I did pronunciation, vocab, grammar, reading, and writing for level 1, unit 1, lesson 1 on Rosetta Stone Italian. These lessons covered definite and indefinite articles, basic verbs like "to eat" and "to drink", words for woman/man/children, and hello/goodbye.
Articles:
There was an interesting article in the LA Times about digital payments at Starbucks. Recently, the chain released a Starbucks app, which allows customers to pay via phone. In the near future, customers might not even have to take their phones out to pay. Instead, GPS with detect that their phone is in the store and a barista will verify it at the register. It seems that the NFC chips that are in Android phones would play a big part in this development.
Philosophy:
I read about logic, which is about trying to conform one's thoughts to the Law of Identity. For this to work, the thought must be free of contradiction. Logic allows people to gauge what is true and false and what is good or bad. It provides a baseline for making these kinds of judgement.
Internships:
I read about PDF Create 8 on nuance.com. It allows users to create PDFs at a much faster rate than most other software.
To-Do:
- Wake-up: 8:00 am
- Shower (1/2 hour)
- Done
- Italian Discussion (1 and 1/2 hours)
- We went over definite and indefinite articles. Indefinite articles are pretty straight forward but definite articles get complicated. Different ones are used depending on if the word is masculine or feminine and singular or plural.
- Italian Rosetta Stone (1 hour)
- Done
- Lunch (1/2 hour)
- Done
- Read ahead for Italian (1/2 hour)
- Done
- Phonetics (1 and 1/2 hours)
- We started on transcription today. There are a few different kinds of transcription, one (the most common) is citation style, which is a transcription of the kind of speech that is careful and slowed down. This is the kind of speech a person uses when they are explaining that "___ means ___" or if they are asked to repeat a word of phrase. Because of this, it's much easier to handle and analyze. The other kind of transcription is connected speech. This is natural speech without hesitation or over-enunciation. This is a better example of how speech is actually used but unfortunately is also very difficult to study and handle because the speech isn't as clear and information is lost as more and more time passes.
- Review Phonetics notes (1/2 hour)
- Done
- Read ahead for Phonetics (2 hours)
- Done
- Review vocab for Italian quiz tomorrow (1 hour)
- Done. 1 and 1/2 hours
- Phonetics homework (1 hour)
- 2 hours
- Read ahead for Muir Writing (1 hour)
- Done. 2 hours
- Dinner (1 and 1/2 hours)
- Done
- LINGUA meeting (2 hours)
- About four or five grad students presented research that they are working on that range from computational psycholinguistics and how people process and store language to bilingual speakers of English and Spanish and how they process the different phonemes and allophones of each language. The grad students need research assistants and the jobs aren't paid but people get college credit.
- Read about two MacArthur fellowships (1/2 hour)
- I read about Natalia Almada, who is a documentary filmmaker. She has dual citizenship in Mexico and the US and spent a great amount of time in both countries. She doesn't make typical documentaries, with a lot of interviews and dialogue. Rather, her films rely mostly on the visual. I think that's really interesting.
- News (15 minutes)
- Done
- ebook (1 hour)
- Didn't get to this today
- Sleep: 1:00 am
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