Vyborg is 130 km to the North of St. Petersburg, and only 30 or so km from the Finnish border. For a long time it was a Finnish/Swedish town, and it has a definite Scandinavian feel to it. What attracted me there was the friendliness of two of its…
Over the next week or so I will be posting about my visit to Russia. This trip far exceeded my expectations. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was like a reward for my more than one thousand hours of listening to and reading Russian. Being surrounde…
The Stanley Cup playoffs are usually the highlight of the professional hockey season in North America. These playoffs are followed on television in Canada, the US and in Europe. The present final is a disgrace. I predict that in ten years European…
I have not been writing about my travels in Russia because of the following reasons. 1) I have been too busy simply enjoying myself. 2) I did not bring my USB cable so I cannot upload my pictures. I bought a card reader here in Moscow but either i…
Thursday evening June 2 at 7.00 pm. Meet up for LingQ members and language keeners at the Teplo Restaurant. Let me know if you can make it. We are also planning a meet up in Moscow on June 7 also at 7.00 pm You can also see thread at the LingQ Forum.
Today I am starting my fifth day in St. Petersburg. I am having a spectacular time. It rained a lot the first day, which turned out to be the “day of the city” with parades and throngs of people on the Nevski Prospect, with music and a lot of peop…
Here is a recent video I did on this subject. The more the pieces of the language come together, the more other pieces start to fall into place. At first nothing makes sense, and you wonder if anything ever will. But as you persevere, and find sma…
The recent arrest of IMF President Strauss-Kahn raises a few questions in my mind. I have no idea about the substance of the accusations. Maybe this was a set up by a political opponent for all I know. But I would like to know why a socialist publ…
This thread at the LingQ Forum talks about the effectiveness of LingQ, and how best to enable new users to see the power of LingQing.
Here is an interesting video on motivation. The three keys to motivating people are, according to the video 1)autonomy 2)mastery 3) purpose, and not monetary rewards. I think that this argument should be used in union negotiations, especially with…
