I have bought Teach Yourself Beginner’s Hindi, with audio (audio is important, as I am not living in India).
For the moment I have fulfilled the very first step, which is learning the alphabet. It is has been relatively easy. I still struggle sometimes to tell the difference between the different “d” and “t” sounds, and from time to time I find new consonant pairs I did not know previously. But I think I have already learnt the basics.
Now I have to keep working.
Jul 08, 02:37PM PDT | 0 comments
For work reasons I finally could not start this goal in July, as I wanted. In August I will have other duties, so I am not going to be able to do this goal this year, as from September nights will be longer, and I prefer to cycle during the daytime.
However, sooner or later I will do this, as I think it is a pretty nice idea. I have been flying many times between Spain/Italy and Ireland, but I always did this in just two or three hours, which never gave me the real idea of what was the real distance.
Jul 08, 02:27PM PDT | 0 comments
... or Common Mullein.
Today I have discovered what plants are those I meet every day in the bicycle lane when commuting to my workplace.
They are wonderful: tall, nice, with five petal yellow flowers. They suddenly seemed to come into existence last month (however, apparently they have been there for one year so far), and the landscape has got a nice summery yellow hue.
I blogged (in Spanish) about them.
Jun 23, 04:37PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments