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smallhobbitThis was suggested by Okapi as of benefit to some of the things I do in church. Initially I thought about BSL, but then realised if I was intending to do this properly it would require more than a month, so I decided to learn some Polish instead. There is a significant Polish contingent in our area, so it seemed logical.
I signed up for Duolingo and began the first lessons. But after nearly a fortnight I realised I wasn't going anywhere, although I had a large list of vocabulary. I have nothing to hang the language on, in that there's no similarity to any of the other languages I have a smattering of. And nothing was going in. I decided to admit this wasn't working and stop, rather than battling on for another week. On the plus side, I now have a certain feel for the language when it's spoken.
To the replace this, I've been watching a youtube video with basic BSL greetings, which means I might at least be able to sign 'welcome' which would be welcoming.
I haven't even done much of my sewing. We were away or out most of the weekend, and this week I've been sorting odds and ends for our holiday and have generally been feeling uninspired. All I've done is sew one button, which I think helps to pull the appliqué together better for this square:
Sew challenge-wise this month hasn't been a roaring success. Have a picture of the tea we had on Saturday instead.
I signed up for Duolingo and began the first lessons. But after nearly a fortnight I realised I wasn't going anywhere, although I had a large list of vocabulary. I have nothing to hang the language on, in that there's no similarity to any of the other languages I have a smattering of. And nothing was going in. I decided to admit this wasn't working and stop, rather than battling on for another week. On the plus side, I now have a certain feel for the language when it's spoken.
To the replace this, I've been watching a youtube video with basic BSL greetings, which means I might at least be able to sign 'welcome' which would be welcoming.
I haven't even done much of my sewing. We were away or out most of the weekend, and this week I've been sorting odds and ends for our holiday and have generally been feeling uninspired. All I've done is sew one button, which I think helps to pull the appliqué together better for this square:
Sew challenge-wise this month hasn't been a roaring success. Have a picture of the tea we had on Saturday instead.
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Date: 2017-10-18 09:32 pm (UTC)Polish is just enough like Russian to make it really frustrating. I know a fair bit of Russian and Polish always sounds familiar, but I can't quite understand it.
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Date: 2017-10-18 09:36 pm (UTC)I wondered whether Polish and Russian would be similar - I have no knowledge of Russian either, but there was no resemblance to German which I had hoped for.
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Date: 2017-10-19 02:47 am (UTC)I know a fair number of ASL words but not enough to have more than a very basic conversation, and I don't really understand proper ASL grammar at all. I've often wanted to be a translator, though - I think that would be really interesting.
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Date: 2017-10-19 08:17 am (UTC)I'm impressed at your knowledge of ASL. I'd like to have enough I can look friendly, even though I couldn't talk to people.
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Date: 2017-10-19 05:42 am (UTC)I did a course on AUSLAN quite some time ago and it was really interesting. Unfortunately I can't remember much of it now. Polish would be extremely hard to learn I imagine.
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Date: 2017-10-19 08:19 am (UTC)AUSLAN would be interesting I imagine. I really wasn't taking anything in, and although I could answer the questions, that was only by referring to all my cards with the answers. I could tell I wasn't going anywhere with it - and there was no point in getting stressed about something I was doing purely for pleasure.