Practising IPA Like

Despite knowing the journey… and where it leads… I embrace it… and I welcome every moment of it.

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

So first, we need to make sure that they understand what a question is. Okay, the nature of a request for information along with a response. Then, we need to clarify the difference between a specific “you” and a collective “you”, because we don’t want to know why Joe Alien is here, we want to know why they all landed.  And purpose requires an understanding of intent. We need to find out: do they make conscious choices? Or is their motivation so instinctive that they don’t understand a “why” question at all? And, and biggest of all, we need to have enough vocabulary with them that we understand their answer.

CONCEPT ART FOR THE FILM ARRIVAL 

by Peter Konig

Endless list of favourite films: Arrival (2016).

If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?

Maybe I’d say what I felt more often. I-I don’t know.

FILMS WATCHED IN 2018→ Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve. So, Hannah… This is where your story begins. The day they departed. Despite knowing the journey… and where it leads… I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.

Memory is a strange thing. It doesn’t work like I thought it did. We are so bound by time, by its order… But now I’m not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings.

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

Indo-european languages

happiness is listening to a song in your target language and understanding more and more words over time