Tevai, on an iPhone you hold your finger on a vowel and it brings up the accented choices. You can also add different keyboards under keyboard settings and then toggle between them using the world icon below the keyboard.
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Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh! Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you (plural)! Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh! St. Patrick’s Day blessings to you (plural)! Forty-two years ago, our middle daughter was born in Provo, Utah. We didn’t have a car so our home teacher drove us to the hospital at about 2 AM and she came fast. There’s so much I could say but each daughter has been a
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The old church men of my youth were convinced that the Second Coming would be in or around the year 2000. They would say, “keep your eyes on the Middle East.” Also, get your years supply, etc. Well, that came and went, didn’t it?! Does anyone remember the urban Mormon myths about “walking back to Missouri,” the return of the “Lost” 10 Tribes from the North countries, the two prop
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“Get Together” by The Youngbloods, after reading some fine prose about our Baby Boomer generation by Don Bagley. https://youtu.be/UTU76Hyn4o0 It was re-released by RCA in September 1969 and reached number 5. I was 13-years-old then and just starting to pull away from TSSC and authoritarian influences between 8-9th grade. At the time, I was quite taken by the “hippie” lifestyle and
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annabelle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But I am not going to let him have my portion. I > went through hell with him. I plan to make a fund > just for the grandchildren. It will be small but > none of it will go into the TBM Ex’s hands. That is an excellent plan. I hope it works out for you.
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Tyson Dunn Wrote: ----------------------------------------Y--------------- > I can manage Italian and Spanish, but they > interfere with each other a lot. I could probably > conjure up reasonable Dutch with a week to get > used to speaking it again. I used all three of > those languages for travel and had specific goals > in mind when I was taking them. I studied Itali
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cl2notloggedin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just found it interesting that sign language I > believe is one of those languages you are speaking > of. I miss it. It was such a huge part of my > young life. I was on an accreditation team several years ago at Roy High and got to observe an ASL class. I was quite impressed by the level of st
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wouldn't use the phrase "gift of tongues" for > anything about legitimate languages. In religion, > is it simply making up nonsense goo goo sounds. > The only part of the brain they are activating is > the BS center. LOL, you got that right, dagny.
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From my post edited for Facebook consumption (And, Brother, did it need some editing!!!), I added a final recommendation: Before retirement from teaching, I was often asked what was the best app for learning a language. If I were asked that today, I would say Memrise without hesitation. I would also recommend an initial exposure to the target language through a TPRS course (teaching proficienc
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Jacko Mo Mo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I haven't watched anything so anti-climatic and > hollow as when Gordon B. Hinkley delivered a > special 9/11 speech. Everybody was looking for > answers and reassurance, he had none. I walked > out of the chapel thinking he no more has any > special insight than the local dog catcher. And t
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https://resources.unbabel.com/blog/brain-language-learning I got a failing grade in high school German and was dropped right out of the course. As a senior, I retook Spanish One and barely passed the second semester. What I never imagined was that in my twenties I would become a successful linguist in four additional languages. A TBM would say that it was the gift of tongues. The truth is t
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Today DW turned 66 years old and she’s continuing to improve. Her blood ox is normal, her appetite is back, her chronic depression seems to be lifting, and her nausea is mostly gone, with the help of her new prescription (zofran). I can’t sing the praises enough of the Intermountain Layton Hospital. What a class act her doctors and care givers were. I’m grateful that they gave DW such f
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The concerning factors were her low oxygen reading, our age (65), and a serious comorbidity for DW.
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Her ox reading was in the 80s. I took her to the ER just after noon on Saturday and she formally tested positive for COVID. They put her on oxygen and an IV right away. They admitted her 7 hours later and began treatment with the antiviral Remdesivir and steroid dexamethasone. Her X-ray showed a spot with opacity in the lower left lobe of her lungs, which may indicate acute mild infection o
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Soy católico como mis padres, mis abuelos etc. (I’m Catholic like my parents, my grandparents, and so on). I’m really embarrassed looking back. Who did we think we were? A bunch of clueless 19 and 20-year-old barely-adult visitors in a foreign country, trying to convince folks to abandon their common beliefs, traditions, oftentimes families, and society and embrace a North American churc
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Thank you for the link to Angel from Montgomery > Sugaree. Sadly, I missed out on a TTB concert at Red Butte Garden in SLC in 2013. I see they’ll be performing at Red Rocks Amphitheater on July 29 & 30. I should definitely go!
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Wow! I’m really intrigued. I’m so happy it’s available on Prime. Cuz X
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Prime Video Dead Like Me Undone Humans Netflix The OA Travelers Better Than Us (No longer available on Netflix)
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From CNN’s “5 things” on 12/30/2021: “I’ve reached a point in my life this past year where I realized just how vital the idea and essence of time is; who and what gets my time these days. We don’t get time back, so in 2022 and beyond, the people, the projects, the energy, the everything. Life. It gets my time and gets me out of bed, then I’ll go to sleep knowing it was worth it a
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Here’s the alternate life plan that could have been: perpetual inactivity, no callings, no tithing, and no mission, as I seriously contemplated entering the military right out of high school in lieu of junior college. Eventually, I did military service between college and a teaching career, with my mission language experience actually laying the groundwork for my occupational choices. Well,
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I don’t think it was standard practice, but my first senior comp found a reason for us to go into “la capital” of Buenos Aires on a P-Day, which was actually part of the Bs As North Mission. Right or wrong, we had a great time sightseeing; although we shared an apartment with the mission office team (they had to know, right?), we didn’t get any flack for doing so. One of our lucky grou
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As it was, missionaries in downtown MDP liked to do summertime “exposiciones” (exhibits) with posters, brochures, and BOMs beachside. I was in the port area to the south so I never got to partake. I think seeing all of the lovely beach goers would have done me in for sure. Perhaps they knew, Elder X couldn’t handle Mar Del Plata Central so I got “el puerto” (the port) instead.
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I heard rumors, probably just wishful thinking, of a Mar Del Plata surf club sometime in the distant past of my last area in Argentina. Wouldn’t that have been nice? When my parents did a senior mission in the West Indies, I think that they, the seniors, were allowed to go swimming. Got to keep those older missionaries in shape, you know? But what about the young elders and LMs? Dear sist
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I was so Mormon that I thought my patriarchal blessing was inspired. I thought that god actually called me through a prophet to serve a mission to Argentina. I thought that god wanted me to get married and start a family ASAP, as a newly returned missionary, only a sophomore in college. Here’s something that haunts me. While on a family vacation in 1972, I attended a non-LDS church service i
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Here are some pictures from Senator Reid’s life from the New York Post: https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/12/29/former-senate-majority-leader-harry-reids-life-in-photos/amp/
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Well written. Well done. Cuz X
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