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Iets Nieuws Proberen
Hoi allemaal! Ik wil iets nieuws proberen. Ik ga in het Nederlands bloggen. Ik denk dat dit een goede oefening zal zijn. Vandaag heb ik gestreamd. Ik heb een beetje Hongaars, Vietnamees, Russisch en Cantonees geleerd. Ik gebruik Duolingo, LingoDeer, Mondly Languages en Ling App. Ik heb ook Words on Stream gespeeld. En wat ben…
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Q&A: Get to Know Your Local Twitch Streamer (yes, me!)
Q: When did you start streaming and why? A: My first stream was on December 11, 2019, the same day I signed up on Twitch. It was a short test stream from my PlayStation 4. The PlayStation 4 always had this “Broadcast” feature. At the time I first got the PlayStation 4, I had other…
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Lockdown protesters need to sit down – at home or in jail.
“Freedom!”, you cry. “Vrijheid!” Your right to personal freedom and movement shouldn’t trump everyone’s right to stay healthy and to not have to be in quarantine. I guess it’s escaped some people’s minds that when someone has to go into quarantine, that person has to give up their personal freedom and movement. If you get…
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Is “Chinese” a complicated/difficult language? (And how does it compare to Russian?)
When someone mentions the language “Chinese”, nowadays they are usually referring to the current standard promoted by the Chinese government. That standard is currently Mandarin using simplified characters. However, there are other varieties of spoken Chinese such as Cantonese (considered to be a lingua franca), Taishanese (formerly considered to be a lingua franca; it was…
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Я изучаю русский язык (I’m learning Russian)!
I reached Level 10 Russian! https://www.duolingo.com I still have a long way to go though. Since Russian is significantly harder than Spanish, Italian, French, and Dutch (the language trees I’ve already completed on Duolingo), I’ve been doing quite a bit of the “strengthening” for it (at least three a day). While I was able to…
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Learn Taishanese (aka Hoisanva, Toisanwa) – 學台山話
我講台山話，未講普通話。我曉少少廣州話。I speak Taishanese, but I don’t speak Mandarin yet. I know a little bit of Cantonese. It’s taken some time, but I can finally type a bit of Chinese. 🙂 Some time ago I mentioned that I had found learning materials for Taishanese. I have finally finished volumes one and two of that material. 😀…
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A Small Tribute to “Ai Gu” (Daddy’s Elder Sister)
I was just about to get comfortable to study some languages again. Then, I find out my 90-something-year-old aunt died last night. Now, my brain is busy trying to remember something more concrete about her. Most of my memories of her are from my childhood. Those memories are pretty vague. 😦 This is the aunt…
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Immersion, interactive, or rules-based learning? What’s best?
The following is copy of what I posted in DuoLingo’s discussion section. (See https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5380893) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Every few discussion threads, I keep seeing the topic of how best to learn a foreign language pop up. I think I should post some of my thoughts on this issue. I think it’s been proven so far that the…
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Language Learning – Working on More Languages
My recent study list has been mostly languages – Chinese (Hoisanva aka Taishanese), Korean, Spanish, Dutch, Irish, and Russian. I have yet to add German and Japanese to that. Technically, I’m bilingual as I’m able to speak and understand English and my dialect of Chinese (which is a weird mix of Taishanese and Cantonese due…
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Review: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you’ve never read a zombie apocalypse novel, World War Z is the one to read. The above statement can be considered a little biased since this is the first zombie apocalypse book I’ve read. It’s…
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