I fixed my sleep pretty much. I've been waking up at 7 for 2 weeks and driving kids around. Only I'm still not getting enough sleep, so I need a nap after I drive them. This is me heading for a nap.
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Monday, June 4, 2018
Greek Stuff
My font isn't being friendly today. I'm learning Greek and using the Greek keyboard. It took 7 tries to get my keyboard to switch over back to English. I'd type in Greek if I knew how!
So far I've been using Duolingo. It's a site/app that starts you off with the alphabet, and builds on your vocabulary. It's been fun, and, the "streak" feature makes me want to be sure to do it every day. I'm on a 27 day streak so far! I've also been enhancing that with a Biblical Greek app. I make flash cards. I write words over and over until I think I've got them. It's not easy, but I know that this is the easy part. Once I get into conjugation, I'm in trouble.
It's been fun. GG has been helping me here and there, and it's nice to be able to ask questions of someone who knows the language. We use the pally background to write things out since it doesn't allow for the keyboard.
I've taking my time with it. I don't move ahead until I'm sure I understand what I've done so far. I also do drills to reinforce it, and speak the words out loud hoping it catches in my brain. Exciting stuff.
I love words. For the past week, I was having a hard time with the word for Woman, which is γυναίκα, until I looked it up tonight and realized that the first part is GYNA, as in.... woman/female. Learning things like this makes a huge difference in helping me to remember the vocabulary.
A friend told me, "understand, speak, read+write, in that order". I don't think it works that way though. Everything I've looked at seems to combine all of those. So, first goal... Get full gold in Duolingo. Then I'll see where I go from there. Fun!
Heading to bed with my crossword. Good night Universe.
So far I've been using Duolingo. It's a site/app that starts you off with the alphabet, and builds on your vocabulary. It's been fun, and, the "streak" feature makes me want to be sure to do it every day. I'm on a 27 day streak so far! I've also been enhancing that with a Biblical Greek app. I make flash cards. I write words over and over until I think I've got them. It's not easy, but I know that this is the easy part. Once I get into conjugation, I'm in trouble.
It's been fun. GG has been helping me here and there, and it's nice to be able to ask questions of someone who knows the language. We use the pally background to write things out since it doesn't allow for the keyboard.
I've taking my time with it. I don't move ahead until I'm sure I understand what I've done so far. I also do drills to reinforce it, and speak the words out loud hoping it catches in my brain. Exciting stuff.
I love words. For the past week, I was having a hard time with the word for Woman, which is γυναίκα, until I looked it up tonight and realized that the first part is GYNA, as in.... woman/female. Learning things like this makes a huge difference in helping me to remember the vocabulary.
A friend told me, "understand, speak, read+write, in that order". I don't think it works that way though. Everything I've looked at seems to combine all of those. So, first goal... Get full gold in Duolingo. Then I'll see where I go from there. Fun!
Heading to bed with my crossword. Good night Universe.
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