I love the comment thread. Someone responded in 2018, mentioned that they were learning Dutch. And for years, people have been asking that person to return and say how well their Dutch learning went.
The entire crowd seems to be having fun with it (except one person who doesn't get the joke).
I love the comment thread. Someone responded in 2018, mentioned that they were learning Dutch. And for years, people have been asking that person to return and say how well their Dutch learning went.
The entire crowd seems to be having fun with it (except one person who doesn't get the joke).
Long Bluesky image link of a tornado in Texas that rotated backwards ... in the Northern Hemisphere, they normally rotate counter-clockwise (CCW), but this one rotated clockwise, according to the original post.
Son_2 said it came through shortly after he dropped Grandson_3 off for his last day of Kindergarten. It was supposed to be a mostly outdoor day, but I expect they switched to indoors. Daughter-in-law is going to leave work early to attend his graduation ceremony, then come home and work remotely.
The good thing is that winds, heavy rain, hail, even a couple of possible tornadoes are all long past Springfield, and also past St Robert and Rolla. Not sure about St Louis, because the streamer is now concentrating on the storms in Indiana.
Son_2 and his wife looked at the possibility of the whole family learning Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, French, Greek, Arabic, Russian, and Hebrew. Having lived in SoCal for his growing up years (and having family members who married into a family of Mexican citizens and who married into a Puerto Rican family), he's always been Spanish-adjacent. I think we're going to try to increase the Spanish exposure while choosing another language.
Son_2 enrolled in a French course at the local college when he was in high school. He discovered that French is very difficult. (And he did it on his own, so he didn't take the section taught by the instructor I would have suggested ... who would have told us what we needed to do at home to help him learn it.) Anyway, he says French is too hard.
I suggested that whatever language we choose, we piggyback it on Esperanto, because one of the things that I found most difficult in my German and Spanish language courses was irregular verb conjugation (well, "case" and "gender" were hard concepts too ... the word for chair might not be neuter despite there not being a gender for an object). I think that learning a language without that issue will be easier and that successfully learning one language helps when one tries to learn another.
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