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Re: Baselang Review: You HAVE to use this for your Spanish!

Bob — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 19:41:13 -0000

The price is going up to $129 a month on Jan 1st, 2017. Still looks like a good deal. Know anything like this for French?

Re: Running very large scripts is not a strong area for SSMS

Bob — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 07:03:09 -0000

Thanks. I will have to look into this. When I hit this error, I was able to get around it sometimes by shrinking TempDB. This was on my laptop. Other times, I had to break up the script.

Re: Why I Decided to Give The Pimsleur Approach A Second Chance

Bob — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 08:33:03 -0000

Yes. Luckily my old library had a decent selection of Pimsleur languages. I did all three volumes of French during my commute to work. You wont get a massive vocabulary; but, you will be very comfortable with the vocabulary you acquire.

I am a little surprised new online courses have not put more price pressure on them. They do seem to be a premium priced product. You can get more vocabulary with audio much cheaper through Assimil. But, they still fill the niche of mobile learning very well.

Re: Data Modeling in Agile Development: One Data Modeler’s Experience

Bob — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:58:16 -0000

I follow the same method. After a request/story, we will usually white board some high level relationships. Then I can model for initial tables. With everyone sitting in the same room, turnaround is quick.

Re: Polyglot Gathering Berlin 2015 Trip Report

Bob — Mon, 11 May 2015 12:15:48 -0000

Thanks for the review. I hope they post the lectures online. I think I watch all of them from last year.

Re: AFP 48 – Mike Campbell: Sentence-based learning and Glossika

Bob — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:44:57 -0000

Thanks for the update.

Re: AFP 48 – Mike Campbell: Sentence-based learning and Glossika

Bob — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:34:36 -0000

Is there an ETA on Japanese?

Re: Pimsleur Approach Review – An Honest Look

Bob — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:17:45 -0000

It looks like it is only available with a French or Spanish base.

Re: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014

Bob — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:38:41 -0000

Thank you Chris for bringing quality content and the Podcast. Your willingness to share the ups and downs of language learning in addition to the advice of the process is refreshing. Your casual tone and openness hits home with what I and probably a lot of learners go through. I hope you feel better soon.

Re: The Spaced Repetition Snowball: How to become overwhelmed by learning vocabulary

Bob — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:36:14 -0000

I recently did a similar experiment and upped two decks to 40 new cards per day. I also had the same results. I will probably leave decks at the default 20 new cards.

Re: Review: Collins Dictionaries for Ultralingua on Android

Bob — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:27:02 -0000

Great find. I will pick a fun synonym: apogee.

Re: Trip report: Joining the Esperanto-Club and buying cafés

Bob — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:04:04 -0000

On my To Do list. I start German in October with a MOOC from Coursera.

Re: Trip report: Joining the Esperanto-Club and buying cafés

Bob — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:20:39 -0000

Great intro. Esperanto always seemed interesting even before I got interested in languages. A common universal language appeals to the SciFi geek in me.

Re: How you can use MOOCs for improving your language skills

Bob — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:37:24 -0000

Taking a German class in October. First MOOC from Coursera.

Re: On the way to mastery – plan of action

Bob — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 12:40:29 -0000

Sounds like a good plan. I think the reading will get you the proper input you need.

Re: AFP 21 – Richard Simcott: 20th Episode Special!

Bob — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:13:52 -0000

I got it working. Ready for next episode.

Re: 21 principles for learning a new language

Bob — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:09:31 -0000

About #19 revise, I like to re-read Assimil lessons before moving on to the next lesson. I go back 3-5 lessons and read them again. It does my review and I have a running start at the new lesson.

Re: AFP 21 – Richard Simcott: 20th Episode Special!

Bob — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:07:45 -0000

I am still having problems with iTunes.

Re: AFP 21 – Richard Simcott: 20th Episode Special!

Bob — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:59:04 -0000

Thanks for another great episode Chris. I have listened to them all so far and have one more new one to catch up. My iTunes feed was not updating, so I came directly here.

Re: Post-war Borders and Expulsion | Understanding Germany

Bob — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:57:09 -0000

That you for the information and starting this blog. The victors may wright the history books. But, there is always another side of the story. Also, being almost half German, I am looking forward to more insight into my heritage.

Re: Beliefs of American University Students Towards Foreign Language Requirements and Textbooks

Bob — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:58:53 -0000

I agree. I think high education is long overdue for a major overhaul. I have yet to use my college art class personally or professionally. Yet, that was mandatory. The Bio class was nicknamed Back Test 101 because you needed back tests to get through it. So, did students get more out of these mandatory classes. I doubt it.

The quotes in the article show students ignorance. Higher education should help eliminate ignorance. Which classes should be mandatory can debated ad nauseam.

Re: Beliefs of American University Students Towards Foreign Language Requirements and Textbooks

Bob — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:08:53 -0000

I graduated in the 80s with a BS in Computer Science. Although I took 2 years of Spanish in HS as part of the college prep track. A foreign language was not required for graduation with a BS degree.

Now I wish it was. Is it directly related to working in IT. No. But, I have been in meetings where I am the only American in the room. Learning about the language and culture of my coworkers builds a better team. And, just like sports, the best team is usually the most successful.

It is a great ice breaker when you can say a few words in someones native language. I have had long conversations with people who barely say hello to most people in the office. So even my limited language abilities opens doors.

Re: Giveaway: Employees First, Customers Second

Bob — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:28:17 -0000

I hope this is much better then "The Customer Comes Second" by Hal Rosenbluth.

Re: Giveaway: Employees First, Customers Second

Bob — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:26:36 -0000

I’m an employee and I’m first.

Re: Do Women Make The Best Project Managers?

Bob — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:41:42 -0000

I worked for many female project managers when I started in the 90s. Which seems pretty rare considering the number of females in IT at the time. So I learned a lot about the soft skills needed. It definitely made me a more balanced manager.