learning

Linguno has been my favorite language learning website for a while now.

For the longest time, I really only paid attention to the excellent verb practice exercises.

Recently, though, I ran out of other online games to play and tried one of the Linguno crosswords. I don't think I had realized that they offer lots of monolingual crosswords - with the clues in the language you're practicing - but I was immediately delighted. I am repeatedly amazed at how well those relatively simple phrases in the practice language reinforce and expand my understanding.

There was a terrific post on Metafilter about the On Verticality blog:  On Verticality "explores the innate human need to escape the surface of the earth, and our struggles to do so throughout history."

In the comments, a couple of folks mentioned Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning, which I'd never heard of before.

What a magical flock of ideas fluttered in my mind at that phrase.

There are so many amazing resources on the internet; somehow, every time I come across another one, I'm surprised and delighted all over again.

Over on Ask MetaFilter, someone was asking about filmed versions of Macbeth, and one of my favorite folks at MetaFilter, The Wrong Kind of Cheese, posted a great answer:

Here are some of the sites I'm visiting the most this month:

Kwiziq Spanish and Kwiziq French

I don't do a lot of the quizzes (although I could be doing more than I am, I should do that), but I find the grammar explanations and the example sentences really helpful. Some sites have example sentences that seem like things that no one would ever say, or that don't really illustrate the grammar point very well; Kwiziq does a really good job here.

Someone over on Ask MetaFilter asked about paid search engines, and the hive mind, being the helpful hive mind that they are, also suggested various free alternatives to Google Search.

One of the recommendations was for Lycos:

I was reading Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this? , and it contained this assertion:

All people learn by exposure to diverse examples. 

I found that intriguing, and did a quick search to try to learn more.

Background: "Nature Publishing Group told the University of California that next year subscription prices would increase 400 percent, with the average annual cost of a journal increasing to $17,479. UC Libraries fought back with a combative letter to UC faculty suggesting that faculty should consider boycotting the journals, and cease submitting or reviewing articles for these journals." via Metafilter