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Nov. 1st, 2020 08:10 amDaily life: It's been a long week, work, headaches and 2020 stuff. I wish the goddamn election was just over. (We also have a local one here, on political boundaries, and it's become a war of awful little jingles from sound trucks. I wish that one was over too.) Possibly in related news, my weird work typo for the week was "President Eisenhowever."
Music: A couple of comforting songs that also make me cry--Now and Then and Se todos fossem iguais a voce (both YouTube links).
Books: In the middle of a Japanese novel about a love affair between a Taiwanese instructor of Japanese and her Uighur student, also a woman, both in Japan. (Do I call this a Japanese novel? It's written in Japanese, by a Taiwanese-born woman using the Japanese reading of her name, and published in Japan. Very hard to know.) I wish depressingness didn't seem to be a necessary component of literary fiction, but the depiction of language learning and how it interacts with life is absorbingly good.
Chinese: A bit over 250 days on Duolingo, which is fine, but still struggling with what to do next. I wish the Chinese Grammar Wiki had a set of practice problems along with their sample sentences, which are great. (I counted, and the A2 grammar set alone has ELEVEN different uses of 了... 救命.)
Writing: Thank you very much for kind comments on my first-draft post. Rereading and thinking about more edits, worrying about finding somebody to read for my Muslim character, and allowing bits of what happens next to come together in my head.
Photos: ( Even more morning glories among others, and assorted pretty eyes )
Be safe and well.
Music: A couple of comforting songs that also make me cry--Now and Then and Se todos fossem iguais a voce (both YouTube links).
Books: In the middle of a Japanese novel about a love affair between a Taiwanese instructor of Japanese and her Uighur student, also a woman, both in Japan. (Do I call this a Japanese novel? It's written in Japanese, by a Taiwanese-born woman using the Japanese reading of her name, and published in Japan. Very hard to know.) I wish depressingness didn't seem to be a necessary component of literary fiction, but the depiction of language learning and how it interacts with life is absorbingly good.
Chinese: A bit over 250 days on Duolingo, which is fine, but still struggling with what to do next. I wish the Chinese Grammar Wiki had a set of practice problems along with their sample sentences, which are great. (I counted, and the A2 grammar set alone has ELEVEN different uses of 了... 救命.)
Writing: Thank you very much for kind comments on my first-draft post. Rereading and thinking about more edits, worrying about finding somebody to read for my Muslim character, and allowing bits of what happens next to come together in my head.
Photos: ( Even more morning glories among others, and assorted pretty eyes )
Be safe and well.
