Entry 8 - Psyche On The Road

What is Psyche On The Road? Here's what it says at their site:

This site was made for a dual purpose.  The first is to warn people about the dangers of distracted driving.  Citizens of the United States need to understand that a text, snack, or any other in-vehicle task besides driving isn't worth the risk.  The second reason for this site is in completion of Activity 14a in the Human Relations Media packet labeled Danger behind the Wheel, assigned by STAR towards the end of September, 2010.  This website was created October 17th, 2010.  This site is a part of a project for Project Ignition.

Basically, Psyche On The Road is a local group for Project Ignition, which promotes safer driving practices not commonly addressed.  This is the project of the Belton High School's STAR students. Jason Weinzierl created the site.

Entry 7 - Editing Latin Wikipedia

I've contributed two articles to Vicipaedia: I created the "esraj" article, and I created the "gay literature" article. It's quite hard to translate English articles to Latin. I would use the Italian as a guide, but some of these articles are only available in English or Russian. Thus, my translations oft-times make no sense.

Using Vicipaedia and Wikipedia has made me wonder: what is the standard way of adopting foreign words? The phonology and gender is hard to logically determine.  Should the new word be masculine, feminine, or neuter? Should the word keep its spelling mostly unchanged, or should the sound be mimicked? If we should write the words as they sound, then how should we annotate the dzh sound in Latin orthography? If anyone knows anything about this, I'd like to hear your words!

Here are the articles I started:

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litteratura_homophylophilia

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esraja

Ugh... I hope somebody corrects these: the grammar and spelling is horrible!

Entry 6 - Я люблю на Климбетика и Киндер-Рок!

Я любдю эти рок-группи. Их лучший! См. этого сайту.

Это видео за Климбатика... Любите!

Entry 5 - Russian Words I Forget

There are a lot of words that I need to practice. This is going to take some work!

1. РУКА
2. ДЕЖАТЬ
3. ПОДУМАЛ
4. ГОСПОДИН
5. ДЕСТИЯ
6. БАРИНА
7. КАВИЧКА
8. ТИРЕ
9. ИЗРАНИЛА
10. ВСЕРОССИЙСКОМ
11. ГОТОВ
12. ТЕЛО
13. РОХОЖ
14. ИЗБИТОГО
15. СЪЕХЗДА
16. ДВОЙНИК
17. ДО
18. ПОЛУСМЕРТИ
19. ЧЕЛОВЕК
20. ВДРУГ
21. ЗАПЛАКАЛА

On a positive note, I got to practice with a native speaker. Sadly, it was not vocal. Not that I could handle it. Man, I have learned something today: I need to start using chat rooms!

Entry 4 - Hebrew: דברו מילים אלה

I just uploaded my first practice video. This one's for Hebrew. I try to identify as many things as I can, and explain them to some degree. But, sadly, I don't know many words, so I ask for your help. Watch the video below. What words am I missing? Do I have an acceptable accent?

Cheers!

Entry 3 - Ngifuna Ukufunda isiZulu Manje

Sawubona. Igama lami nguCaleb na ngiphuma eKansas City. Ngithanda ukuyizwa imuzika iJazz, kodwa Jazz anguphuma eKansas City manje. Ngicela hhayi ngibonela iJazz eKansas City, kodwa mina angibona eBaba lami.

Thina asikhonela iJazz eKansas City. Asiqala ukubonela iJazz: Baba akuthanda iJazz muzika, ukuthi angibona.

Salani amakahle, amantu emhlaba!

Hi. My name is Caleb and I come from Kansas City. I like listening to Jazz music, but Jazz isn't in Kansas City now. I think, sadly, I do not see Jazz in Kansas City, but I do not see it around my father.

We're not in Kansas City for the Jazz. We will not begin seeing Jazz: Dad doesn't like Jazz music, that I don't see it.

Stay well, people of the world!

Entry 2 - I Love Ubuntu!

Wow. I just installed Ubuntu after a year since using Karmic. It's much, much nicer than before. Fonts are cleaner, Chrome is available, the desktop is integrated with social networks, and support for languages have improved. Ubuntu is very nice now. I can't wait to have my computer repaired now....

Wanna see? A picture is below.

Entry 1 - Getting Things Organized

Hi. I will be posting my language-learning progress (among other things) here. Cheers!