Learning Bulgarian - tips and resources

Some useful website for bulgarian learners and people interested in bulgarian culture (different perspectives) 

The blogger Karoline (Karolinka): 
http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2013/06/06/10-things-i-already-know-that-ill-miss/#comments

The omniglot colletion of audio recordings: 
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/bulgarian.php 

Various economics resources

Various economics resources

Observatory of Economic Complexity (MIT edu)
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/explore/tree_map/hs/import/rus/show/all/2012/

Piera - Bringing together experts from industry and academia to discuss some of the biggest issues facing our economy today.
http://www.pieria.co.uk/

Simon Wren-Lewis Professor of Economics - University of Oxford
http://www.pieria.co.uk/experts/Simon_Wren-Lewis

Manchester - Prof Diane Coyle Professor of Economics - University of Manchester, OBE
Personal Details, Research, Publications, Teaching
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Diane.coyle/personaldetails

Repec - Daria Taglioni - World Bank, Econimist
https://ideas.repec.org/e/pta176.html

French for beginners, resources

--09/01/2016

found some answers to a phrase i couldnt translate with a dictionary here on Reddit, i am not even sure what that does but one discussion was quite useful for me 

https://m.reddit.com/r/French

Also started to use a dictionary, i saw it had a few copies in the local library - Collins Robert Dictionary French, complete and unabridged 2200+ pages, also got a copy for home of its smaller edition  1300+ pages

---17/11/2015 I got an update about Pascale Eyre, she also teaches at Warwick University Language Center, which is a good reference for her skills and she has a regular practice. I am taking a class that she teaches, Lower Intermediate French class, once a week for 9 weeks a 2 hours. I didn't get to do her 1:1 private classes or the group which she runs once a week at her home, also intermediate level.

I wanted to share this resource;

• http://apprendre.tv5monde.com/fr/apprendre-francais/ 

it looks amazing!

I also started using the Conjugator! on the LeFigaro website, has a lot of useful things to do with verbs and their forms.

• http://leconjugueur.lefigaro.fr/ukindex.php

Similar resource is at

• http://french.about.com/this one is getting better and better, the main author seems really good. 

I need to do more writing and indepedant work outside class, doing my writing excercises and looking up words and concepts and figuring out stuff. I am lacking some verbs and basic structures to help me put thoughts into words.

---Today 29/09/2015 i enquired about French practice and modes of teaching with Pascale Eyre. His home in Royal Leamington Spa had a poster advertising classes and i visited his website http://www.peyre.co.uk. It looks like the domain has expired as it takes me here http://66.147.244.109/~mathsapp/PascaleEyre/index.html

Let'see when the reply comes!

I also had a look at the pages of Languages Cafe, World@Warwick

They offer free language classes here

https://www.warwicksu.com/worldatwarwick/language/groups/

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The French section in this page is significant, i used it several times and the quality of materials is comparatively high

http://french.about.com/od/verb_conjugations/a/aider.htm

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Today 9/Feb/2015 I found this video shared on the Languages@Warwick Wesbite -

Comprehensible Input | Stephen Krashen  (3mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjAHPl1ACmQ 
How to learn languages


I am 6 weeks into my 2h-a-week french course, and I came across this guy online

searching on ebookee.org - i found this 

French For Beginners Podcast
Louis | 1.01 GB | MP3 | 2008
Read more at http://ebookee.org/French-For-Beginners-Podcast_285882.html#P7TDQk1i6oUs6YSj.99

The link however is broken, but that looks like a serious collection by one website, which intrigued me. http://www.learnfrenchbypodcast.com/beginner.php is the original address and this guy Louis is the author.

Also i find the Alexa french lessons very good: her profile and background make these very high quality material. https://www.youtube.com/user/learnfrenchwithalexa 

I also found a great author on about.com - Laura Lawless. Her profile is here: http://french.about.com/bio/Laura-K-Lawless-3906.htm and apparently she is a French fanatic and author of three books for french. Her French virtual lessons are here http://www.lawlessfrench.com/

Review - Car Service and Annual MOT at Halfords

The price was 99£ down from 135
The MOT only was 35£ down from 50+£ (obviously an offer to get you)
The catch was a MOT retest fee - upon a registered FAIL on the MOT tests, the car owner has the following option

• get a quote for the repairs necessary to pass the MOT from Halfords itself, leave the car with Halfords and pay Halfords the repairs only. No retest fee. Then they repair it and give you a free retest, on the points where you have had a FAIL registered, and issue you with your MOT certificate for the next 12 months. (*catch - see below*)
• Tell Halfords that you will go to another car garage to get your car serviced, based on the registered MOT FAIL points, go do this within 10 days, come back to Halfords - who are the testing authority who issued the MOT FAIL certificate, pay a re-test fee of half the price of the MOT (this time retest fee is 17.5£ (half of initial 35£)), if they are satisfied with the repairs carried out by others - fine Halfords issue you a MOT certificate for the next 12 months. Cost of MOT 35£ (initial Halfords fee) + 17.5£ (Halfords re-test fee) = 52.5£ (Total)

Halfords Coventry - Foleshill road

Dishwasher not working - beginners problems - salt and rinse aid

Ever run your dishwasher for as long as the salt and the rinse aid runs out? Run it until Flashy blinky lights come up, and you continue to use it (because it works)?

I have and today it stopped working! It simply would not start (or at least i can't find a way to make it do a normal wash cycle) It is a BOSCH dishwasher and the Refill Salt Red Light is On and Steady (not blinking). Also it displays the digit 4 on the display where the remaining time is usually shown.

I found this video useful: Bosch - How to refill salt and rinse aid on my Bosch dishwasher.
Brilliant and simply demonstrated (i don't imagine starting to look for the appliance manual, i have not got a clue).

http://youtu.be/TizY3IeAoao - video with instructions showing what you need (to buy) and how to refill salt and rinse aid (also explains what rinse aid is - and what to do when you spill some salt by mistake inside the appliance, handy!)

I am off to the shops to get some Salt...... fingers crossed!

Bike Maintenance - using a instant temporary sealant to fix a puncture

Why you are here:

I want to share my mistakes and let you learn from them. Let you tap on my experience

 Bike Maintenance - using a instant temporary sealant to fix a puncture

 Tried to seal a puncture on my inner tube by using a sealant foam/spray from a can i bought on the high street retaiers (one of the 1 pound shops). The idea is simple, you get a small pressurized can with an adapter; then you attach the adapater to the tyre and depress the button on the can - voila - in 5-10secs the tyre is both pumped up automatically and the puncture is sealed (temporarily).
Mistake: something happens but the tyre after 4hours was flat again, the ventil was leaking white foam, and here comes the mistake - as soon as you tried to pump the tyre up - assuming the pucture is sealed - the foam comes into my pump hose and I might need a new pump hose - i didn't expect this!
Learning: don't try and pump up your tyre after it is being filled with this temporary foam sealant
Learning: tyre is not permanently sealed (exactly as the manufactures says)

original from: http://lozarev.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/mistakesmistakes.html