On LiveMocha you can communicate with others to both learn and teach languages. I'm learning French, but I get trading points for correcting people's English assignments. Which gives me a long-sought after audience for my tirades about how "a" tree can be green, but "a" flower can never be purple. (If you want to say a flower is purple, you have to call it "the" flower.)
Today I received this message in response to one of my "teaching" entries:
Muchas gracias Janet por corregir mi trabajo, es de mucha ayuda para mi, saludos desde Valparaiso, Chile.
After several decades in California, I get the "muchas gracias Janet" part. Beyond that...well, let's just say I'm flattered that she gives me credit for knowing what the hell she's talking about.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
anonymously famous
Daan found the cartoon-illustrated version of my teabagging letter to Savage Love. I'm even more anonymously famous than I thought: AV Club.
My favorite comment was "I'm off to capture a Somalian pirate."
As for me, I'm busy procrastinating on the last three assignments I have to do before the semester ends. And sort of wondering if I plan to blow my perfect grades over an all-consuming need to watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents on my laptop in bed every night. (A terrible TV show that I already knew was terrible, yet still I persist.)
To make matters worse, through some roundabout chain of events involving a friend of a friend and my obsession with Breaking Bad, I ended up signing up for a month of unlimited video at the Megavideo site, which lists its TV shows by language. I'm currently hooked on what I believe may be the Parisians' answer to the OC, complete with phrases like, "What are you going to do now?" and "The star search is tomorrow night."
Megavideo doesn't say what the show is called, unless it's the hardly likely Diana's Dream. That seems more like an episode title, and Diana keeps acting like her dream is to create the perfect pomme frite so that she can get a job at the Route 66 diner . I actually have no idea what's going on, but it's a great way to avoid homework.
My favorite comment was "I'm off to capture a Somalian pirate."
As for me, I'm busy procrastinating on the last three assignments I have to do before the semester ends. And sort of wondering if I plan to blow my perfect grades over an all-consuming need to watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents on my laptop in bed every night. (A terrible TV show that I already knew was terrible, yet still I persist.)
To make matters worse, through some roundabout chain of events involving a friend of a friend and my obsession with Breaking Bad, I ended up signing up for a month of unlimited video at the Megavideo site, which lists its TV shows by language. I'm currently hooked on what I believe may be the Parisians' answer to the OC, complete with phrases like, "What are you going to do now?" and "The star search is tomorrow night."
Megavideo doesn't say what the show is called, unless it's the hardly likely Diana's Dream. That seems more like an episode title, and Diana keeps acting like her dream is to create the perfect pomme frite so that she can get a job at the Route 66 diner . I actually have no idea what's going on, but it's a great way to avoid homework.
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