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Re: How to keep your brain from rotting in the summer?
Posted By: Fuzzpilz, on host 217.4.130.86
Date: Friday, June 22, 2001, at 15:29:06
In Reply To: How to keep your brain from rotting in the summer? posted by rivenwanderer on Friday, June 22, 2001, at 11:12:38:

> Well, school's out now for the summer. A week and a half of no school, and I'm bored already. I'm even starting to get tired of computers {a very strange thing indeed}! It'd be nice if I had a way to keep from forgetting everyhting I learned in school last year. I can almost feel my brain leaking out of my head through my ears... Heeeelllpp....meeeee....
>
Write. An elegic distichon is always nice, though it doesn't work as well in English as it does in Latin, Greek and German (I don't know about other languages). Read, favourably in languages you are learning in school, which is also a much better way of learning the language. Apart from vacations, I have spent my whole life in Germany with German parents and German friends and German relatives and so on, yet I do think that my English isn't that bad. Most people who have had English in school for longer than I did almost don't know anything. I suppose it's because the lessons start too easily and stay down at the basics for years and years, and at the end everyone is suddenly supposed to be able to read English. I started out with trying to read English books (and texts in computer games), and I think I now am halfway able to use that language. I suggest you do the same with whatever languages you are learning or interested to learn. Get a dictionary, a few books you've been recommended, and start. Try to use the dictionary as little as possible, or you'll never be able to find out the meaning of words from context.
About the tired-of-computers thing: what do you usually do with yours? There's really a lot of things you might try instead.

> ~*~
> riv"slowlygoingcrazy"enwanderer

Fuzz"Don't worry."pilz

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