The Little Book of Lost Words

The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting | Joe Gillard

I just told my husband I was going to stop buying so many dang books and @wanderinglynn posted about this. I have no willpower.

wanderinglynn Happens to me all the time. Blame it on Litsy! 😂 5y

BookwormM I am guessing you are Spanish I am trying to learn through Duolingo but would like some children‘s books recommendations that would help me learn do you have any ideas? 5y

Sace @BookwormM actually a high school Spanish teacher, but lately I've been putting all my devices in Spanish so I get even more practice. Let me think of some books. I usually tell people to find Spanish translations of books they already know. My students like Huevos verdes con jamón 🤣

Huevos Verdes Con Jamon = Green Eggs and Ham

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BookwormM Thanks any recommendations would be great. I get particularly confused with when to use al a la etc 5y

Sace a+ el= al (so if the word following a is el, make it al) hope that helps 😊 5y

Sace @wanderinglynn one of these days I'm going to be able to participate on Litsy AND resist temptation. The only time I can stick to a book diet is when I'm not on Litsy...but I miss it when I'm not here. 5y

wanderinglynn Eh. Of all the temptations to give into in this world, buying books is a fairly mundane one. My argument is no one ever died from buying another book. 😉 Of course, I am also an enabler so maybe you shouldn‘t listen to me. 😂 5y

wanderinglynn @BookwormM I‘ve been trying to learn French & Spanish forever. My problem is finding someone(s) to practice with. We should start a Litten Language Group. Have an offline group (like through Google Hangouts or FaceTime or something similar) for those of us trying to learn & practice foreign languages. 💡❓ 5y

Sace @wanderinglynn 😂 true. Could a house collapse under the weight of books though? 5y

Sace @wanderinglynn that's a fabulous idea! I've always wanted to learn French and I'm always stopping and starting my German brush up. I've found Duolingo more useful with German. I get very frustrated with it for French. 5y

wanderinglynn I use Duolingo for French practice, but I‘ve had lots of in-person instruction. But trying to learn a language, for me Italian or German, from scratch on Duolingo is hard. Especially for pronunciation and some grammar stuff as I don‘t think they do a particularly good job explaining. 5y

Sace @wanderinglynn My thoughts exactly! I had two years of German so DuoLingo is fine. Turkish and French have been harder. 5y

AlaSkaat HelloTalk has been useful to me in learning languages. You meet people that are fluent in Spanish/French etc. And you exchange your languages. It can come in useful when you need a language partner. There are many people learning through it. 5y

Sace @AlaSkaat Ooo. I'll look into that! 5y

AlaSkaat I've also recently started learning French. I learned the basics and what has helped me to learn more is to write stories in that language.(i will use google translator and other sources to help) I will write the same sentence many different ways(and I guess bcs we are readers) it gets stuck on my memory. Even if only a few words. And then rereading it, I already know what it means so. 5y

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