via Fluent: The 6 Best Techniques for Learning Vocabulary
If you want to learn a foreign language than this link could be for you. As you may know I am a native German speaker living in Italy. Learning vocabulary is right on top of my daily to-do list. I find the writing-down-part very useful. But my top advice is reading, reading, reading as much and as often as you possibly can.
via Translating Cuba – Yoani Sanchez: My Father and Berlin
Simply a wonderful post!
A short video that says it all, all!
via Cristian Mihai: Movies about writers
Here is another excellient post by Cristian Mihai. This time the article will appeal to the movie enthusiasts of you. Cristian reviews briefly the 10 movies that he likes best on the subject of “writers” (and their troubles with writing).
via David McWilliams: The tracker tail’s sorry ending
() Do you remember the ad in which a bloke on the top floor of a Dublin bus stands up and admits to all the passengers: “I don’t know what a tracker mortgage is”? He stands up, unsure of himself, and makes his public confession, half-petrified. You can see the relief on his face as he admits that he hasn’t a “rasher’s”. (…)
Yes, I do remember this ad.
It symbolizes much of what went wrong in Ireland during the run up to the property crash; widespread ignorance about personal finances, inadequate bank regulations and the tracker mortgage.
McWilliams narrates the story of the tracker and why it puts a huge brake on the recovery of the Irish economy for years to come.
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