{"id":64,"date":"2006-05-19T18:04:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/19\/tempus-fugit\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T18:04:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T17:04:48","slug":"tempus-fugit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Tempus fugit"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finding time to study languages, and do all the other things I enjoy doing (including writing this blog), is quite tricky. Fortunately, because I work at home most of the time, I have some flexibility in when I start and finish my work, and I can take breaks to practice my juggling, etc without disturbing colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>I usually learn a bit more Manx while making toast in the morning &#8211; the lessons in the course I&#8217;m currently following are all quite short so this works out well.<\/p>\n<p>While eating meals I tend to read serious tomes &#8211; at the moment that&#8217;s <em>An Introduction to Language and Linguistics<\/em>, by Ralph W. Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton, which is very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>While working I listen to online radio in various languages (currently Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh). I don&#8217;t actually listen to it closely all the time, but having it playing in the background helps me to absorb new vocabulary and grammar, and to reinforce what I already know of these languages.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, I study Russian and Irish, practice the tin whistle, and\/or learn some more Gaelic songs. When the weather&#8217;s fine, I spend the evenings, and weekends, blading,  playing hockey and just hanging out with my friends.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I manage to keep on up-dating and improving Omniglot, and replying to all the correspondence the site generates as well. Maybe one day I&#8217;ll be able to give up the day job and concentrate on Omniglot. Now that would be wonderful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. Finding time to study languages, and do all the other things I enjoy doing (including writing this blog), is quite tricky. Fortunately, because I work at home most of the time, I have some flexibility in when I start and finish my work, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}