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| The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5592 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto | Message 17 of 27 09 March 2010 at 5:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I already knew I got motion sickness from reading on busses but I wondered if word lists would be ok due to less continuous reading. Nope. I felt like throwing up. And I wasn't even drunk yet.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5839 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 27 10 March 2010 at 9:31pm | IP Logged | ||
I also get motion sickness when reading in busses or in the back of a car. But I can read well in trams and trains, fortunately. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5373 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 19 of 27 10 March 2010 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | ||
I had the same problem (compounded by poor hearing), and I solved it by getting noise-reduction headphones. Best purchase in a while. As the weather is getting nicer around here, I'll soon be riding my bike to work most days. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to use that time to study Japanese yet... Edited by Arekkusu on 10 March 2010 at 9:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| indiana83 Groupie United States ipracticecanto.wordp Joined 5482 days ago 92 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese, Italian | Message 20 of 27 13 March 2010 at 1:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Back when I took the train, I used to be so much more diligent with my SRS deck (on my work laptop) when I had dead time sitting at the train station. But now that I've been driving to work, I really have to struggle to find time at home when I can sit down and go through my flashcards.
In a few weeks my wife's commute will be more difficult than mine, so I'm going back to taking the train and letting her use the car. I'm not completely looking forward to the longer time spent commuting, but I'm actually looking forward to the extra study time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5839 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 27 13 March 2010 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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By the way, I would like to know what a "ninja" is. Please explain this important word!
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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6775 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 22 of 27 13 March 2010 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||
"Like a ninja" is a way of saying that you do something with the utmost efficiency, it's an internet meme that alludes to ninjas being the ultimate fighters. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Li Fei Pro Member United States Joined 5115 days ago 147 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 23 of 27 21 March 2011 at 12:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Y'all are making me regret that I no longer have a big commute! My situation is a little bit different but I'm trying
to be a ninja . . . I have a 10-minutes drive to work, then a five-minute walk from parking lot to office, with the reverse after work. I listen to Pimsleur during the drive (so that I can answer back), and then listen to something that doesn't require answering during my walk across campus, since there are lots of people and I don't want to increase my reputation for eccentricity! I also do a lot of short drives around town, to the grocery store, kids' activities, and the like--Mom stuff. Whenever I don't have kids in the car, I listen to more Pimsleur. But you can see that it's all very chopped up. I rarely get the chance to listen to an entire 30-minute Pimsleur lesson at once. No wonder I have to listen to them at least twice in order for them to sink in. On the other hand, perhaps I'm replicating the scattered, confusing feeling of being in another country, calling words and phrases to mind in the midst of real life. That's how I like to frame it, anyway! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5137 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf) | Message 24 of 27 26 March 2011 at 7:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I love to have my ipod filled to the brim with arabic language courses, arabic songs and also bring my course textbook. It is the only way to deal with public transport!
Funny thing is, I got in to the lift the other day and took out my ipod, a guy in the lift tutted at me and I said, 'did something happen?' and he started a rant on how people tune in to their music instead of paying attention to life. I responded that I was actually studying a language and that my little ipod was filling me up with knowledge. That shut him up in a polite way :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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