Lately I have been using that language-learning platform to help my Chinese (from English), but I previously have used it for a couple of other languages.

Let me try to remember them before I refer to its list exactly...
Meanwhile, right now I have Arabian Nights from Aladdin stuck in my head due to wanting to eventually fly off to study snakes. ( Read more... )

I saw that in years past I have participated in this variation of NaNoWriMo, but honestly speaking, I don't think I have enough energy with all that I have been reading.

From my book I had found record of Chien-shiung Wu, under the Physics category. Although it is true my mathematical basis for physics can sometimes flounder, I generally like all ( Read more... )

Also, the birds at the window feeder have been steadily seeming bigger and bigger, generally ( Read more... )

Although I loved the BBC production, everyone else around me who had a say found it too dreadful ( Read more... )

So, I'm reviewing my Israeli/Palestinian/Persian/Arabic/Communist notes for the big shebang of the CPUSA's advertised discussion, which will probably start before I'm done composing this post, so I will just keep it in a different window while paying attention to that. I'm going to close out of FB since the NaNoWriMo group is distracting me with ( Read more... )

So I've been reading Idries Shah's book about Sufis.

( Here. )

I have been reading Lee Harris' The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West, which inspires interesting thoughts. There is much too little space to put everything on my Goodreads account with the 450 character limit per page entry, so my idea was to read the whole first chapter, then reflect on it here, to eventually link back in a 25 ( Read more... )

Hannah my Latin teaching associate spoke of how fast life is going now by commenting "time moves so fast, I hardly have time to catch up to it before it's running off again." - I told her tempus fugit, and a Pittsburghian Democrat of her acquaintance liked that comment.

( Thus it is for me, as well. )

Most likely the reason I feel on edge is that the whole subject of my HIS424 paper, which I've been working on all today, is the fear Communism stirred in Chinese, eastern European, and Soviet society. It might also have to do with the Iranian tinge my studies have most recently absorbed, ah, in my political science explorations... It shouldn't ( Read more... )

This tag, Arabic, I am abusing - for really the main language in Iran is Farsi ( Read more... )