Wednesday, February 15, 2006
I almost made it through a whole Winter without getting sick, almost. I think I'm going to have to overdose on echinacea next Winter, it has to be possible to make it through 3 or 4 months without a doctors trip. That's the thing about being in a large office, too many people in a confined space, it's hard not to catch something sooner or later. So I'm out of action with a chest infection, and a €100 doctor and antibiotics bill just to make me want to cry. I hate being sick, drained and lacking in motivation and energy to do more than lounge in bed, though at least I have plenty of time to read and I've a stack of books from Christmas that I'd been slow in getting around to reading. I polished off Freakonomics yesterday, highly recommended, and am now reading With Their Backs To The World, Portraits of Serbia. Pissed off at missing my Spanish class which I started 3 weeks ago in my efforts to be properly bilingual in the next 2 years, rather than just speaking bits of other languages. I used to be able to speak pretty good Irish. When I was 17 I could hold a good conversation in Irish, it amazing how quickly you can forget huge chunks of a language when you stop using it. The most oridinary of words, sometimes I can think of them in Slovak faster that I can think of it in Irish, funny that. There's no point in going back to learning Irish though, I'd never use it, at least I will use some Slovak when I'm back visiting ... but as for a language to aim to speak fluently, I've set my sights on Spanish, and if Paulie can learn pretty fluent Chinese in a year, it'll be shameful if I can't get a good handle on Spanish in 2 years!
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Karola, Paulie has recommended a book called "3rd Ear" which supposedly works wonders. Good luck with the language (I feel ya) and lets see if my chinese is as good as your spanish in 2 years. :)
Yup I saw that and am planning on getting myself a copy ... nothing beats immersion though, so you have that advantage with your Chinese!
Is 3rd ear a general book on learning languages, or just on learning Chinese?
Another deficient language learner
Another deficient language learner
Its a general book on learning languages, you can download the first chapter for free at http://www.the-third-ear.com/
I generally get called Corrolla like the car :-(
** please note my name is carol-ah not toyota corrolla, crayola the crayon or as a guy from the IT department that came looking for me the other day called, Kia Ora!
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** please note my name is carol-ah not toyota corrolla, crayola the crayon or as a guy from the IT department that came looking for me the other day called, Kia Ora!
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