I just randomly inflicted a video of April and June the Devon Ladies on topum and then it occurred to me that possibly, the fame of April and June might not have spread to all corners of my LJ friends list, and therefore I should inflict them on the rest of you too.  So here they are.  Topum's idea of turning on the automatic captioning on this video ( Read more... )

How long do you reckon it takes to learn a new language to the point where you can have simple conversations with native speakers of that language ( Read more... )

Logged into LJ this morning and found all the menu options and links are in Cyrillic script - actually, I think they are probably in Russian, although sadly my Russian is non-existent, so I can't be entirely sure of that ( Read more... )