although its sail is down, it is still a sailboat, isn't it?
this is from last month's foray to the west end of the city, when it was hot and humid and did i say hot? unlike today, dark, cloudy, stormy, yet still humid. so i still stayed home and started sorting out the books on my shelves, with the aim of trimming it down to just a half a shelf instead of three. in the process i saw my french assimil book and tapes and i decided to brush up on my spoken french and vocabulary, because you never know when i might encounter a french-speaking person. i should reinstate my french magazine subscriptions, but then again, i can't read them, because they're in french! 😜
i also got hold of my old spanish books and tapes. but i won't mix them up now. it's quite funny to see or hear me speak spanish as i unconsciously would switch to french then back to spanish again. most times i couldn't even understand myself. 🤣
i found out today, too, that my little grandson, darren, (who is no longer little because he's going to be sixteen next week) has signed up on 365. if you're so inclined, you might want to check his album out at @darrencruzzz and give him a bit of encouragement and let me know if he takes after grandmaman. i might be biased (well, of course i am) but methinks he is quite good!
such a beautiful photogtaph and such a funny little story.
a German teacher once told us in a course (probably the best teacher of German I ever had) that the brain area dealing with languages is one for all the languages. And that is why we switch languages when we learn more than one. I could not argue that, because I have no clue. But I liked the explanation. And it was in German. And everyone knows that German is a scary language.
And getting back to the photo, I wonder if this would qualify for a monochrome.
Such a wonderful capture of this fabulous setting. I used to have language problems to. We grew up having two mother languages here in SA. Then I went to Germany and had to learn German which is not easy at all. Having similarities with Afrikaans, I kept on getting the words mixed up. Now when I want to speak Afrikaans here in SA, it is mostly German that enters my mind and I have to force myself to concentrate. I learned Italian too, but forgot almost all of it over the years. My brain just cannot cope with it all ;-)
Living on a very large island where the only official language is English and most people speak only English means that there are few Aussies who are fluent in other languages. Most of us have a smattering of French, German, Italian, Bahasa Indonesia or ?? from school, but truly fluent speakers are rare.
Love your story. it’d be nice to visit you again, and maybe you could teach me some French and Spanish too! 😂 We’ll learn together, because, like you said, “you’ll never know when you might encounter a French (or Spanish) speaking person! “Je t’aime, to me manques ❤️“
It is a beautiful and very clear photo. I am wondering why you would think it’s not a sailboat if it’s not in full sail. Soap is still soap even when you are not washing with it! N’est ce pas?
I like the contrast between the white boat and the beautiful blues. I learnt French at high school and we took Spanish lessons before going to South America. I'm afraid that my smattering of Spanish was often mixed up with my smattering of French :)
a German teacher once told us in a course (probably the best teacher of German I ever had) that the brain area dealing with languages is one for all the languages. And that is why we switch languages when we learn more than one. I could not argue that, because I have no clue. But I liked the explanation. And it was in German. And everyone knows that German is a scary language.
And getting back to the photo, I wonder if this would qualify for a monochrome.
I showed the link to my wife.
@summerfield Halve that price you get a signed one from me.