I may officially be a 'news' junky now. This week I've added Le Monde to my daily 'news' consumption. (See * below.) It's not because I love the news for its own merits. (Who could, really
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I believe that if I tried to live without Radio 4 I would eventually succumb to some kind of wasting illness. Irrational maybe, but why tempt fate, that's what I say.
I would like to learn some Italian this year, and so far I'm not doing particularly well. I really really want to, though! I have some 'teach yourself' CDs and books and a dictionary/grammar/vocab book, and the BBC language steps series on their website. I just need to get to the stage where French words stop popping into my head. Because I did French at school, so it's The Foreign Language as far as my brain's concerned.
I'm trying out Livemocha, which is an online interactive language site that a friend recommended on the DW version of this post, and it seems sort of useful. Enough that I have put up the dosh for a one-month trial membership.
Now I must use it every day.
I hope.
(I've just looked up what a whiskey mac is... what is ginger wine? No, really. I've no idea. Commence cultural deficit panicking! I feel as though I must be missing something v. important, so you must tell me. Also how does a whiskey mac taste?)
I'm not allowed to spend any more money before I've had a really good go with the stuff I've already bought - this is the law. But yes, I think doing *some* language stuff every day would be the best thing. NEED MOAR WILLPOWER.
Ginger wine - I don't really know - it's winey and gingery? I've never had it before. I bought it purely because, (slightly embarrassingly) Stephen Fry mentioned on Twitter that he was having one, and I thought it sounded like a nice thing to have in the winter. And then I found ginger wine in the co-op, so I bought some. A whiskey mac tastes powerful, fiery, warming and has a sting in the tale. And in the rest of it. A small amount makes one extremely jolly, I find.
Possibly we could each bolster the other's willpower through Encouragement!
Although, a whiskey mac sounds strongly encouraging on its own. I particularly like the notion that it has a 'sting in the tale'. The best tales do! (Also dragons, I've heard. And Shakespearean shrews.)
I would like to learn some Italian this year, and so far I'm not doing particularly well. I really really want to, though! I have some 'teach yourself' CDs and books and a dictionary/grammar/vocab book, and the BBC language steps series on their website. I just need to get to the stage where French words stop popping into my head. Because I did French at school, so it's The Foreign Language as far as my brain's concerned.
(This comment brought to you by a whiskey mac).
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I'm trying out Livemocha, which is an online interactive language site that a friend recommended on the DW version of this post, and it seems sort of useful. Enough that I have put up the dosh for a one-month trial membership.
Now I must use it every day.
I hope.
(I've just looked up what a whiskey mac is... what is ginger wine? No, really. I've no idea. Commence cultural deficit panicking! I feel as though I must be missing something v. important, so you must tell me. Also how does a whiskey mac taste?)
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Ginger wine - I don't really know - it's winey and gingery? I've never had it before. I bought it purely because, (slightly embarrassingly) Stephen Fry mentioned on Twitter that he was having one, and I thought it sounded like a nice thing to have in the winter. And then I found ginger wine in the co-op, so I bought some. A whiskey mac tastes powerful, fiery, warming and has a sting in the tale. And in the rest of it. A small amount makes one extremely jolly, I find.
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Although, a whiskey mac sounds strongly encouraging on its own. I particularly like the notion that it has a 'sting in the tale'. The best tales do! (Also dragons, I've heard. And Shakespearean shrews.)
Never feel embarrassed of Stephen Fry.
A motto to live by, that.
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Ahaha, you see! This is the work of the whiskey mac! :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_wine
I think this is the stuff you're supposed to use - the one I picked up was some local brew, so it might be completely inauthentic, I don't know!
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