Check-in post

[mothwing]

Good morning, everyone! I hope you are all still doing well.

I'm a teacher in home office, so I've got a large pile of exams here to keep me company and students e-mailing me questions to make me feel like I'm working. Other than that my natural state already is self-isolation so not much changed, which is kind of making me rethink my life style choices.

I've taken up a knitting project and I'm learning how to Morse Code. What pursuits have you taken up to keep you busy?

if you feel lonely, why not go over and check in on the Covid Coffee Corner.

Comments

[mothwing]

DGS is German sign language and I really enjoyed that. The classes were so quiet and it's SO. HANDY. to know. It enables you quickly exchange information above noise or when you're talking on the phone. And of course allows you to be prepared for future hearing loss and talk to deaf or hard of hearing people.

Crocky took three years of Swedish at uni, it always looked like fun. I took a year of Russian at Uni in Glasgow, tried to brush it up with a VHS course, but have forgotten most of it since. Now, I'm duolingoing my way through basic Welsh, and that's the only thing, really. I gave Swedish a go, but did not make it very far.

I'm strongly considering learning Spanish because it looks easy when my students work on it in self-directed learning lessons and Norwegian, because Warrior's father is Norwegian and his girlfriend, a very good friend of Crocky's, emigrated there, too, and we're visiting them regularly, so it might be handy to know.

Whoops, hit reply too soon. How does the Babble course work? In theory, I really enjoy online learning, but find it very hard to motivate myself and find that progress is often slow and erratic with duolingo.