Today’s Journal Exciting news for “Words and Worlds of New York”: today an article about the project appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The response of family, friends, and even strangers has been positive and encouraging,…
The reading glasses that became necessary after I began this project—which involves a lot of squinting at unfamiliar alphabets—recently broke, yet again. The New York City Subway: A Great Place to Cross Paths with German Speakers Well, “broke”…
Last night at 11:00 (being able to shop around midnight is one of the reasons I love New York City), I went to Barnes & Noble and bought some McGraw-Hill German books as well as some SparkNotes flashcards. I love flashcards.…
One of the great gifts of the English language is the word “the.” No matter what, the definite article is “the.” Subject? The. Object? The. Plural? The. Gender? Irrelevant. The the the the the. Head over to German, however, and…
In 1912, the Titanic was heading to New York City from England when it sank and more than 1,500 passengers and crew died. It would be hard to find people in this city who haven’t heard of the Titanic. By contrast,…
I woke up and promptly started in on Pimsleur again. The Level II lessons that I am doing are for the most part too basic for me, but I need the practice in pronunciation as well as noun and adjective…
Since German and I already have a long history, I will spend one month on it rather than the usual two. Today was the first day of my review month, but I didn’t have time to start right away,…
My final days of Hindi were relatively uneventful. I continued with Rosetta Stone and my favorite orange Teach Yourself Hindi book by Mohini Rao—and I returned to Pimsleur. Even though there were only 30 Pimsleur lessons available for Hindi, I…
Today I ran the Fifth Avenue Mile. This is an amazing New York event, starting near the Metropolitan Museum of Art and heading south straight down Fifth Avenue. It draws quite an international crowd, of competitors as well as spectators.…
Today I was skimming through large swathes of Mohini Rao’s Teach Yourself Hindi, which I refer to as “the orange book” for obvious reasons. My Orange Hindi Book One thing I suddenly realized, as I was reading through some…
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