French, Borgen, Severance, The Rain, and AI

My 17-year-old has been learning French and practices by trying to repeat lines in things we watch, translated into French.

Right now, we’re watching Lord of the Rings… so he keeps repeating the name Frodo when characters say it… but in a French accent. Continue reading “French, Borgen, Severance, The Rain, and AI”

Danish on Duolingo

I rarely feel like I’m keeping track of the words as I’m going along, but then I do find that sentences make sense to me that wouldn’t have in the past. And what I know for sure is I’ve learned a lot more Danish in the last month than I managed to learn of Spanish 20 years ago…

Back then, I enrolled in a night course and checked out music from the library and watched Spanish language tracks on DVDs that had them… but it was just really hard to get anywhere when I didn’t have an actual pressing reason to learn… Continue reading “Danish on Duolingo”

Finishing My 4th Full Viewing of DS9

We make ourselves out of the things we encounter in this world. We make our bodies out of the food we eat, and we make our minds out of the things we see and hear.

And at this point, I think most of me is made out of DS9. I stored it up and held onto as much of it as I could, and I’ve been using it to patch myself up and build new parts for so long… it’s most of me now. Continue reading “Finishing My 4th Full Viewing of DS9”