A little place for learning languages
By Peter on Apr 30, 2009 in Site News | 2 Comments
Joining Twitter has become the trendy thing for bloggers to do, and while the non-conformist inside of me tells me to go against the trend, I think there may be some value in Twitter that I haven’t totally realized yet. With that in mind, Thomas and I have both signed up for Twitter experimentally, and [...]
By Peter on Apr 29, 2009 in Lojban | 7 Comments
I had once assumed that if I were to learn a constructed language, it would be Esperanto. It seems to be the most popular conlang out there, with several studies done on its effectiveness on improving language-aquisition skills. But last week my brother reminded me what assuming does and convinced me to start learning Lojban [...]
By thomas on Apr 27, 2009 in TV Method | 8 Comments
It’s been a little over a month since I started learning Thai using the TV Method. I finished my first drama on April 10th. Since then, I’ve started two new dramas and have been watching them plus some cartoons. BORING STATS In the 33 days I’ve been watching Thai television, I’ve racked up about 41 [...]
By Peter on Apr 16, 2009 in Linguistics | 31 Comments
Last night I found Spanish-dubbed versions of a couple of American television shows online, and I was watching them while doing laundry. I was doing this until about 1am, when I crashed and fell asleep. I don’t remember much about what I dreamt, except that everyone in the dream, including me, was speaking Spanish. Sort [...]
By thomas on Apr 2, 2009 in Japanese | 10 Comments
I’ve been reading a book in Japanese on World Religions. It’s basically an overview of the major world religions, and some of the not-so-major ones too. I was looking at one of the history sections in the book and I saw this cool word: 十字軍 (じゅうじぐん – juujigun). The character 十 (juu) normally means ten, [...]
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