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RE: Lockdown reading: Book three
Yes, you have...It's hard to see new places without travelling there first...So, vicarious-vacations might be your best bet.
Are you reading anything lately or just spending time at your computer?
I'm occasionally remembering to read the abridged versions of things (which is not nearly as good as reading the whole thing, I pretend it's better than nothing) on Blinkist when I'm sprawled in bed after doing Duolingo and Memrise, and sometimes continuing Herodotus (in smaller batches than usual), most of the time is on the computer.
I don't know what Duolingo and Memrise is but it sounds cool. Anything is better than sitting in front of the box watching the Simpsons or some other mind-numbing shit.
Memrise is basically a flashcard app that you can chuck anything on that you want to learn/remember using a techy version of ye olde flashcards (remember them?). It does something or other to work out what you're having trouble with so when you're revising/practising it will pop up the difficult ones more often.
Duolingo is similar but different and as the name suggests, for learning languages. I found it a lot easier to learn grammar with this one than Memrise. So basically my intent is to finish the language courses on Duolingo and then hopefully pick up more vocabulary with Memrise XD
I'm learning six languages simultaneously because I'm an idiot ("Chinese" which is actually Mandarin, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese and French on Duolingo and a Sona course that I made on Memrise because the only one that I found on there didn't have all the base words) so keeping busier than I probably should be x_x lol.
I think that's pretty cool, especially the languages. I speak eight languages myself.
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Lol.