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Jinx posted Esperante epiphany | Sep 8, 2009
Just posting to say: I finally figured it out. Why Esperanto doesn't get my engines going, so to speak. It's the lack of an accent! To me, Esperanto sounds completely accentless. Sure, there are rules of pronunciation, as there are in any language, but that's not the same thing as an accent. Part of...
Jinx posted honing my focus | Sep 5, 2009
At school (it's already my junior year – how time flies!), I am already being swamped with academic work. I don't want to let my language studies fall by the wayside, but it's clearly going to take a lot more dedication now than it did during the summer. However, part of my independent linguistic...
Jinx posted end of the summer, and a look back | Aug 27, 2009
On Sunday it's back to college for me, so I thought I'd do a quick review of my language-related activities this summer, including what I wanted to achieve, and what I actually did end up achieving. I think I'll arrange it by language. GERMAN – I hoped to read a lot more German this summer, but I...
Jinx posted more language books, and a schedule re-vamp | Jul 28, 2009
On a huge weekend book-buying trip to Vermont, I purchased the following books: - Languages for War and Peace (by Mario A. Pei) - Conversation Guide to European Languages (by Albert Paul) - Colloquial Dutch (by Bruce Donaldson) - Teach Yourself French (by Sir John Adams and Norman Scarlyn Wilson) -...
