I took Pimsleur to Central Park with me tonight and enjoyed an educational walk. It also happened to be the first evening of the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge, a 3.5-mile race, so I took pictures. I think there were something…
Yesterday I couldn’t take it anymore: I ran. I wasn’t initially sure it would be a good idea, but my doctor said okay, try it, though without great enthusiasm. He taped up my feet, which helped a lot. …
Today I woke up early and went to Central Park to take pictures of a Father’s Day race, which I would probably have been running if not for my injury. It was a pea soup kind of day, hot…
I woke up way too early and promptly began studying. It made me happy. I did a lot of Pimsleur today. I took Pimsleur with me as I ran errands all over town, including a number…
I have been doing a lot of Rosetta Stone. I am definitely learning from it, but I concede I am having a hard time at any given moment understanding where I am in the sequence of lessons. I plan to…
Today I chose to do Rosetta Stone instead of Pimsleur because, frankly, I felt too delicate for Pimsleur. Pimsleur requires a lot of mental energy and focus, particularly for non-Romance languages. With Rosetta Stone, on the other hand, you can…
Today I finished the first level of Greek Pimsleur and promptly got started on the second. Different verb forms and tenses are floating around in my head. Pimsleur has already introduced me to some past, present, and future, and I…
This morning I did not feel great when I woke up, I think because I got overheated yesterday. Sunday was extremely hot, and Brandt and I were outside in the sun at the annual gay pride parade. Parade and Parade…
In each language I’ve studied as part of this project, there have been certain words or expressions that just don’t sound to me as though they mean what they mean. As a result, I find them difficult to…
Today marks the one-year anniversary of this project. In honor of it, I managed another appallingly bad Rosetta Stone score. How Many Languages Were Spoken in Times Square Today? Oops. It was again on a writing unit. I was told…
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