Dictionary of Emotions: Words for Feelings, Moods, & Emotions by Patrick Michael Ryan

[gwendally]

Someone recommended this as a vocabulary builder and I thought it'd be more interesting than it was, but there was some value in leafing through it. It's basically a dictionary, but, hey, I'm exactly the sort of person who reads dictionaries. I dog-eared when there were words I didn't really know well. (Many of them I had heard, but was off a bit

Comments

[daphnep]

So many different ways to say “irritable”!

[pondhopper]

Are you using Duo Lingo for Spanish?

[gwendally]

Yes.

I just added you to the "most trusted" list who gets to see our actual names and hear me contemplate moving to a Spanish-speaking country. ;-)

I put my irregular "update" emails there, the things I send to closest friends and families about what's going on with my life.

Duolingo is good for learning grammar and a bit of vocabulary, but I rarely can understand spoken Spanish if it doesn't come with the equivalent of closed-captioning. My thought is that a few years of Duolingo will give me a base so I can pick up the language when I actually immerse myself in it. So if we spend six months in Costa Rica, or emigrate to Spain, I'll be able to quickly pick it up.

[pondhopper]

I just wanted to say...thank you for the trust! I appreciate that.
:)

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

[elenbarathi]