Definite Articles, On Public Transportation?

One of the first things you learn, for any language, is the definite article.  In Spanish and in French there are several,       and  in   Greek,

there are more!

But, in Esperanto, there is only one!  Ok, like Hebrew, but still, pretty cool, no?

That, you can easily learn, even on a moving Metro Bus! 

Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I will rework these notes in my other languages.

Any thoughts on how your previously learned languages help hook the new material?

More soon,

and

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        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages builds, and a little more good example via story, will help all of us learn to be more open to the needs, feelings, and happiness of others.

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Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing,

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It’s All Greek To Me, On Public Transportation!

In the beginning, I thought I could study Esperanto by using all of the languages that I either know, or am studying.  After all, it is an entirely different language family from Greek, Turkish, or Hebrew (well, ok, actually, principles are taken from each of those languages, as well…), and Spanish and French are quite comfortable for me.  But probably not enough to study on a moving bus. 

Oops.   There is still the time, and hand cramp, of writing in vocabulary for each of those languages, and having to look up the Turkish, Greek, and often the Hebrew, which I dropped because it is just too much to try to track the differences between modern and Biblical Hebrew while learning other languages at the same time.

Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I will rework these notes in my other languages.

Any thoughts on how your previously learned languages help hook the new material?

More soon,

and

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com

        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages builds, and a little more good example via story, will help all of us learn to be more open to the needs, feelings, and happiness of others.

…

Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing, or even writing a guest blog post here, about #ProjectDoBetter.  Phase I aims to build empathy for public goods (libraries, transit, healthcare, and education) via language study and story, among other tools.

Shira Destinie A.  Jones, MPhil

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Reflexive Public Transportation?

Reflexive verbs can get no simpler than this!

Right, kids?

Now, if only we can reflect on our own usage of various means of clean and healthy transportation…

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Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I will rework these notes in my other languages.

Any thoughts on how your previously learned languages help hook the new material?

More soon,

and

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com

        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages builds, and a little more good example via story, will help all of us learn to be more open to the needs, feelings, and happiness of others.

…

Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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B5, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem, Lupin, or La Casa De Papel/Money Heist Reviews,

Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing, or even writing a guest blog post here, about #ProjectDoBetter.  Phase I aims to build empathy for public goods (libraries, transit, healthcare, and education) via language study and story, among other tools.

Shira Destinie A.  Jones, MPhil

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Esperanto Wall Collage To Learn A Language As We Walk?

     Hanging your vocabulary on the wall as a collage may not actually result in your learning a it without effort, but in the case of Esperanto, it will help you remember the words and connect them with other root words or grammar points.  Since there are fewer and more logically connected words in Esperanto, you might just learn this languge while you walk to the bus stop with your neighbors and friends.

More soon,

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        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages  together can build, along with a bit more compassion for those who have been historically pushed out, can help eventually build in more understanding, leading to more equitable distribution,  and happiness for everyone.

…

Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing, or even writing a guest blog post here, about #ProjectDoBetter.  Phase I aims to build empathy for public goods (libraries, transit, healthcare, and education) via language study and story, among other tools.

Shira Destinie A.  Jones, MPhil

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Esperanto Learning for Membership On Public Transportation?

The Esperanto suffix “-an” denotes membership in something, a group of people, or a nation, as the last six lines of today’s notes show.

     So, then, does speaking Esperanto while walking to the bus or metro or trolley stop denote membership in  something, other than the group of people who support good public transportation for everyone while learning a more inclusive language (European Union, we still wonder why this pan-European language has not yet been adopted as at least a working language, if not an official language, of the EU…)?  Given the interest  that some of my blog readers have expressed over several years in my language learning ability, I thought I might share some of my Esperanto language learning journey here with anyone who might like to see how this well organized language compares with other more organically evolved and randomly developed languages.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I hope to have time to rework these notes in my other languages.

Do you, fellow Wonderers, have any thoughts on how your previously learned languages help hook the new materials that you want to learn, or how those languages you have studied help you to see the world in a different light?

More soon,

and

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        One hopes, and soon, that the empathy that studying languages builds, and a lot more compassion, will help all of us learn to be more open to the needs, feelings, and needs of others.

…

Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing, or even writing a guest blog post here, about #ProjectDoBetter.  Phase I aims to build empathy for public goods (libraries, transit, healthcare, and education) via language study and story, among other tools.

Shira Destinie A.  Jones, MPhil

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A Language Too Far For The Bus Stop?

One Language Too Many?

So, as you can see, I started off taking my notes in Spanish, as I often think in Spanish, but “Como” does not mesh with “quatr-vans” in most cases, even if como sounds like comment (fr), and I have no recollection of why I made that comment(en)…

Greek will have to wait a few months for me to post some of my notes, but many thanks to Juanjo Fantoso for his free video series on learning Greek in Castillian (European) Spanish, which is much easier to learn from Castillian Spanish than from English.

Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I will rework these notes in my other languages.

Any thoughts, fellow Language Learners, on how your previously learned languages help hook the new material?

More soon,

and

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto.

        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages builds will rub off on others as we work to build a more compassionate world, and to build both the ability to put ourselves in other peoples’ shoes, as well as the caring for and about other people, necessary to make a democratic society actually work as such.  We really can Do Better, everybody.

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Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing, or even writing a guest blog post here, about #ProjectDoBetter.  Phase I aims to build empathy for public goods (libraries, transit, healthcare, and education) via language study and story, among other tools.

Shira Destinie A.  Jones, MPhil

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#LanguageLearning To Walk Together To the Bus/Trolley/Metro?

Learning in Community, Walking Together

Language learning can build a sort of solidarity, like walking together, or seeing the same folks on the bus or train each day.

Recalling how fellow bus riders in Izmir helped me translate some years back, I also recall the idea from Project Do Better for allowing riders to stand for free on public transportation.  In a world where the cooperative ideals of Esperantists (those who speak Esperanto) come to fruition, standing on mass transit could be free of charge, potentially, no?

Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I will rework these notes in my other languages.

Any thoughts on how your previously learned languages help hook the new material?

More soon,

and

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com

        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages builds, and a little more good example via story, will help all of us learn to be more open to the needs, feelings, and happiness of others.

…

Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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Click here to read, if you like:

B5, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem, Lupin, or La Casa De Papel/Money Heist Reviews,

Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing, or even writing a guest blog post here, about #ProjectDoBetter.   Phase I aims to build empathy for public goods (libraries, transit, healthcare, and education) via language study and story, among other tools.

Shira Destinie A.  Jones, MPhil

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Where Are the Eat-Together Urban CLTs?

    This post is a request for brain cycles.  I need help searching for any urban communities where people eat together, live together, and work to build found family, preferably on land that is part of a Community Land Trust (or as part of a community that intentionally works to build on a basis of trust and intention to increase both affordable housing and democratic processes), particularly in cities with actually usable public transportation, like San Francisco, DC, or New York…  I had initially wanted to include an acre per person in Project Do Better, but dropped that after seeing the high levels of opposition to the idea, and instead added both Baby Bonds and the idea of a 20x20x20 Tiny Condo per person, with the hope that some form of land sharing could become more viable over time, as the phases of Project Do Better help to build broad coalitions and develop greater cooperation among all citizens and residents, over the 70 year time span (give or take a decade), during which the Project initially unfolds (as modified by different community organizers who edit versions of their own communities’ Do Better man.   While I have seen a few examples of CLTs, and seen them presented as a means of increasing renter-ownership, I have been wondering if they could also be part of a set of economic reforms that allow for building democracy through greater shared land ownership in common, and indeed, it seems that others also believe that “the exercise of civil rights required the security that land ownership provides.”   Such shared ownership of land seems a reasonable solution, since individual land ownership is mostly out of reach for most of us, and given the additional fact that: 

“In 1910, Black farmers owned fifteen million acres of farmland. By 1982, that had shrunk to three million acres, an 80 percent decline. See Abril Castro and Calus Z. Willingham, “Progressive Governance Can Turn the Tide for Black Farmers,” Center for American Progress, April 3, 2019. ↩“

Shira

Action Items:

1.) Share your thoughts on Intentional Community, eating together, and land ownership, please.

2.) Write a story, post or comment that uses the idea of shared community to make a difference in our society.

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Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

aka Shira, or:

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#LanguageLearning To Talk on the Bus?

No native language Study

  This way of learning Esperanto by studying in Turkish, I find, can be a good way to continue to improve my Turkish while learning the basics of Esperanto at the same time.  I will admit that I often had, in my early study back in October (I am scheduling this ahead in November, ’22, for May of ’23 to be able to work on my writing…), to fall back on my Spanish more often than I liked.  But  This method helped me to continue consolidating my written Turkish, which I have always found far more challenging than spoken Turkish, while adding myself to the Esperantist community.

Recalling how fellow bus riders in Izmir helped me translate some years back, I also recall the idea from Project Do Better for allowing riders to stand for free on public transportation (see the link below to the Do Better man…).  In a world where the cooperative ideals of Esperantists (those who speak Esperanto) come to fruition, standing on mass transit could be free of charge, potentially, no?

Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I will rework these notes in my other languages.

Any thoughts on how your previously learned languages help hook the new material?

More soon,

and

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com

        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages builds, and a little more good example via story, will help all of us learn to be more open to the needs, feelings, and happiness of others.

…

Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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Babylon 5, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem, Lupin, or La Casa De Papel/Money Heist Reviews,

Holistic Learning with either  College Algebra, or  GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing, or even writing a guest blog post here, about #ProjectDoBetter.      Phase I aims to build empathy for public goods (libraries, transit, healthcare, and education) via language study and story, among other tools.

Shira Destinie A.  Jones, MPhil

Shira Destinie Jones’ work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

#LanguageLearning To Stand for Free on the Bus?

Stari -Ayakta Dur/Kalmak -To Stand

  This way of learning Esperanto by studying in Turkish, I find, is a good way to continue to improve my Turkish while learning the basics of Esperanto at the same time.

Thinking of the limerick that fellow bus riders in Izmir helped me translate some years back, I also recall the idea from Project Do Better for allowing riders to stand for free on public transportation (see the link below to the Do Better Man…).  In a world where the cooperative ideals of Esperantists (those who speak Esperanto) come to fruition, standing on mass transit could be free of charge, potentially, no?

Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I will rework these notes in my other languages.

Any thoughts on how your previously learned languages help hook the new material?

More soon,

and

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com

        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages builds, and a little more good example via story, will help all of us learn to be more open to the needs, feelings, and happiness of others.

…

Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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Click here to read, if you like:

B5, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem, Lupin, or La Casa De Papel/Money Heist Reviews,

Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing, or even writing a guest blog post here, about #ProjectDoBetter.  Phase I aims to build empathy for public goods (libraries, transit, healthcare, and education) via language study and story, among other tools.

Shira Destinie A.  Jones, MPhil

Shira Destinie Jones’ work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.