Libros, futbol, y peliculas

I'm trying to continue learning Spanish. After spending 8 months listening to Teach Yourself Spanish CDs while zooming up and down the 401, I'm finding that I'm missing it a little. Unfortunately, when I'm not confined to a car for hours at a time, learning by CD isn't my favoured method of picking it up. I can listen (and follow along in the small booklet) for 30 minutes or so but I quickly lose interest. I just don't feel active enough.

So I decided to combine two of my interests: learning Spanish and - naturally - futbol. For the past two weeks, I have had my RSS reader pointed to both Marca and AS, the top two sports papers in Madrid. Sitting at my desk at home, I can quickly flip through my Collins Express Spanish Dictionary to look up unknown words in the articles, which keeps the pace quick and keeps me on my toes.

Finally, I'm going to mine some of my easier movies for their Spanish audio. This weekend, for starters, I'm going to try to make it through the first half of Shrek in Spanish.

Reading: Finished Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide. It'll be a very handy reference until the Copyright Act is updated. I have now moved on to The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. It's a bit dated now (first published in 2004) but it's a good reminder of some of the things I was following way-back-when.