scrubbedexpat142

Thanks Shard, just spent the last couple of hours doing Hungarian homework so now I've got a headache! I'll get back on the stats later!

Shard

Is that Hungarian language learning ?

Shard

Made a comment in the Corona/Vax UK thread (Maple Leaf) on this. One of the mods previously ticked me off for bringing UK politics into this thread. But be warned, it praises Piers B Morgan.

scrubbedexpat142

Well, that's the objective, the result however...

Shard

It's a very tough language from what I understand. What level are you at ?

scrubbedexpat142

Basic but advancing steadily.
Currently into "complex" sentences (teacher's term, not mine!)

Shard

Great ! Complex sentences are a standard grammatical term. There are so many online/app learning resources for language these days. Definitely a worthwhile endeavour if you are living in another country.

scrubbedexpat142

Very worthwhile! Struggled with DuoLingo a while back - eg "The kindergarten teacher is crawling on top of the bus followed by 6 yellow ants"! Fortunate now to have a great teacher, big push this year!

Shard

DuoLingo has it's place, good as a pre-learning tool, familiarisation with some vocab and sentence structure.

Jingsamichty

I find it fascinating that Hungarian and Finnish are both Turkic languages. Finnish has no relation at all to the Scandic languages. Is Hungarian completely different to, say Romanian and Bulgarian?

Shard

Completely different, I believe. I think Romanian is even one of the romance languages, not sure on Bulgarian.

Jingsamichty

The problem with Piers Morgan is that even when he's right, he's still a c***.


Did you see Matt Hancock the other day, refusing to answer the question about whether he now regretted having voted against provision of free meals to poor schoolkids? Absolutely shameless.

"Do you regret having voted against providing free meals to hungry schoolkids?"
"I'm very glad that we're now providing these meals."
"If you're very glad that you're now providing them, do you regret having voted against it?"
"I'm very glad that we're now providing these meals."

Repeat 6 times. Shameless.

Shard

I didn't see it. Very tired of Matt pink tie Hancock. Today's Piers cross examination was a similar format:

Why does Britain have the worst death rate in the world?
We're very proud of our vaccine roll out program...
Yes, but why do we have the worst death rate?
Every death is a tragedy, but we're very proud that Britain is leading the vaccine roll out...
Credit where credit is due on the vaccinations, but why does Briatin have the worst death rate, what did we do wrong?
It's too early to compare death rates...
Etc, etc.

It's obvious that the MP was given strict talking points, but PBM is right to press him on some accountability. Perhaps now that the figure is so bad, and so world-beating, there will be more pressure from other parts of the media. Their ought to be.

scrubbedexpat091

I thought there was a BC recovery benefit post from December but I am either blind or there isn't one...

Anyhow drivers in BC will be seeing small rebates from ICBC in the coming months, ICBC has apparently saved a small fortune on claims during the pandemic and NDP has decided to return some of the money to policy holders.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...nced-1.5897915

Jerseygirl

Is this the one: