Yesterday I went to a small supermarket to get a few things for dinner. There was a girl near the entrance serving soup with bread. Ah, the Global Financial Crisis has come to the Western Suburbs, I thought, before realising that this was no soup kitchen but rather a sample offering in hope of a [...]
Doing all the recordings for Lingopal has been a fun, though sometimes trying experience.
Consider. We’ve got:
44 languages
of which a number have male and female versions, and
there are nearly 1000 phrases for each language
That makes for a fair bit of studio time. Fortunately, there are a couple of great recording studios here in Perth, Hamdon Sound [...]
A great explanation why it’s handy to know a few foreign words.
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A little while ago I was in Russia, running extremely late to catch a flight. The taxi driver started at a reasonable speed, but when he noticed my fretting and glances at my watch, his speed decreased.
‘Bistro, pazhalusta,’ I said (fast, please). Incidentally, ‘bistro’ apparently entered the English vernacular when the Russian soldiers, on chasing [...]