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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Taking the plunge

29-Apr-08

I registered to take the GRE on May 9th. The plan was to take it this summer, but I want to take it on a Friday, and the only Fridays available to take it this month are on the 9th and the 16th. However, I have a cousin getting married on the 17th in Kentucky, [...]

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It has begun…

23-Apr-08

It’s election time, so that means…junk mail. Since I don’t watch TV or listen to the radio, I guess that’s about the only way I will encounter candidate ads. Strangely, the only junk mail I’ve received for elections is from Democratic candidates.
It’s strange for two reasons. First, I’m an independent and not registered with [...]

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Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on

18-Apr-08

Last night/this morning I felt my bed shaking. Since I was groggy, I wasn’t sure if I was still in a dream. I rolled over and saw it was about 5:30 am, and I more-or-less determined the bed really was shaking. I also had some wine last night with some classmates, so I thought that [...]

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Multilingualism

13-Apr-08

I’ve had this blog in my bookmarks for a few months. I’m usually cautious when blogs are associated with products, because I usually get the feeling they keep trying to sell me their stuff. In the cases where blogs are associated with boks and/or magazines, they usually make blog entries about some current event, then [...]

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Automaticity

10-Apr-08

Last semester in Second Language Acquisition class we learned about a concept called automaticity. IIRC it means when a person is learning a new language, there comes a point when certain things are understood automatically, without having to translate back into the person’s first language. I’m getting a bit of this in French class. At [...]

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Articles

06-Apr-08

When learning French, articles are the bane of my existence.
In English, we have the definite article the and indefinite articles a and an, and we often drop them. For example, in the preceding sentence, I could have written, “…the indefinite articles…”, but didn’t, and it isn’t a big deal. In French class, one of [...]

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