{"id":22402,"date":"2023-01-18T20:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22402"},"modified":"2023-01-18T20:27:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:27:40","slug":"back-to-studying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22402","title":{"rendered":"Back to Studying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>After my hiatus from Babbel, there were over 900 French words and phrases in my to-be-reviewed box. Yeesh, that was daunting! It&#8217;s down to about 600 now.<\/li><li>It&#8217;s easy to do Babbel&#8217;s little lessons and feel like I&#8217;ve accomplished something, but I know that it&#8217;s not enough. I know that without more reinforcement I won&#8217;t remember what I&#8217;ve learned. And I know that I&#8217;ll never learn to speak the language unless I start actively using it more. So I&#8217;ve been practicing. You may now occasionally hear me talking to myself in French. Do I sound more or less crazy talking to myself in French than I do when I talk to myself in English? I don&#8217;t know. You tell me. For bonus points, say it in French. \ud83d\ude09<\/li><li>Occasionally little bits of French come out during conversations with family members. Livia says it&#8217;s infuriating because she doesn&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m saying. D\u00e9sol\u00e9e!<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve been watching<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Call_My_Agent!\">Call My Agent!<\/a> <\/em>on Netflix. I leave the English subtitles on, but I try to pay attention to the spoken French.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my hiatus from Babbel, there were over 900 French words and phrases in my to-be-reviewed box. Yeesh, that was daunting! It&#8217;s down to about 600 now. It&#8217;s easy to do Babbel&#8217;s little lessons and feel like I&#8217;ve accomplished something, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,677],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22402"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22416,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions\/22416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}