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best thing I've read today
Apr. 1st, 2008 03:23 pmThere were some cute April Fool's things (like Squidpunk!), but the best thing is serious, touching, and completely topical for me.
Not Now, Sweetie, Daddy's Worldbuilding by Tim Pratt
And in a somewhat related bit . . . I'm thinking of trying to pick up at least smatterings of another language via podcasts. Clearly, Rowena's just hearing (currently) English and gibberish phonemes. Will it slow her language acquisition much (or at all) to be exposed to such a podcast? Does that depend on how similar the languages are? I mean, is it going to make a difference whether I choose Russian or German or Italian or Japanese or Thai? (iTunes doesn't appear to have Finnish, which would also be very cool.)
Not Now, Sweetie, Daddy's Worldbuilding by Tim Pratt
And in a somewhat related bit . . . I'm thinking of trying to pick up at least smatterings of another language via podcasts. Clearly, Rowena's just hearing (currently) English and gibberish phonemes. Will it slow her language acquisition much (or at all) to be exposed to such a podcast? Does that depend on how similar the languages are? I mean, is it going to make a difference whether I choose Russian or German or Italian or Japanese or Thai? (iTunes doesn't appear to have Finnish, which would also be very cool.)
