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Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service | Techdirt

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Public Concern Over NSA Spying Increasing. Wyden And Udall: Latest Revelations Of Abuses. Fri, Aug 16th 2013 3:59pm. The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business. Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service. That same article suggests that the decision to shut down Lavabit was over something much bigger. Than just looking at one ind...

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cyrillic – Language Geek

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Just blogging about my language geekery. Cyrillic Handwriting – Take Three! After reading the comments on my last post, along with Geoff’s blog post response. 8221; I can actually see such peering and wondering as detrimental to my acquisition of the language, and Russian has enough hurdles without me adding more! In short, for. Having said that, if you’re learning Russian,. Learn the cursive, at least to a passive recognition stage; and furthermore, if you find it faster, more legible, or just plain more.

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cursive cyrillic – Language Geek

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Just blogging about my language geekery. Cyrillic Handwriting – Should You Learn It? I saw a forum post at How To Learn Any Language. Which caught my interest. Namely, Iversen (who’s word list method I’m still using, by the way) said:. I disagree with Chelovek on one point – his recommandation of cursive writing. He has a good point, I think. Before seeing it in my language books, guess how many times I’d seen cursive Cyrillic handwriting? September 11, 2008. Language Geek on Facebook. Top Posts and Pages.

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Grammar – Language Geek

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Just blogging about my language geekery. Geoff wrote a post. A few weeks ago about the idea of learning a language without grammar, and I quite liked this bit:. In learning Russian, I’m experiencing something like this. I’m using Assimil’s Russisch ohne Mühe along with the New Penguin Russian Course; Assimil is more packed with sentences, whereas the Penguin course is rather grammar heavy. I’m finding that I grasp grammar more fully after learning the grammar points via the Penguin course, and then.

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German – Language Geek

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Just blogging about my language geekery. I’m going to have to change my methods a bit, specifically in how I approach dealing with all of my target languages. For the record, currently I’m studying:. German is still more or less a task of vocabulary learning. The others, however, still involve a lot more, and trying to balance them all out is proving to be more difficult than I expected it to be. For those of you who have tackled numerous languages at once, how have you handled this dilemma? June 24, 2009.

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anki – Language Geek

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Just blogging about my language geekery. What do you put in your SRS? I’ve been reflecting on how I use Anki, my SRS program, and I think I’ve perhaps gone a bit overboard with it. For a long while now, any unknown word that I’ve come across has gone into it – even words that I really don’t need (or even particularly. I probably don’t, so I deleted it. How do you decide what to put into your SRS? Basically advocates adding stuff that you find interesting, but in following that rule, I feel like I’m...

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Confessions of a Language Addict. Confessions in August 2011. Updated August 30, 2011. Http:/ confessionsofalanguageaddict.wordpress.com/. With the posts dwindling as my enthusiasm for typing them in HTML wore down, I've moved this blog to WordPress. The archives will stay here, but for now, new entries will be at the WordPress site. Hope to see you there. August 30, 2010 - Good Strategy/Bad Strategy. Recently, I started reading Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy. I've sometimes said that language learn...

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ipod – Language Geek

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Just blogging about my language geekery. How much listening do you do? I’m curious as to how much listening others do, specifically, listening to material that you have no transcript for. For a while, I was listening to all sorts of stuff; I used Global Maverick’s guide to organizing foreign language listening material with iTunes. Synced it with my iPod Touch, and had ear buds stuffed in my ears for hours on end. I’m not sure of how helpful it really is. February 9, 2010. Has a great post. As he says, w...

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English – Language Geek

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Just blogging about my language geekery. Using Google As A Teacher. Jim Stroud from EnglishCafe.com. Wrote an interesting document about using Google as an aid to language learning. Many of his tips involve using Google’s vast text index to compare a search to what Google has on hand, for example:. 3 Is there a word missing? By using an asterix in a sentence, Google will assume that a word is missing and search for phrases that it thinks fills in that blank. For example…. 8220;How are you doing today?

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assimil – Language Geek

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Just blogging about my language geekery. Assimil’s second, active wave. The instructions found at the beginning of the Assimil Dutch course some time ago. I’ve found that the Assimil instructions are often rather lacking, and plenty of people post on forums asking: how exactly am I supposed to use this course? How should I go about doing the active phase? After seeing an excellent response to a question about the active wave, I took a look in my Dutch book to see what it had to say:. After two or three m...