View allAll Photos Tagged TeachYourself
777 jours consécutifs d'apprentissage du français - IMRAN™
Finally, a lot later, but a tiny bit closer to another life goal. 777 days streak of learning French. How and why did that take so long?
Bedsides my late mother’s Urdu language, my late father’s Punjabi, and English learned as a student in Pakistan, I’ve always hungered to learn more languages. As a pre-teen, I was making some progress learning very basic German from Teach Yourself books in the mid 1970s. I won’t mention here BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, C, or C++ type programming languages I had also learned!
But then real tough Cambridge school certificate, then Cambridge A’ levels, and later professional electronics engineering degree studies left no time that was taken up being a student political leader in the 1980s. An engineering classmate from Lahore, Amir, did learn French at the Alliance Français and got me hooked on French movies around 1983.
In 1987 (West Germany) became the first country I visited, and fell in love with, followed by France. So, despite my love for Germany and the German people, French became my language learning goal.
Then 30 years of life, and history, flew by. I bought all the books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, and even apps, as the technology of language learning evolved. I even got the DuoLingo app when it first came out. But time remained the constraint.
Until the pandemic. When everyone was asking others what Netflix series to binge-watch, I took advantage of the time to get and spend time walking with my two German Shepherd Dogs, took off 32 pounds of weight I had put in 32 years living in USA, started work on my second music album, and more.
But what I am so happy I was able to pull off into a consistent habit was doing at least 10-minutes or more of French learning every day. Every day, at least once, before midnight.
By the grace of God I just hit 777 days of consecutive learning days, and my 70th week streak in the highest Diamind League of DuoLingo’s gamification system (which really incentivizes the competitive spirit in me).
Can I have a real conversation with my French neighbor, CFO of a major FinTech, Julien? … Pas vraiment, mais peut-être un peu…. But, my life’s journey to be a Learn It All continues. Je vous parlerai (en anglais, français, Urdu/hindi, Punjabi) bientôt!
© 2022 IMRAN™
#IMRAN #autobiography #languages #learning #French #English #prose #Urdu #Punjabi #Lahore #DuoLingo #TeachYourself #LearnItAll #learnandgrow #learningjourney #learnerforlife #languagelearning
800 Days Daily DuoLingo Fabulous Fun French Language Learning Lessons - IMRAN™
Finally, a lot later, but a tiny bit closer to another life goal. 800 days streak of learning French. How and why did that take so long?
Bedsides my late mother’s Urdu language, my late father’s Punjabi, and English learned as a student in Pakistan, I’ve always hungered to learn more languages. As a pre-teen, I was making some progress learning very basic German from Teach Yourself books in the mid 1970s. I won’t mention here BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, C, or C++ type programming languages I had also learned!
But then real tough Cambridge school certificate, then Cambridge A’ levels, and later professional electronics engineering degree studies left no time that was taken up being a student political leader in the 1980s. An engineering classmate from Lahore, Amir, did learn French at the Alliance Français and got me hooked on French movies around 1983.
In 1987 (West Germany) became the first country I visited, and fell in love with, followed by France. So, despite my love for Germany and the German people, French became my language learning goal.
Then 30 years of life, and history, flew by. I bought all the books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, and even apps, as the technology of language learning evolved. I even got the DuoLingo app when it first came out. But time remained the constraint.
Until the pandemic. When everyone was asking others what Netflix series to binge-watch, I took advantage of the time to get and spend time walking with my two German Shepherd Dogs, took off 32 pounds of weight I had put in 32 years living in USA, started work on my second music album, and more.
But what I am so happy I was able to pull off into a consistent habit was doing at least 10-minutes or more of French learning every day. Every day, at least once, before midnight.
By the grace of God I just hit 800 days of consecutive learning days, and my 75th week streak in the highest Diamond League of DuoLingo’s gamification system (which really incentivizes the competitive spirit in me).
Can I have a real conversation with my French neighbor, CFO of a major FinTech, Julien? … Pas vraiment, mais peut-être un peu…. But, my life’s journey to be a Learn It All continues. Je vous parlerai (en anglais, français, Urdu/hindi, Punjabi) bientôt!
© 2022 IMRAN™
#IMRAN #autobiography #languages #learning #French #English #prose #Urdu #Punjabi #Lahore #DuoLingo #TeachYourself #LearnItAll #learnandgrow #learningjourney #learnerforlife #languagelearning
Look what I bought today... if I don't try I will never know. Eeeek!
And the licking.... FGR made me do it!
For FGR : : And I licked it
I've had this for way too long now, tired of looking at it. It will be a relief to finish it. Spent most of my time flipping through the pages for the most visually appealing words, only slightly enhancing my overall vocabulary.
I smile when someone remarks about how hard Arabic is to learn. Sorting through all the emotional, or mental, baggage of breaking a taboo has been the hard part. There are times when I see something Arabic, and all I can think about is the psychological exile I've been through with friends and family. More and more it brings hope and reconciliation to mind though.
I have not changed in bad ways. I have not crossed over the wall to the dreaded "them." I have found that cultural barriers are sort of a joke or illusion in a certain way. I crossed an imaginary boundary, learned some of the patterns of new ways, and have realized there are people I get along with and people I don't... just like the rest of of the whole wide world. It only matters if a person is intelligent and caring. Therefore I am a dedicated nonpartisan.
I've had this for way too long now, tired of looking at it. It will be a relief to finish it. Spent most of my time flipping through the pages for the most visually appealing words, only slightly enhancing my overall vocabulary.
I smile when someone remarks about how hard Arabic is to learn. Sorting through all the emotional, or mental, baggage of breaking a taboo has been the hard part. There are times when I see something Arabic, and all I can think about is the psychological exile I've been through with friends and family. More and more it brings hope and reconciliation to mind though.
I have not changed in bad ways. I have not crossed over the wall to the dreaded "them." I have found that cultural barriers are sort of a joke or illusion in a certain way. I crossed an imaginary boundary, learned some of the patterns of new ways, and have realized there are people I get along with and people I don't... just like the rest of of the whole wide world. It only matters if a person is intelligent and caring. Therefore I am a dedicated nonpartisan.
I vlog daily over at nobmouse and ZJKR and most of the time my videos are produced using this small, makeshift setup. I use a broadcast quality microphone to record sound but I also record video through my iPhone 4 as it's the highest quality video camera I have available right now. The results are pretty good quality, surprisingly.
The annual Teach Yourself stepladder promotion -- at Barnes & Noble stores everywhere through September 20.
Pearson books on display on the front table in the store at Adobe MAX 2008 — note two Teach Yourselfs on CS4 products, Dreamweaver and Photoshop, on the bottom row on the right. yay!
The annual Teach Yourself stepladder promotion -- at Barnes & Noble stores everywhere through September 20.
An interesting question comes to mind, if you couldn't write, could you read? Even more interestingly, if you couldn't read, could you write?
I think I'll leave questions like these to the likes of Macfanmd, who are cleverer than me! :-)
For once the sepia setting looks OK, but then the book is mainly black and yellow!