it's way too early to be awake

[seperis]

My niece had her birthday party at Gattiland, and after doing my duty shepherding three under-six year olds for a while between games (easy, really; everything is shiny, so it's a matter of keeping them all moving in the same shiny direction), I was free to play. Which is, and I don't know if you know this, a surprising hazard

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[tricksterquinn]

Oooh, thank you for reminding me about Duolingo! I've been remiss in playing with it for too long. I don't remember my username over there, but I'll add you. :D ETA: I'm unquinnish!

I'm sorry about your skeeball injury. It sounds unfortunate. I suppose you could wait until it hurts less and then make a habit of miming the motion in sets of five a few times of day or something where you can steadily increase it until playing your butt off isn't painful? Ouch.

Black Butler

[firefly1311]

Daughter got me in Black Butler a few years ago and right now she loves Misha... I guess she and Child would perfectly match ;-)

[inu_spockya]

Duolingo sound pretty srsly kewl!! A mi, no lo necesito, waaaay too many years as the only English-speaker in the kitchen, and there ya go. but it sounds like somebody with a fucking *brain* built it, which hey, never bad

[lost_erizo]

Thank you for putting me on to Duolingo. I've only been using it for a couple of days, but I can tell it's going to be useful. I've been intending to do something meaningful about my language skills forever, and this seems to be a tool that will actually work for me.

My problem is I use spanish everyday, but I learned it in High School but was never really functional conversationally, and then didn't really use it at all for nearly ten years. Now I live in a spanish speaking country but most of my work colleagues speak english and no one will correct my grammar so it continues to be horrible. So I'm a mixed bag - I have a fairly big vocabulary but my grammar sucks and most spanish "courses" are too simple to start with so I loose interest really fast. This seems to be able to make me concentrate on the things I have problems with (tenses, prepositions, accents) while not constantly re-treading the stuff I already know well.

I haven't explored the social networking part yet, but I'm losterizo there too if you want to link up.