Short and Sweet

For those learning Brazilian Portuguese, this is a great channel to subscribe to.  Enjoy.  :)

Like No Place on Earth

This video was filmed in the wonderful state of Wyoming (or perhaps they used images of WY and made it look like it was.) :)

My family and I lived in Gillette for 10 years from 1994-2004.  Both of my sisters went to the University of Wyoming in Laramie; my younger sister lived in Rock Springs (located just up the highway from Green River) for a while; and my older sister lived in Cheyenne - she now resides in Casper.

Wyoming isn't the smallest state, but it is the least populated.  I miss it a lot, wind and all.

To put more of a language emphasis on this post, look here and here for info on where the name "Wyoming" came from + the American Indian tribes of the state.

Bulgarian Videos for Learning

Even though I haven't been posting to my blog, I have been studying up on my Bulgarian...some.  Definitely not as much as I planned for being halfway through February.

One resource I've been using are these videos.  They're a good introduction to the language.  I figured I'd brush up on the basics.  I just finished watching this one about introductions.  

One More

I forgot another book I'm using for Bulgarian - well, a section of this book anyway.  Other languages featured: Polish; Czech; Slovak (really just a very brief extention of the Czech segment); Hungarian and Romanian.

Ritalinguistics

I seriously need to spend more time on the bajillion languages I'm learning instead of flitting around, reading about languages I'm not.  Is bajillion an actual number?  See how much time I waste?  I'm such a procrastinator, it's not even funny.

Anyway, I've spent the evening reading up on the Turkic languages of the -stans.  You know: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.  I would've included Tajikistan, but Tajik is an Indo-European language, related to Persian.  In Afghanistan, Tajik is known as Dari - or so I've been told.  Oh, and can't forget Azerbaijan, where they speak Azerbaijani (aka Azeri), which from what I understand, is highly similar to Turkish, if not nearly identical.

Romanian Reflections

I found this from 2005.  That was me asking to have a little bit of Romanian I had written corrected.  I haven't gotten my Romanian out in quite a while, but seeing stuff like that is motivating.  Although at the same time, it reminds me that over the course of eight years, I've made little progress in that language.

Lithuanian Listen

I had this in my links but last time I clicked, it led to nowhere, so deleted it.  It's the audio that goes with Beginner's Lithuanian (formerly Introduction to Modern Lithuanian.)  You can tell it's a little dated and the audio isn't always that great, but glad I re-found it.  The same recordings can also be found here once you scroll down.