Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-22

Posted on | February 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

  • Clear my ANKI deck from my cell phone while waiting in the customs. #
  • In Atlanta again this week. Tried this Japanese restaurant. Japanese servers, menus, and even customers. Looked authentic enough. #
  • 想transcribe埋叮噹下半部份, 先發覺個clip畀人刪咗! http://www.cantophilia.com/2008/08/doraemon.html #
  • Pourquoi beaucoup de gens aiment parler de leur apprentissage des langues dans leur langue maternelle? http://tinyurl.com/c7s7z4 #
  • 昨天在停车场帮助了一个讲普通话的婆婆. 在接近零度的气温下她抱著孙子站著等候她的儿子.我用我的手电替她找到了他. 看来自己的普通话好像有点儿退步了. #
  • Fait un poste dans lang-8 parlant d’un restaurant japonais. http://lang-8.com/journal/89322 #
  • New post for Cantonese learners. I know I should update the blog more often. Sorry about that. http://tinyurl.com/aemrkf #
  • With the same 140-character limit, I find that I can express more in Chinese than in English. 同样是一百四十字限,我发现写中字比较写英文能表达更多. #
  • Decided to restart my French Anki deck. 780 cards in total, 600+ due. Got down to 500 tonight. #
  • “Percentage of unknown words” feature disappeared from LingQ. This is the most precious feature of the system to me. I am very disappointed! #
  • Ok, they promised the feature will be added back tomorrow. What a relief! #
  • Went into Luthanasia lounge at the Atlanta airport. Googled from a computer. All settings were set to German! #
  • Watched a few Mandarin stories in flash w/ daughter tonight at 61flash.com. She enjoyed a lot but probably didn’t understand much. #
  • Écouté “le café” par Oldelaf and Mr D. beaucoup de temps aujourd’hui. C’est très dépendance … comme le café! http://tinyurl.com/64b47l #
  • Recently seeing more Latinos in my area. Just found another Latino mom and daughter sitting at the next table in Tim Holtons. #
  • Came back from IKEA. This one in North York always gives me a feeling of being in a united nation, with people speaking different languages. #
  • Hoy he empezado a leer (y escuchar) Los Hechos de los Apóstoles en Español. #
  • Trying iKnow for the 1st time. Pretty neat. Very promising app! Still exploring its features. Anyone knows how to get the Romanji displayed? #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-15

Posted on | February 15, 2009 | No Comments

  • Completo 2 Pedro. #
  • My review on the book “Sorry, I Don’t Speak French” on the language struggle in the recent history of Canada. http://tinyurl.com/awfzbu #
  • Hoy revisado más de 100 palabras españoles en Anki. #
  • Changed my blog theme. How does it look? http://www.towerofconfusion.com/ #
  • Leyendo el cuento corto “Casa tomada”, gracias a Eleena http://tinyurl.com/bxt96d #
  • 點解最近LingQ咁鬼慢… #
  • Hay una estación de radio en Español en Atlanta FM105.7. Escucho cuando estoy en el coche. Creo que se llama Viva. http://tinyurl.com/c5w8ha #
  • I wonder if any multilinguist can actually earn big $$$. Anyone? #
  • Envoyé un écrit dans lang-8 pour la correction. http://tinyurl.com/bulutr #
  • Reçu ma correction de lang-8. Il est vraiment rapide! #
  • Returned to the 20th position on the LingQ ladder for Spanish. I rarely take it seriously anyway. Their ‘activitiy score’ system is biased. #
  • Importé 2 episodios de Lingus.tv a LingQ. #
  • Got off the plane last night and heard about the crash. It was Hudson River in NY. This time it landed on a house in Buffalo! Hate flying! #
  • Spoke to Chinese bakery lady in Canto & Mando, responded in English. Switched to English then. Later heard she spoke to colleague in Canto! #
  • Anki question: Anyone knows how to have contents of imported cards overriding existing ones, while retaining review data? #
  • Esta increíble niño memoriza los títulos de un libro de historias biblicas. http://tinyurl.com/b35bzs #
  • “Hasta de un tonto a veces se aprenden cosas.”, dijo la blogger más vieja del mundo. http://amis95.blogspot.com/2008/11/preguntona.html #
Category: Tweets

Sorry, I Don’t Speak French

Posted on | February 9, 2009 | 10 Comments

I recently read the book “Sorry, I Don’t Speak French“, which gave a very comprehensive account on the language struggle in the recent history of Canada.

To those who are not familiar with the issue, French has been spoken predominately in the Quebec province, and English in the rest of Canada. The Quebeckers resent the lack of recognition of their language in other provinces. The rest of the country wondered why so much time and effort are wasted in forcing them to learn French.

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Category: Books, Canada, French
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Spelling in Spanish

Posted on | February 2, 2009 | 5 Comments

This incident happened about 2 months ago. I and a colleague arrived at the airport in Atlanta. He was a Mexican-immigrant from Toronto, and it was my first time working with him.

We hopped into our rental car. After spending about 5 minutes or so figuring how to start the car using the state-of-art ‘keyless’ key, we entered the destination address into the GPS. I started spelling the street name : “R … A …”. To my surprise, he started typing “A … E …’!

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Category: Spanish

2009 Year Plan

Posted on | January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments

My new year plan is not late. It is right on time. Happy Chinese New Year!

The global financial crisis has lead me to reorganize my priorities. Thousands of jobs are being cut across the globe in recent weeks. In fact, I just managed to survive a bloodshed last week. It seems to me that at this time it is much more important to sharpen my sword than anything else. Thus, my new year direction will be to invest in anything that would increase my own value in the job market.

Putting this direction into the context of language learning, I would need to re-prioritize my target languages. No doubt, English will come first, followed by Mandarin. Then I have decided to put Spanish next, before French. Cantonese, my native tongue, will be the last.

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Category: Goals, Progress
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