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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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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#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

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

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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Learning through story:

                                                   Babylon5, Hakan: Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem,  Lupin,  La Casa de Papel/Money Heist, or El Ministerio del Tiempo Reviews

Learning via Holistic College Algebra & GED/High School Lesson Plans,

           or

 Learning from Long Range Nonfiction, or Historical Fiction Writing (including Ann & Anna…)

     Also Fellow Community Builders, please consider reading and sharing with other interested folks about #ProjectDoBetter.   This Project is my life’s work.

Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

aka Shira, or:

ShiraDest

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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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Click here to read, if you are interested in:

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.

#LanguageLearning & Mass Transit For Cooperation?

sıfatlar a-vorta les Adjectives

  This set of vocabulary likely came from the site https://esperanto12.net/tr, which I have been using to learn Esperanto from Turkish.  Most countries, or at least Spain and France, seem to have their own Esperanto sites for internet learning, but not as much is available in Turkish.  This, I find, is a good way to work on my Turkish while learning the basics of Esperanto at the same time, although I do sometimes have to refer to the French part of the site, still.

Learning Esperanto is a great way to help others learn a language that can help the world become more a kinder place, and  fewer languages will go extinct, since everyone will learn the simple common language, and continue to learn other languages for cultural and friendship related reasons, but not out of pure economic necessity.  Sometimes, as we saw back on January 26th, learning a language can even engage an entire bus full of helpful native speakers! 

🙂

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

        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! 

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.

#LanguageLearning for A More Empathetic and Colorful World?

This page had colors, which is good, but I bit off a bit more than I could chew at the time with my  Greek, not there yet.  Unfortunately I have had to stop my study of modern Greek, and have all but given up on the earlier idea I had of reading the Septugaint, given my time and energy constraints.  I think I recall wanting to read the classics in Greek, some years ago, but now I am glad that I chose to use my time in other pursuits.   Like learning Esperanto.  There is a hilariously funny and free set of learning tools online for Esperanto, from the Learnu website in pick-your-favorite-language, to various national Esperanto groups which have put up lessons in their languages (Spain, France, etc).

Learning Esperanto is a great way to help others learn a language that can help the world become more a kinder place, and  fewer languages will go extinct, since everyone will learn the simple common language, and continue to learn other languages for cultural and friendship related reasons, but not out of pure economic necessity.

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 Greek and Turkish as I go back to working on it (and maybe the Hebrew, if I am asked to teach Biblical Hebrew again).

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

More soon,

and

        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! 

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.

#LanguageLearning for Building Vocabulary For A Kinder World Together

This page of vocabulary went faster, only in Turkish and French to work on my Esperanto more quickly, but filling in Spanish later will help me reinforce the learning.

Learning Esperanto is a great way to help others learn a language that can help the world become more a kinder place, and  fewer languages will go extinct, since everyone will learn the simple common language, and continue to learn other languages for cultural and friendship related reasons, but not out of pure economic necessity.

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 my notes in French and Turkish, and then the Greek as I go back to working on it (and maybe the Hebrew, if I am asked to teach Biblical Hebrew again).

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

More soon,

and

        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! 

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.

#LanguageLearning for Building Modified Descriptions of A Kinder World?

With only one type of adverb ending for every word in this language, language learning and community building around the world is faster and easier (the word in red cut off just at the extreme right is zarflar, or adverbs, in Turkish):

Every adverb ends  in the letter “e” in Esperanto.

The only thing an English speaker has to do is think “-ly” when you see “-e”.      Simple !  And a great way to help others learn a language that can help the world become more plural, and  fewer languages will go extinct, since everyone will learn the simple common language, and continue to learn other languages for cultural and friendship related reasons, but not out of pure economic necessity.

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 my notes in French and Turkish, and then the Greek as I go back to working on it (and maybe the Hebrew, if I am asked to teach Biblical Hebrew again).

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

More soon,

and

        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! 

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.

#LanguageLearning for Building Plural Types of Community?

And only one type of plural ending for every word in this language:

Every plural word ends (or semi-ends- in the letter “j” in Esperanto.

The only difference is that if the word is a plural of the direct object, it ends in “jn”.      Simple !  And a great way to help others learn a language that can help the world become more plural, and loose fewer native languages, since everyone will learn the simple common language, and continue to learn other languages for cultural and friendship related reasons, but not out of pure economic necessity.

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 my notes in French and Turkish, and then the Greek as I go back to working on it (and maybe the Hebrew, if I am asked to teach Biblical Hebrew again).

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

More soon,

and

        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! 

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.