Yep, they’re here.
I’ve complained before about the length of time in getting apps and their updates approved, but Apple have really impressed in these last couple of rounds. Both took just under 2 weeks, which is pretty good considering the workload they must be under.
If you haven’t tried Lingopal out before then you can now, [...]
These days you don’t have to travel far to hear foreign tongues. During a recent three week trip in New Zealand I heard so many Germans I could almost imagine being in Poland in 1939. These were eminently friendly however; mostly young students taking advantage of the Southern Hemisphere summer.
Strolling in the Arts Centre in [...]
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 [...]
I loved that movie. But I tend to get the idea that it was something else lost, not the language. I guess that was the point.
I’m sure there are 100’s of good language confusion stories where we wish we had Lingopal. Here is one of mine.
I was staying in a backpackers in Sweden and walked [...]