(08-04-2021, 12:41 PM)Blue Bird Wrote: For me, it's hard to learn new words and grammar. I'm more of the math type. English however is an exception. I must have been about 5 years old when I first heard it and I was passionate from the very beginning. Learning English at school was ok, but I haven't really learned to speak, read and understand. That came with my visits to Scotland, Ireland and England. I'm still struggling with your prepositions and when to use which time.

I think school is in part a waist of time. I had Latin, French, Spanish and English at school - so many hours that I could have spent better. For example, how to deal with life's challenges and learn Hebrew.

For me, the amazing thing with a foreign language is, that I can speak with other people who don't speak my language and really understand what they say.

(08-04-2021, 08:41 PM)Blue Bird Wrote: Go ahead! You'll find a lot  in Switzerland, another reason for you to move there.

(08-04-2021, 11:15 PM)Dana Wrote: The only language I've ever taken seriously enough to stay with was Hebrew. I toyed with Italian, Spanish, and American Sign Language but had not stayed with it for a significant amount of time.  Hebrew was different in that it was tied into my belief system which was at the time in a church so there was a passion.  I loved it and felt connected from the start. Since the corona virus I've stopped learning.

Bluebird, my way of learning the Hebrew language was through reading stories beginning of course with simple and progressing on.   If you are interested I can make a recommendation with a fairly inexpensive primer.

Visits in Scotland and Ireland is pretty amazing and to learn the English there is a nice testimony for learning the language. One day I dream of going to Ireland. I receive podcasts on Gaelic speaking for beginners but they don't have books for learning like Hebrew.  And that language seems hard!

My interest in language is not so much to be perfect with grammar but to understand what the other is saying as well.

searchingmyroots Wrote:...they certainly can subsidize the farmers a lot more...

(08-05-2021, 01:23 PM)Alan_Boskov Wrote: Bill Gates is buying up all available farmland. Trust him. He'll take care of us all:

(08-05-2021, 02:50 PM)Alan_Boskov Wrote: If you take the time to view your reputation list, you'll find my e-mail adress there. I posted it there, because my private messaging function isn't working. Not that you didn't deserve the reputation point given 

(08-05-2021, 01:23 PM)Alan_Boskov Wrote:

searchingmyroots Wrote:...they certainly can subsidize the farmers a lot more...

Bill Gates is buying up all available farmland. Trust him. He'll take care of us all:
https://nypost.com/2021/01/15/bill-gates-is-the-largest-farmland-owner-in-america-report/
He won't be able to hire armed guards, in order to prevent unauthorized harvesting. I've been known for arriving home with a couple bags full of corn ears and a few sugar beets later on near Winter. It's all subsidized. So what I'm doing is basically harvesting what I payed those farmers to plant  I suppose, others could do likewise, with justification, because Microsoft has been sticking it to us for years with new planned to be obsolete operating systems of which Windows 98 was the best among all of them