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Fcrate:
Hello people, sorry I haven't been online in a while. Been pretty busy.
About 8 months ago while I was playing online, I got into a friendly argument with a french friend of mine about languages, he said Arabic sounds like a braying camel that's choking on a... ehm :D
I said that French is a language that God made exclusively for women and not to be spoken by any self respecting man, anyway, things escalated (in a fun way) and we had a bet on which of us would be able to carry a conversation in the other's language first. A 3rd party suggested I give the french guy a 6 month lead, as Arabic is a completely foreign language to a French/English speaker, while French is relatively familiar to an English speaker.
Anyway, the 6 months were up, and as of two months ago, I've been grinding on Duolingo
 @Regen: My cows are great :) I also got a litter of 7 puppies, and again their mother got mastitis, and stopped feeding them, so I've been doing that with a monster recipe of boiled sweet potatoes, milk, whey an flour. They're absolutely adorable, but they make me walk very slowly around the farm so that I don't step on any of them. The rhythm is: leg forward, no more than 5 cm off the ground, sweep puppy away with the outside of my foot, place my foot, put the other leg forward and repeat.
@Dina: Is that show where they spent half the episode mowing the grass, the other half kicking the ball and the third half showing the surprise of other players and spectators? The episode ending  mid-kick and the goal is scored in the next episode? :D I absolutely loved/hated it as a kid.
go :D
Anyway, how is everyone doing? how's the family, Regen? And Dina: Your hubby doing ok?
I haven't watched any games yet, sadly. But hopefully I'll get to watch France vs Denmark (I hope France loses so I can taunt my french friend, but it's unlikely. :(

Dina:
Ok, I am so nervous...just un hour to the beginning of the match.

Excellent about duolingo. We could write a little in French (I have it quite rusty, but I can say some things). I love French but that probably helps your point.
Glad about your cows and puppys!
I have not idea about the show as I did not watch it but I do remember for the promos that they ran and ran as if the field was kilometers long. I do remember the main character was called Oliver, at least here, so perhaps that helps you. Since i did that post I learned that apparently there is a modern, more violent animé called Blue Lock with Japanese young men enduring horrible training to become better at football. So everyone is saying Blue Lock is real, and it works.

My hubby is far from good but he is much better than last year, so that is something. Thanks for asking.

I am also still having struggles at work but it is all right. i'll survive. I have a "concurso" soon, for my main position. What is a "concurso" you ask, well, at the university, we have to validate our position every three years (more or less, the date can be a little fluid, in the sense that it could be more than three, but not less). At my university we have 2 kinds of jobs: simple or exclusive. Simple people only have to teach, and they have to work only a few hours a week, it is a half-time job which, of course, is not a well-paid job. Then, exclusive is full-time and in addition to teaching, you have to do research. That is my current job that I need to validate. Well, how to do that? All people who have a job and those who wants to have one apply to the concurso. A jury evaluates the antecedents (production of papers, books and such, years teaching, course, things like that) and then there is the "opposition" where every person teaches a small class. It's like 15 minutes, or 20, where you have to explain an exercise, or a practice the students have to do, something like that. Well, all that is evaluated, and a merit order list is created by the jury. Of course, those on the top, got the job.
So yes, it is pure stress! I do not know when we have to do the opposition class, but we already presented the applications, so it will be soon, or in February (January is the Summer recess here).
So, that is, stressful times.

Edited: We won!  :D
But hubby's computer is acting again. it is complicated, we may need to change it too soon. But ey, we won. That is what matters today.

Regenbogen:
France won.  My husband is happy, because they are betting about the outcome of each match at his work and he said 2:1 for France. Yay.  ;D
I also saw Argentina won. Congratulations, Dina!
Today is Germany vs Spain. If we lose that too, we'll be out. But this time I have a feeling that we win. Hope it is correct like the last one or there will be some very grumpy colleagues at work, lol. Not me, for me it is just a game, but there are some who get real feelings about it. I don't understand, but I can accept this: they get feelings about sports and I get feelings about books. As long as everybody has something they love...

@Fcrate: aaaaaaw, puppies!!!!!!  :)
LOL, your argument about French and Arabic. I have looked a bit into Arabic on Duolingo, but so far I haven't learned a lot. The beginning is mostly how to read it. Now, when I see some Arabic, I can say, this is aa and this could be ii. Looks beautiful, but what it means... No idea.
I've come far with Spanish, though. I'm going to try to read something soon and then I will see, how much I don't know, lol. We are rewatching Dexter and I can understand most of what Batista and LaGuerta are saying if they talk very slowly.

The family is fine. I am a bit busy with Christmas stuff. Every few days there is some event to sing or play music. Today in the late afternoon there is a big concert of several choirs. Mine is there too.

@Dina: concurso sounds bad. So you can't be sure if you will soon lose half your income if someone else gets your job? But you could apply in the next concurso in 3 years?
I wish you luck, that you can keep your job as it is.

Dina:
Well, there is still hope for Germany  :).
About concursos, yes, you are right. Generally, in-between those three years there are other chances, that are not regular. That means, they can be for shorter times  and they count a little less in your CV. But they pay you the same.

When you read your first thing in Spanish, tell us how you found it. I suspect you will do a great job.

Fcrate:
@Dina: I'm sorry to hear that. You have nothing to worry about. I'm sure you'll ace your presentation and keep your.... Tenure? What you said sounds like it.
Well, Argentina won VS Mexico, so that's good news at least :D
@Regen: I imagine learning arabic is like attempting to learn English script from the start. I don't know how duolingo teaches Arabic, but they're supposed to give you the letters separated then joined, for every word. Also the accents, which are much more integral to correct pronunciations than French. Now that I think about it, he should've had a 1 year lead. Lol

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