330 dtg (30 things to do twice)
Flicking through a dictionary the other day (what fun!) reminded me that in order to learn all of the words a native speaker would be expected to know, you must constantly force yourself to experience new activities. Furthermore, to make sure you don't hear the words once and then forget them, it wouldn't be a bad idea to repeat each activity.
Thus, I'd like to enlist your help in compiling a list: 30 things to do twice.
Any activity can be nominated to the list, provided you don't need to break any laws (at least the ones that matter anyway) in order to do it, and provided it is not too expensive. The reason I would like to ask for your help is that the final result will be a lot more interesting if many people share their perspective.
Once compiled, I will publish the list in a single blog entry (to save you having to read through all the comments), and would invite all the other language learners out there to try their hand at as many of them as possible.
I've thought of five to get the ball rolling ...
1. Go to a local soccer (football) match
2. Attempt horseback riding
3. Host a tea-drinking ceremony
4. Visit a naval museum
5. Attend a wedding service
Any thoughts?
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6. Haggle for something at a local market
7. Order and eat a customary dish
8. Take traditional dance classes
9. Learn a traditional song
come up with a good story to tell me... yeah you know what I'm talking about. :)
10. Go to a supermarket with a shopping list of at least 10 items
11. Visit the post office
12. Purchase something from a travel agent
13. Get into a brawl at the local watering hole
14. Watch a locally produced film
15. Go to a public auction
16. Get a garment tailored
17. Get a haircut
18. Become attached to a local lady
19. Have a meal/drink at the neighbours' place
20. Become a member of the library
21. Visit an art gallery
22. Join a local online community
23. Join the gym
24. Travel to the "interior" of the country (a.k.a. "butt-fuck-nowhere") on a weekend trip with NO reservations of any kind whatsoever (AH! Take pictures and share stories)
25. write postcards to family members and friends back home
26. all for take in food (whatever you feel like)
27. Join a Wine Club or a Food Tasting Workshop
28. Go from the first train station of your city to the last one (in the same city, pelase)
30. Organize a dinner at your place for 3 friends and ask them to bring 1 unknown friend each
31. Go on a blind date
32. get a pair of shiny piercings in your testicles (I do not know if you will do this twice, but I am sure you will learn some interesting ways of expressing yourself both in the language you are trying to learn AND in your own... especially in your own &*%#%@$!!!).
33. Get completely lost in the poorest district in town
34. Have a conversation with a cab driver in his native tongue
35. Smoke the cheapest, nastiest local cigarettes.
36. Drink the cheapest, nastiest local alcohol
37. Eat the cheapest, nastiest local food.
join a cooking class
sell a local identity australian wine
learn how to cook a local dish so that you can cook it in Australia
go to the opera
buy a present for your mother
visit a temple
learn a song to teach your father
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