This is just a quick update about the fact that recently I just completed my very first course over at Memrise;P It's in Finnish and goes by the name of Survival Finnish, a relatively short course to get one's feet wet in the language. I had used the facility on a trial basis about 6-7 months ago and I amassed some 450,000 points ( Memmoth Level) before it started becoming a bit boring plus I had to give the entire thing up 'cos I wasn't using a Smartphone rather just my Nexus and it gets hectic when there is not internet connection to use, I chose to buy only a WiFi enables Nexus rather than a more mainstream tablet so as to reduce the distractions which might tempt me. Good decision !! And I was using a much older phone at the time, whose battery life was just soo awesome. So, it felt as if I am gonna drain the tablet too soon. That would have been a nightmare 'cos I rely so heavily on tablets for learning new things, there is an unbelievable amount of free and liberal, not to mention multilingual content on the internet.
But when I had a smartphone ( Xiaomi Note) I thought about using the Memrise and Anki combination again. Though don't go by the number of points over there, I never completed a single course last time.
I am happy to note that I am making good progress in a couple of languages using these tools and with all the podcasts in the background, I am always involved with one language or the other.
But Finnish, really?
Yes, Finnish !! I am not really sure whether it would come as a surprise to you, maybe it does but I think it would be crazy not to learn an agglutinative language, like - Turkish, Hungarian, Finnish or Swahili etc 'cos the entire system is quite different my "native" Indo-European background. Of course, it takes a while to focus more upon the endings rather than prepositions to make sense of many things but it's not something that can't be done.
Besides, I am madly, deeply and hopelessly in love with the North, so Finnish only takes it to a whole different level !!
Btw I have added another language to my list of Germanic languages - Dutch or to be more specific Nederlands. I figured, well it has harsh sounds, closer to German, awesome music and an interesting history - why not? So, I think I pretty much have covered all the major Germanic languages over the years. Of course, still fluent in none but it does feel quite awesome to be able to makes sense of what I hear and read all over the internet. It's an awesome feeling, I wonder if this is what junkies feel like. Well, if yes, then it's my favourite guilty pleasure;P
I really need to change the look of this blog.
Whenever I look at this blog, I feel the very real need to ramp it up, 'cos these basic theme are just not very appealing, right? I would hate to get any "professionals" involved, I love to tinker with things myself, the immense pleasure of finding things out, the sheer joy of discovering on your own what works and what doesn't; I just love that feeling. So, I am experimenting with the HTML5/CSS/JS on my own and I have started to make reasonable sense of it all though I am sure, that to improve the Look and the Feel of the blog I still have a long way to go. But I want to do it on my own, you know, 'cos it's a win-win situation and I am under no pressure or obligation to do it as per a particular way, I am free to experiment and learn loads of things while doing it. Works all right for me=)
A confession !!
I haven't had the time seriously invest in my other blog nutro-marka but I promise that as soon as I get some free time I will start building that one up as well. At the moment, that's my best chance of actually activating these languages in a way that I so thoroughly enjoy - Creative Writing !!
Regarding a banner for this blog, I do have one in mind. But I want to sketch it myself and in the process learn sketching as well. The image in my mind is so deeply inspired by the title of the blog, I think it's going to fit in quite well. Will take a lot of time though, I have nothing but time.
But when I had a smartphone ( Xiaomi Note) I thought about using the Memrise and Anki combination again. Though don't go by the number of points over there, I never completed a single course last time.
I am happy to note that I am making good progress in a couple of languages using these tools and with all the podcasts in the background, I am always involved with one language or the other.
But Finnish, really?
Yes, Finnish !! I am not really sure whether it would come as a surprise to you, maybe it does but I think it would be crazy not to learn an agglutinative language, like - Turkish, Hungarian, Finnish or Swahili etc 'cos the entire system is quite different my "native" Indo-European background. Of course, it takes a while to focus more upon the endings rather than prepositions to make sense of many things but it's not something that can't be done.
Besides, I am madly, deeply and hopelessly in love with the North, so Finnish only takes it to a whole different level !!
Btw I have added another language to my list of Germanic languages - Dutch or to be more specific Nederlands. I figured, well it has harsh sounds, closer to German, awesome music and an interesting history - why not? So, I think I pretty much have covered all the major Germanic languages over the years. Of course, still fluent in none but it does feel quite awesome to be able to makes sense of what I hear and read all over the internet. It's an awesome feeling, I wonder if this is what junkies feel like. Well, if yes, then it's my favourite guilty pleasure;P
I really need to change the look of this blog.
Whenever I look at this blog, I feel the very real need to ramp it up, 'cos these basic theme are just not very appealing, right? I would hate to get any "professionals" involved, I love to tinker with things myself, the immense pleasure of finding things out, the sheer joy of discovering on your own what works and what doesn't; I just love that feeling. So, I am experimenting with the HTML5/CSS/JS on my own and I have started to make reasonable sense of it all though I am sure, that to improve the Look and the Feel of the blog I still have a long way to go. But I want to do it on my own, you know, 'cos it's a win-win situation and I am under no pressure or obligation to do it as per a particular way, I am free to experiment and learn loads of things while doing it. Works all right for me=)
A confession !!
I haven't had the time seriously invest in my other blog nutro-marka but I promise that as soon as I get some free time I will start building that one up as well. At the moment, that's my best chance of actually activating these languages in a way that I so thoroughly enjoy - Creative Writing !!
Regarding a banner for this blog, I do have one in mind. But I want to sketch it myself and in the process learn sketching as well. The image in my mind is so deeply inspired by the title of the blog, I think it's going to fit in quite well. Will take a lot of time though, I have nothing but time.
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