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I have been bad at keeping up this blog! Where does the time go? To be continued ….
Lesson 6 took place on 18 July.  I think we had SL sound problems again so we went onto Skype.  I think we met in the Italian cafe again, in the piazza.  We talked about the weather (as [...]

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This lesson was a bit of a disaster as we couldn’t get any of the sound systems to work! And we both had to download the client AGAIN before starting, which delayed us too. I’d also been in SL with earphones on for about two hours in a meeting with other work colleagues, so my [...]

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Started with a few technical hitches with the sound- switching from SL Voice to Skype and vice versa a couple of times.
Talked about what we eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner. Then learnt the days of the week and some numbers. Followed by months of the year.
The Italian team have obviously spent some time setting up [...]

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In Lesson 3, instead of using Skype with Second Life, we used the in-world Voice Viewer which worked well.  I did get a bit of an echo, but it wasn’t too distracting and at least it gave me a chance to hear how badly I pronounce the Italian! Vaniglia Oh had invited two other people [...]

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I have just had my second lesson in Italian in Second Life.  We also used Skype today which is great for pronunciation.  We went to the Sistine Chapel – which is a fantastic replica of the real thing. A great resource to use in language learning (or art history or religion.) I must have been [...]

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Vaniglia Oh invited people to join an Italian class in Second Life.  Loving languages as I do, and having done a crash course many, many years ago, I contacted Vaniglia Oh.  I had an ‘interview’ with this very gorgeous looking Italian woman avatar in an office and then she took me to an Italian cafe.  [...]

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