http://www.ohthisandthat.com Yet another blog about this and that Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:55:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just dropping by my blog to say Hello! Shalom! I'm still studying Hebrew and can now say a few short sentences! I only study 20 or so minutes a day, but now that I have a Zune player to store my files on I plan to study much more now. ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/education/languages/shalom/ Wow, I haven't written in a while! Well, I'm still studying Hebrew. I learned the Aleph-Bet and I can now read Hebrew fairly well. But I still don't know what most of the words mean. LOL! However, I do know several Hebrew words now; I guess about a few hundred. So that's good. I ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/education/languages/my-hebrew-lessons-continue/ Ok, I've put Spanish and French on hold to learn Hebrew. I've been at it for about two weeks or so now. I can remember some words and phrases. It's fun. I watch Big Brother Israel to help me with Hebrew. It has a 24 hour Live Feed of the ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/education/languages/now-im-learning-hebrew/ There are so many ways to learn different languages. One good way is watching DVDs of my favorite movies and choosing Spanish or French as the audio and/or subtitles. Yesterday I watched part of Transformers and set the subtitles to Spanish and just read from there as I listened to the ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/education/languages/ive-started-learning-spanish-again/ It's Wednesday again and that means it's time for more Pogo badges! I've been playing for badges a lot lately. I don't always do the badges that Pogo assigns for the week, but I've been doing the personal badges every week. The badges that Pogo selected this week are Jewel Juggler ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/online_games/more-pogo-badges-08-27-2008/ I really need to start studying French and Spanish again. Last year I started studying both languages about 30 minutes each per day and I was really learning a lot. I can still remember a lot of the words and phrases I learned from last year. I love culture and languages, and ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/education/languages/learning-french-and-spanish/ I have a major pet peeve, and that's when I sign up to a new forum, confirm my membership by email and then get a message stating that I have to wait to be approved by an administrator or moderator. Ugh! I would really love it if they would let me know that before ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/general/forum-owners-let-me-know-if-i-have-to-be-approved/ Ryan Lochte is my new celebrity boyfriend so I thought I'd post this interview with him. I especially like the part where Ryan and Michael Phelps do the "Jeah" shout outs! LOL! I think that's from Young Jeezy. I'm not a fan of that type of rap music, but I have to ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/celebrities/cute-ryan-lochte-interview-jeah/ I like Michael Phelps and hope he wins his 8th gold medal in these 2008 Summer Olympics. But I really would love it if the press gave more props to other athletes like Ryan Lochte and Aaron Peirsol. I mean, the media hype of Michael Phelps is so annoying. Michael Phelps ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/sports/the-media-and-favoritism-at-the-2008-summer-olympics/ I just saw the recent photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie with their new twins and their other children; Maddox, Zahara, Pax and Shiloh. And man are those four kids growing fast. I remember when all four of them were just babies; barely older than their new twin siblings Knox ... http://www.ohthisandthat.com/celebrities/the-jolie-pitt-kids-are-growing-up-so-fast/