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[@zenonsmietana9383]

Zapraszamy do Polski!

[@englishwithlindsay-network415]

Hey, that's so funny - I'm from Vancouver, and I'm heading to Palm Springs next week! (Regarding weather, I think I'm going in the right direction!) I agree, I'm the same with Spanish and Chinese - I only know how to say the things that are related to what I was doing while using those languages. I never learned the formal form "usted" in Spanish, because I learned to speak it with my friends.

[@Thelinguist]

+Learn English with Lindsay - Network in English Enjoy Palm Springs

[@englishwithlindsay-network415]

:D

[@Sniper9Factory]

If you ever come to brazil ,please let us know!

[@Thelinguist]

+Sniper9Factory I will come and will let you know.

[@scotta8612]

Definitely a rainy day here in Vancouver. Found your videos recently and I signed up for Lingq. Really going to work on learning as many words a day as I can. Great videos.

[@Thelinguist]

+scott appleton Go for it.

[@converter7]

Shwmae (Hello) Steve, great to hear your coming to my home nation of Wales. Do you know where in the country your going. Cardiff,s a great city but you should travel up north if you can. hope you all have fun. Hwyl fawr (good bye).

[@Thelinguist]

+Dafydd ap Ffranc We are staying at a place called the Browns Hotel in Laugharne in South Wales and will travel north from there on day trips. Any advice?

[@converter7]

+Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve That's great, Laugharne was the home of Dylan Thomas the most famous Welsh poet to write in the English language. You should see the Boathouse there where he lived. I would suggest traveling north, first to the university town of Aberystwyth, you will find many polyglots there. Especially in the Coopers Arms pub at the foot of the hill from the university on the road leading to the town centre. Most of them work in the university or are students. Scholars pub near by is also good for that. You could check out some local productions at the theaters while their. They are usually bilingual in Welsh and English. Their is Arad Goch in the town and the Arts Centre on the university campus. Going up north again, you can travel through Snowdonia (Eryri) National Park, the Welsh Highlands. It is home to Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa in Welsh) the tallest mountain in southern Britain (Wales and England). You can climb up it or get a narrow gauge train to the summit. Further north and you will reach the north Wales coast. I would recommend visiting Caernarfon. A great history connected to the Welsh legends of Macsen Wledig (Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus) who had dreams of a arriving in a beautiful land and finding a castle and inside the castle was a princess who he fell in love with the moment he lay his eyes on her in his dream. Convinced the dream was real he set his men to scour his empire to find this castle and bring him this princess. After years of searching they found the princess in Caernarfon Castle and he married her. The current castle has a lot of history but it is not the ancient castle of the 4th century. The present one was built by King Edward I of England when he was at war with King Llywelyn II of Wales. He conquered Wales and built a series of castles to keep the natives down. To this day Wales has more castles per square mile then any other country in the world. The castle is worth visiting for it's aesthetic appeal alone. It was here that Edward I's son was born and was intended to be a royal court for the English Principality of Wales but that never happened. It was also here that Queen Elizabeth II crowned her son Charles as Prince of Wales. The locals are always a good source of local knowledge and will usually be more then happy to talk to you. Most of them will speak Welsh as a first language but everyone can speak English. It will be a good chance to talk about language as well as this is something everyone talks about (if you don't mind hearing about language politics, which is also an important subject to people). You could even pick up some of the language from them. I can't believe your coming to Wales. I have been following you for a few years now on here. I wish I could have met you there. Unfortunately I'm not home at the moment. I'm in southern Italy at the moment and won't be back home until the summer. Hope you enjoy your stay in Wales or as it's called in Welsh, Cymru (pronounced like Kum-ree). In Welsh, to say good bye we say hwyl (pronounced like hoy-ul) which literally means have fun. So hwyl and have fun.

[@Thelinguist]

That all sounds great and I will try to follow your advice. Really looking forward. Thanks. Steve

[@spanishconconsciencia23]

Hi Steve what Will be yr next language to learn?It's amazing yr enthousiasm and contagious as well. Thanks for yr help with these videos Rgds

[@Thelinguist]

+bielka mua Don't know yet. Tempted by Arabic and Turkish.

[@tommytruetravel9771]

Congratulations on the Polish! An Arabic challenge would be great. Just like you got more of a nuanced local perspective on the Ukrainian crisis with Ukrainian and Russian, Arabic could over 3 months and more bring you closer to an understanding of the plenty of conflicts and discussions having to do with the Arabic sphere and its associated religion. Motivations being equal, Arabic rather than Turkish, because it is the "core language" of that sphere. Much like Chinese vs. Japanese, Korean. With the Arabic vocabulary in your pocket, afterwards the cultural satellites Turkish, Urdu, Persian etc will all be more of a low hanging fruit. Also the daily videos during the original Korean challenge were something really motivating, atmospheric and shareable. It felt like an official challenge together with everyone. The Ukrainian and Polish challenges with the infrequent videos I felt were more like your own seperate challenges apart from the community, that you were reporting about. Whatever the language will be, I hope there's time for a 5 minute daily videolog again.

[@张梓涵-i5d]

I'm your fans, I also live in Vancouver! I really wanna meeting you in Vancouver, How could I met you?😁😁😁

[@dazza254]

Watching you learn Arabic would be hugely entertaining and interesting

[@adamclark1972uk]

When are we going to get to see your wife? We know so much about her but have never seen her.

[@coacheye]

Pretty long, expensive trip over the holidays. Farewell. Dane, Southern California

[@Soulology8]

Hi guys! Anyone know of a decent device I can buy and use for reading Ebooks in foreign languages. I study French and Spanish. I'm thinking along the lines of kindles, iPads etc. Any suggestions? :)

[@XxBlazzinSwaggXx]

Does your job have to do with languages? If so may I know what it is, I'm still looking for career options.

[@Thelinguist]

+The_360_Waver Not really, but languages were useful. I was mostly in the international lumber business.

[@highchamp1]

T&P books est.2005. 36 languages 3000 / 5000 / 7000 / 9000 words divided into topics like numbers, human body and so on. Available from Amazon in kindle or paperback. I have Japanese 5000 and 9000 word paperbacks and a 9000 word kindle version. What do you think?

[@beni6619]

Will you be learning Hungarian?

[@profactualman3658]

id love to see you improve your italian, you havent got many videos on that yet! :)

[@Thelinguist]

+Profactualman I would love to get back to Italian and improve it. There is just too much to do!