This year’s economics Nobel?
September 28th, 2005
Matthew Kahn posts early with his guesses. The prize will be announced on October 10. As to this year’s Knobel prize…
Googling your way to minimal language proficiency
September 28th, 2005
I like this idea from Bill Poser on Language Log. “Using Google in another language is a fun way to try out a language you don’t know real well. It’s easy to switch to a language you do know well if you get stuck and it isn’t all that complicated.”
I think I’ll start with some language that uses our Latin alphabet, but in time I’d like to branch out. How about a different language a week?