giorno 3 : Targets

ITALIAN 5 WEEK BOOT CAMP DAY 3

Here are my targets for next five weeks.

Achieving a level where I can easily read "Cuore"
with parallel translation.
I bought "Cuore" several months ago.
Even with paginal translation, I still do not feel
like to read the book with pleasure.

More specifically, I would like to
(1) complete a text book
(2) complete another text book
(3) read through  2200 basic words
(4) spend 10 h/w for Italian.

Let's see how it is going.

Italian time today 1 hour. .
Italian time yesterday 30 min.
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Italian 5 week boot camp Part 2

I just decided casually to start
Italian 5 week boot camp again.
Last time, I can not say it was very successful.
So this time, I start with more relaxed attitude.

Unit 1, indefinite and definite Articles. Easy.
Italian time today: 1.5 hour

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StrengthFinder

I went to a bookstore to buy a Korean book.
But I felt no chemistry.
So I bought the one I had been curious but had not had.
"Now, discover your strength"
And I have tried the strength test.
Here is the result.

Strategic
Learner
Relator
Input
Intellection

"Learner" and "Input" are understandable.
That is why I am a language collector.
What startled me totally is
"Strategic"
I don't remember having answered such a question.

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Makilena

I was waiting a bus when I smelled something burned,
 which reminded me of my grand mother's house.
It was a small house made of wood.
 A bathroom was separated from the main house.
 There were a lot of knot holes on the wall of the bathroom.
My grandmother used to boil water for the bath by burning firewood.

 Japanese 薪 "Maki"

 Chinese 柴火　　"柴" in Japanese means somewhat thinner firewood

 Korean 장작

 English Firewood　

 Dutch brandhout　　brand = fire, hout = wood

 Africaans vuurmaakhout　vuur = fire, maak = make, hout = wood

 German Brennholz　　This looks like Dutch "brandhout".

 French bois de chauffage bois = wood, chauffage = hot

 Spanish lena

 Now, Maki (Japanse) + Lena (Spanish) = Makilena (Turkish)
although Makilena does not mean fire wood...

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