Languages on Miro's World

BOTD - Blog of the Day

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:22:48 +0800

Today’s blog of the day is a special one. It does not deal with cloud, DevOps or distributed systems. The theme of the blog is travel, life of digital nomad and observations on life from a perspective of a smart young woman, working as Online English teacher and travelling a lot while doing so - https://bookandtravel.blog/

What makes this blog dear and interesting to me is that it’s author is my daughter Silvia. What could make the blog interesting and valuable for other audience (especially those learning English who are interested in personal development) is the format of the entries - as they combine reading and language teaching. Each post contains 10-20 emphasized words or expressions that are explained in footnotes - check this one

Spanish and Catalan

Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:22:48 +0800

The current weather in Valencia summed up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2VHUP7R2CY

Note for my friends who think Catalan is more or less same as Spanish: go for it and translate :-)

Mission (almost) accomplished

Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:22:48 +0800

It’s been five years since I started toying with idea to learn first romance language in my collection - despite living in Canada for over 18 years, I never picked up French.

The learning was slow during 2014 and 2015 (just summer school in Spain and Duolingo) - but it accelerated a lot in last 2 years.

Fast forward to now: on Sunday while watching Prime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(film)) we have decided to switch from English to Spanish (with Spanish subtitles) to enjoy the movie better than in original.

This made my day

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 11:22:48 +0800

Per core licensing

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:22:48 +0800

If one uses Oracle per core licensing strategy in cloud:

Europanto

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:22:48 +0800

This is how my mind often works, triggered by using 4 languages every day and 5-6 every week

Double negative

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:58:15 -0400

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In
English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some
languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a
negative. However, there is no language wherein a double
positive can form a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

Found on the Net :-)