The semester is almost over (still one exam to go) and I’ve got the whole of March at my disposal, so I guess I’ll finally manage to catch up with my reading “assignments” and get to do some more serious studying. I’m venturing into Vietnamese, but mainly because I got my hands upon a textbook in French, meaning I can learn stuff like “La pluie ne vaudra pas mieux car la route sera glissante et très dangereuse” in both languages simultaneously (though I have to admit that half the time I have no clue what’s going on whatsoever).

French:
Debout le Morts par(?) Fred Vargas
Réflexions sur le langage par Noam Chomsky
Hominescence par Michel Serres
Les utopies posthumaines par Rémi Sussan
and a few issues of Écoute

Spanish:
El Reino des Dragón de Oro por Isabel Allende
La Sombra del Viento por Carlos Ruiz Zafón
plus several issues of Ecos

Chinese/Japanese:
Quite a few DVDs in each language and a couple of textbooks to work with. Plus tons of ANKI flashcards (>10000 for Chinese alone).

Vietnamese:

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/uniLesson1/Lesson1_main.htm

Le Vietnamien sans peine (Assimil)

In addition, I got a huge stack of photography-related books from the library to use as reference and inspiration for my own photographic attempts that will be published over at my other blog, Dawn Lotus .
Obviously, I’m so pissed about my (prospective) grades that I want to forget about clocked sequential systems, torque and linear algebra for a while.

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