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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Do you speak a second language? If so, what inspired you to learn it? If not, what language are you interested in learning?  I have always wanted to learn languages. I have studied some Spanish from an online language app. Learned a few words of Germain out of a text I found in a yard sale. The Spanish I know is pretty much equal to Hebrew. I thought I should know Spanish because it is spoken by many USA citizens. I studied Hebrew because of studies in the old testament. I can speak some old testament Hebrew, but I'm better at translating it since I never had any one to study languages with. I can say the Shema because of studies I did in Old Testament and it is also found in Matthew. And, I have a book about Meditation that uses the Shema. Psalm 1:2 "In God's law doth they meditate day and night." In 1380 Thomas A Kempis stated, "I have no rest, but in a nook, with the book." There are ways to study Spanish that are easier then the app I use. It's fun to recognize a language if you hear it being spoken. I can hiss like a snake and yowell like a cat as well.  I like to imitate sounds. Arabic would be fun to learn or Greek and Latin because they are basic to biological names. The bird biology course I took, from Cornell University, has all kinds of biological Greek names in it. See Ya!  |
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