I joined the Navy DEP in July, and I'm supposed to ship to Boot in January. I took the DLAB a few months ago and my contract change request was sent in immeadiatly, and I'm still waiting on the transfer to go through. The official word through the recruiter is that they are "waiting for a spot to open." Anyone else go through a long waiting period ( Read more... )

http://www.language.berkeley.edu/

go to fanjian. its a really cool site to learn how to learn long form if you dont know how.
if you go to intergrated chinese theres a lot of listening practices.
theres also korean and russian

http://www.yesasia.com/

it's a wonderful site for non-region dvd players and all kinds of spiffy translation and interpretation swag! everything an up-and-coming dli linguist might need to conquer the orient (or watch it in the privacy of one's room)...

Navy football game today at 6:30. Against who? I don't know, because Navy will win anyway. Come support you team, though no matter who it might be.

http://www.csulb.edu/web/labs/langlabs/builder/table/chinese/vocab1-14/table.swf

For those of you Chinese students out there, this is a wonderful resource website:
http://resources.emb.gov.hk/~chi/

hmmm..... any of you ever been to morgan's? its a cafe a few streets over from alverado. its really cool. yeah.

I know this does not have anything to do with the DLI directly, but here are a list of events that I shall be attending this week in case anybody else is interested:

Thursday the 5th:
Rock on the Plaza: Live Summer rock/blues music and dancing at Carmel Plaza. I believe this is FREE. 1700-2000

Friday the 6th:
Quantum Mind: Closing the gaps ( Read more... )

This blog is welcome to all students of the Defense Language Institute. Post and be merry.