Tongues

The course is going well despite taking up a massive chunk (all?) of my writing time each day. This is 'accelerated learning' and there's a constant switch of tempo and activities. Won't be able to gauge how much I've retained until afterwards I suppose.

Once upon a long time ago, I studied Italian in Leeds. There was a linguistics lecturer who - at the start of the lesson - hit the desk with a tuning fork, then waited until the reverb completely died away before he started speaking. Hmm I dropped out after one year and went to art college which was a whole lot more fun.

The fascinating bit of this course is seeing how everyone starts to speak a new tongue in precisely the same manner as they would their own - very hard to 'shake off' the self. There's a fair amount of acting needed to learn a language methinks.

Anyway will be posting the regular round up of local and international script and film opportunities and reminders soon.

Later.

...

uxolo ndigxamile, ndifunda isixhosa...


small prize for first correct translation. Back soon.

January

Schools are still out, so is the sun. And since it's the long 'builders holiday' here no one's really in a rush to get back to work, just yet.

Blog posts might be a bit sparse from next week, as I'm learning another language - crash course - three hours a morning, for three weeks! Hopefully by Feb I may even be able to sing along to this

Or let's see if I can get this youtube link right.



There's a better live recording here too but I can't put it up.

My mum says it was one of my father's favourites.

Miriam Makeba. Pitanga cherries. Red dusty feet. Kenema. Eish I can almost remember

Later.