Ask HN: What are you currently learning in your spare time?

Post by Hockenbrizzle » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 10:31 PM UTC

shifte wrote: post #7

I'm learning German. I've never learnt a non-machine language before and having just moved to Berlin I thought I'd try not being that jerk foreigner that only speaks english, even after living here for 2 years. So far it's been quite fun. Last week I finally cracked the level where I understood a conversation of a Couple passing me on the street.

Post by hanniabu » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 3:38 AM UTC

AkshayD08 wrote: post #33

Shell scripting. I did not realize how powerful it is until I only started with it.

Post by studentrob » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 5:39 AM UTC

contingencies wrote: post #39

Nice thread. Gotta say, listing all this makes me feel a hell of a lot less lazy! (In southwest China...) 1. Classical Chinese, by translating old texts on Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Manshu 2. Just brushed up on technical drawing and woodworking to get new office furniture built. 3. Fatherhood. 4. Event planning. I'm trying to set up a community event to take ~40 party people down to a nea…

Post by arisAlexis » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 9:00 AM UTC

Post by modafinil » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 11:58 AM UTC