I was just chatting with a friend who mentioned the Portuguese Lab podcast. I'm not familiar with it, but my friend found it engaging and helpful.

If I come across something, I'll make sure to let you know.

I'm in the same boat - but for me it's 'back to the beginning' for Arabic.

RE: Portuguese ... from Portugual or Brazil? or one of the African countries?

How fun

1. __early morning!__
2. flawless grammar
3. juggle juggle juggle
4. phone
5. wait (but write from day 1)

#LangSky

I opted to finish Cell Phone first. Those phones sure get up to a lot of shenanigans. Now, on to Peach Colony!

I can't decide so I think I'll just alternate. :) Honestly, whoever writes these graded readers for language learners deserves a medal. What they can do with 300ish characters is pretty amazing #languagelearning

Story 1: "Cell Phone" - about the machinations of a cell phone who'd like to spend more time hanging out with his teen friend.

Story 2: "The Peach Colony" - about a utopia lost and found (based on Peach Blossom Spring by Tao Yuanming)

Honestly, our system is not set up to support learners. It's set up to provide accountability to society. :) (these are my thoughts on my more bah humbug days...)

The last few years, I've been having similar thoughts about a related topic: the impossible hurdles some face if they do decide they are in a place where they can attempt a more formal edu route later in life.

My to-do list keeps getting longer...
> improving #python & #sql skills
> Twisted and Django ??? unexpected extras
> lots (_lots_) of writing - help files, content, docstrings, world descriptions... 😅
> and the bi-/tri-/multi- lingual content
🤦‍♀️🤯

remind self: I created a box mwahaha

mwahaha
feel the power
I've created a box
#evennia 🪄

If you happen to have a link to that research (or if you could point me in the general direction of its location), I would love to read it.

If you need a practice partner, I'm happy to help.

Which Eiken level are you practicing for?