The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Half Murph again, back is sore but I think it is muscular tightness.

Would love to get out of the city but if i do... how will i delta?

Discourse analysis... ah, that's the difference: spoken, natural languages vs language learning materials

Learned some more things: Found out that I can easily combine video clips on Mac using Quicktime! This changes everything!

Chang with espresso

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Have a good weelend!

20.2022!

Website being hit by something...

Stinky ginko trees

Two songs of China... Raining Blood, Welcome to the Jungle

Two guys, five bottles of wine, and microphone... yeap.. SSP34 up! It's a long one!

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Have a good one!

A clarification on using abbreviations..., guess you can't say what really happened, ie, yep, shit broke. You had to wait. But honestly, just use plain language.

I have a secret... I had McDonalds shhhh (on Monday)

OBS software... learned how to blur the background. The only problem? It just looks like Im blurring out all the junk in the background.

And... could I automate it's opening?

DELTA tasks... look at the guideline answers to the task you're responding to, line by line match up the features you see. Am thinking about how much time I have left until the exam.

Congress continues... how long could Xi Jinping be in power?

More importantly, Double 11 is coming up!

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Have a good one!

And wtf is an MI? Major incident? WTF IA MI WWASE?

what the fuck is a major incident when we all speak English?

The Art of War and how it applies to learning a language

DELTA course progress - starting Unit 7

The Institute of Human Anatomy - they use real cadavers!

-What alcohol does to your body

-very informative and focuses on the physiological response

-but what about mental, and why has it stuck around for so long? Hard to argue with ancient descriptions of its powerful influence

Learned something about soy sauce today:

-生抽 is for flavour and is slightly salty

-老抽 is for colour

SSP34 in the works

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Have a good one!

Congress kicks off, what are the results?

A bit more success with Chinese reading as I continue to review vocab

Physio in aft so no double workout.

DELTA progress

And a little spacey track to start your week!

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Enjoy!

Modified Murph cause I didn't want to do pull ups on the tree outside, I think that has been contributing to my back pain.

Bought some newspapers to mark the occasion: Oct 16th kicks off the 20th CPC Congress. A lot of stocks were up today!

Lockdowns affecting many... outside of Beijing.

The more I read for the DELTA, the more I see my own failures in studying Mandarin Chinese.

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Have a good weekend!

Flying cars from China to the UAE

The banner of the people... figures it would happen now.

Angela Lansbury passed away

Michael Erard's (2012) review of the cases of some of history's most successful learners of multiple languages shows that their unusual talent was also associated with a willingness to work hard at tasks that many would consider too boring or difficult, such as using word cards to study vocabulary. (Lightbrown and Spada 83)

Can't buy anything cause nothing can get shipped to Beijing!

Russian invasion meant to deplete US and NATO arsenal? If Russia can prolong and Ukraine continues to rely on Western weapons without making its own, then there can be a slow bleed of Western munitions supply. Imagine who Russia could be working with on this one.

Don't need writers, need eyes and ad revenue. How to generate? Hit the posts with he words you want to trens with a bunch of bots?

Net zero doesn't mean there won't be pollution or extra heat!

Want a good workout? Stand on a bunch of towels! It'll work all of those little muscles we tend to neglect in our other workouts.

DELTA reading: are tests necessary and how fair are they?

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Have a good one!

Some new shows to watch: new season of Family Guy and... a black guy as Louis the vampire?

Hellraiser reboot with a woman? Still haven't seen the original. Worth it?

Never really liked horror movies in general.

McDonalds, fast food and supply chains, you feeling the pinch? Every time I think of getting it I either go for Chinese fast food or just make it myself.

Working on a few writings. Sometimes these posts just write themselves, other times it's a struggle.

And DELTA reading...

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Have a good one!

Back to work already... well, some started on Saturday!

Kyiv being bombed in reaction to the Kerch Strait Bridge being bombed.

Elon Musk trying to get into the Ukrainian War conversation after releasing Optimus. Company's stock is down quite a bit. Paypal, his former company, has also been getting hit.

How real is the threat of nuclear war? What would we do? When will 'all of this' end? What would you like to see in order to consider things to have returned to 'normal'?

Big wind, but the wind in people's sails seems to have lessened.

Now on Substack! Trying it out to see how it goes.

stevensirski.substack.com

How many platforms? And how often to publish?

Website updated!

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Thanks for listening!