I learned some Swedish, Spanish and Chinese. Learning Swedish by watching (SVT) news and TV series and (YouTube) videos To practice some Swedish listening, I watched this video about Swedish exceptionalism and news episodes from Nyheter pa latt svenska, Nyheter Direkt and I downloaded the SVT Språkplay app […]

Language Immersion Day 1 – one hour of language study and living like a local

Croatian The first language on my list of high-quality translations, a tricky one for me in itself to kick-off with. I could assess from most words what they meant, since I know the source text pretty well, it being my own introduction. ☺ Scandinavian languages Then, I just listened to the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish […]

Literally is used way too often by everybody. Literally!

Je kan hier over de hoofden lopen, letterlijk! Dan moet iedereen over de kam geschóren worden. Dan schiet Putin zich in zijn eigen voet. Letterlijk. Literally, this turned our world upside down. here’s more from Steven Pinker about A.W.F.U.L. people (Americans Who Figuratively Use Literally)