{"id":360,"date":"2007-04-20T20:50:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/language-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T20:50:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T19:50:55","slug":"language-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Language maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been trying out yet another language learning and maintenance strategy. Instead of spending most of the day listening to online radio in one language or other, as I&#8217;ve been doing up to now, I&#8217;ve started listening to lots of lessons in the languages I&#8217;m focusing on at the moment (Welsh,  Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Spanish). At the same time I&#8217;m converting the lessons I have on tape to mp3 format. Once I&#8217;ve done that, I copy them to my mp3 player.<\/p>\n<p>I bought myself a new mp3 player for my birthday and am filling it with language lessons, podcasts and audiobooks. It can also display images, so I might try to make some virtual flash cards for it. Usually I don&#8217;t bother with flashcards as they&#8217;re quite cumbersome to carry around. This is no longer an issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been trying out yet another language learning and maintenance strategy. Instead of spending most of the day listening to online radio in one language or other, as I&#8217;ve been doing up to now, I&#8217;ve started listening to lots of lessons in the languages I&#8217;m focusing on at the moment (Welsh, Irish, Scottish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,10,13,23,56,64,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish","category-language","category-language-learning","category-manx","category-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}