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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5207 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 129 of 138 10 December 2012 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Forewarned. But I - for one - am looking forward to having you on the team, Spanky. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 130 of 138 11 December 2012 at 1:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks songlines, I am a long-time fan of your log and am really looking forward to being on a team with you.
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 131 of 138 31 December 2013 at 8:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, this past year has been a hot mess as far as language learning goes. My
progress, or more accurately, my complete lack of progress and my utter failure as a TAC team mate over the past year, was partially captured to my embarrassment in a number of different logs over the first few months of 2013, prior to the Accident. By accident, I refer of course to my being trapped deep underground in a damp cave for the last many months as a result of a spelunking expedition gone horribly astray. Internet reception down there was really spotty, and also there were bats, a lot of bats, which made studying a challenge. I am hoping to make a clean start of things in 2014, continuing some previous efforts with Spanish, launching yet again into Heisig's Japanese kanji, and as a new venture, attempting to learn a bit of American Sign Language. I will set up shortly a new log to record those efforts - this log seems too weighed down by inertia for me to drag it along on a daily adventure. I will come back here for a visit when I have some progress to report. Edited by Spanky on 31 December 2013 at 8:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 132 of 138 04 January 2014 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, new doomed log for daily 2014 efforts set up …. same as it ever was:
Cada día 2014 "And you may ask yourself Where does that highway go to? And you may ask yourself Am I right?...Am I wrong? And you may say to yourself My God!...What have I done?!" Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime bryne 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 133 of 138 04 January 2014 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Although I have already launched into Spanish, American Sign Language and re-launching
into kanji studying, I experienced a brief episode of separation anxiety from French the other night: I had patiently been waiting for Season 5 of Community, which aired on January 2nd and which was completely awful, but just at the end, this unexpected surprise, the only bright ray in an otherwise dismissal showing: the Excel song Not language-related, but just to remind myself that the show once had been fun, from an earlier season: I agree with brown Jamie Lee Curtis Edited by Spanky on 06 January 2014 at 7:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 134 of 138 11 January 2014 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | ||
The Community community has come to no concensus re: the identity of the singer of this, and there is nothing officially indicated by the show itself AFAIK. I have also read a number of comments on a couple of blogs that are very critical of the French used in the song, including some from professed native French speakers asserting that it took more than 10 seconds to even recognize this as French, which seems beyond ridiculous to me but what do I know. My guess, and a front runner in the speculation, is Coeur de Pirate, a singer from Québec. For comparison: Coeur de Pirate, Francis Coeur de Pirate, Place de la république Edited by Spanky on 11 January 2014 at 8:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 135 of 138 12 January 2014 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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If it is Coeur de Pirate, perhaps the choice of a Canadian artist is by way of making amends for Jeff Winger's vicious attack on another Canadian music group, Barenaked Ladies, from an earlier season.
you selfish jaded ass Edited by Spanky on 12 January 2014 at 7:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 136 of 138 01 February 2014 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Who knew Serbian was so easy?
From the long-awaited episode 1 of season 3: SHERLOCK: I didn’t know you spoke Serbian. MYCROFT: I didn’t, but the language has a Slavic root, frequent Turkish and German loan words. (He shrugs.) Took me a couple of hours. SHERLOCK: Hmm – you’re slipping. MYCROFT (smiling tightly): Middle age, brother mine. Comes to us all. I will accordingly be swapping in Serbian for some other, harder language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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