Virtual snowflakes

I remember cutting out snowflakes out of the paper around New Year time. It was fun and strangely addictive. I thought I was over it.

Obviously not, as I have found this virtual Make-a-Flake game (if one can call it that) and I am snipping away again.

Less-popular language learning resources links

Stingy Scholar has collected a list of links to language study websites for less-popular languages (think Greek, Korean and Icelandic).

Recommended for comparison and (if you language is on the list) for the study.

Speak multiple languages, ready to travel

If you speak more than one language and have a blog, join the Carnival of Blog Translation.

I am not a translator, but I do speak (and write) English and Russian.  I will be participating. The next step is to figure out whether I should do it from Russian into English or from English into Russian. Maybe I can even do both. Certainly a translation practice could not go astray.

My first machinima movie

My movie has been in the development for a while. It started around Christmas, but took a long while to get all 3 voice-over tracks recorded, edited and aligned to subtitles.

In addition, the Movies game – which is what I used – has infuriating habits of losing the subtitle and sound track locations around if one wants to redo a scene or recut the sequence. And the camera work could have been more flexible. Still, it is better than machinima environments available before (as described in the Wired’s article).

I think my next movie will be about robots. At least there I can get away with a fake voice.
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Flashcards I am using to prepare for RSCDS preliminary examination

I am sitting for the part one of the RSCDS‘ preliminary teaching certificate. The part one is mostly theory and history, so involves a good lot of memorisation, with the hope that memorised facts will aid later deep comprehension.

I am using flashcards to help me remember the facts. I have free software installed on my computer (Pauker) for the best results, but I also have an online copy to quickly practice at work. That stack is publicly available on Flashcard Exchange website, so anybody else could use it as well.

Alex.