#portuguese: my lesson today made me actually laugh out loud

[katzensilber]

10 March 2022

The only picture I have today is this adorable sentence from Ukrainian Duolingo. It’s late and I’m tired. But I’ve had such a multilingual day... I'm happy 🥰

🇩🇪 Listened to my morning news podcast in German

🇩🇰 Corrected a Danish-to-English translation at work in which the translator had made a lot of mistakes, but I wasn’t too annoyed, because it meant I got to read a bunch of Danish

🇮🇹 Read two more sections of L’amica geniale (I’ve reached the one-third mark!) and played guitar and sang a couple of the Italian songs I know

🇫🇷 Read three more sections of Et si c’était vrai

🇺🇦 Reviewed basic Ukrainian sentences

🇵🇹 Did Assimil Portuguese lesson 15 and reviewed the past two weeks of audio (i.e. all lessons so far)

I also went for a run to the local "outdoor gym" during my lunch break, briefly worked out on the equipment there, and ran home again. My brain and body are both exhausted now... it's time for bed. Good night friends 💕

#langblr #studyblr #polyglot #multilingual #language learning #adult studyblr #booklr #adultbooklr #various thoughts: #yeah i still generally hate what duolingo has turned into #but i'm such a beginner in ukrainian that i'm able to put up with it for the time being #l'amica geniale: continuing to be markedly better in italian than it was in english #et si c'etait vrai: whew what a lot of medical vocab at the beginning! #but now i know how doctors say 'clear!' in french ('on s'ecarte!') #danish: i was really surprised at how bad this actual paid translator was #he clearly didn't know the language very well #e.g. translating 'høykonsentrert fluortandpasta' as 'high-consistency fluoride paste' #when it was clearly supposed to be 'high-fluoride toothpaste' #and that was just in the very first segment i looked at /facepalm #portuguese: my lesson today made me actually laugh out loud #woman: 'what are you doing?' man: 'writing a letter to maria' #woman: 'but why are you pulling such awful faces?' man: 'i'm trying to concentrate on producing good handwriting so she can understand me' #woman: 'yeah... your handwriting is really bad. why not type instead?' man: 'no it's okay. this way she'll know right away that it's me.' #i freaking love assimil i swear... best language courses out there #mine