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April 3rd
Today is the day I built this website. It feels really good to just type freely like this. Once you prep the typing, you can go for as long as you want and it formats itself. I love it. Anyway, today I also finished the "What can HTML do?" section of my HTML Website. You can go check that out on the sidebar on the left. These posts will be weekly, so if you have managed a way to keep up with them, expect that. This particular post will be very short as all there is to talk about is talking about talking about my blog. If that makes sense! Vi ses!

April 10th
Today we just got back our 20% Time presentation rubric. If you're reading this, I'm probably doing it right now. So BE NICE! Just kidding. It's exciting, anyway! We have a 75 point speech, a 50 point presentation board, a 25 point final product (Sounds really low for a final proudct) and a 50 point presentation, for a total of a 200 point test grade. That can fully reconstruct or completely demolish a grade. Anyway, I'm gonna go back to worrying/planning for the final project. Vi ses!

April 24th
Today I finished up the speech I'm probably presenting right now. I'm honestly not that nervous, and I'm excited to present it. To be honest, I love how it turned out. That was just one thing I did today, the other thing I did was finsih up another project we have in Mrs. Browning's class, the This I Believe speech. I'm not so sure I did my absolute best work on it, but I really tried. I'm going to try to refine it later this evening. Next week I'm going to be planning my tri-fold board... the one you guys are looking at! Vi ses!

May 1stThis was a fun and exciting day! We started our tri-fold board. I got my "My Goals Were..." section done. I also got the title and the laptop background going as well. We're going to be working on it all next week. It's going to be all orange, because my favorite color is (and always has been) orange. I also did it to match the background of this blog right here. It should look nice! Although, If I'm honest, I really have nothing else to say here. This might be my last blog post. So to everyone out there reading this, a very nervous Vi ses!

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HUGE TRANSITION!

Never expected this to happen.
For the past few 20% times, I haven't really done much of Danish learning. It just became extremely boring. It isn't something I enjoy, and I hate to say it. Last post I almost hinted at it with the marquee.

I want to do HTML as my 20% time.
Arguably the easiest coding language to learn, it's basically the foundation for websites and other things. I'm having tons of fun messing around with it on test websites, and I hope to create a fully-functioning website about the 20% time of HTML at the end of the year. This won't be easy, but it certainly will be fun.

Vi Ses.

No language today!

Yep. I didn't do any language learning today.
Rather, I simply studied facts and histories of Denmark.
Is that it?
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Project Proposal.

Here's the project proposal:

          20% Time Project Proposal

 

Name: Isaac Hemmes

Project Title: Learning Danish

Project Start Date: Nov. 7^th, 2014

Project Completion Date: May 15^th, 2015

Mentor’s Name: Dayna Browning, Stacia Hemmes

Brief Description: I’m going to be learning Danish and some basic Danish history/facts.

 

Overview of Project Proposal

 

1) Project Objective:

I think I will learn some Danish grammar and basic words, and along the way get some Danish history and trivia. Along the way I will quiz myself and check my progress. If I’m doing less then what I expect of myself, I will study at home. I don’t expect at all to be fluent by the 15^th of May, but I can hope to have an extremely simple Danish conversation.

 

2) Project Rationale:

I’m doing this project because I feel it is something I can enjoy, and something that is also important. My mom speaks fluent Danish, except for one word: Elbow. She doesn’t know how to say that in Danish. I’m not doing this just because my mom has lived in Denmark, either—I actually am a great part Danish.

 

3) Project Steps:

1. Learn.

2. Test.

3. Repeat.

 

4) Timeline of Activities:

 

November-December

Learn a few necessary words.

Example: excuse me, hungry, bathroom

 

January-April

Learn how to pronounce words and put them into a sentence correctly.

Example: Excuse me, I’m hungry. Where is the food?

 

May

Prepare to present results.

 

 

5) Available Human and Material Resources:

My mom.

Online classes.

Rosetta stone.

 

6) Possible Road Blocks:

I could become bored, unmotivated.

I might be unable to learn past a certain point.

 

7) Research Questions:

Who do I know that can speak Danish?

What are some good resources to learn Danish?

Will I ever go to Denmark?

How can I avoid going through all this haphazardly?

 

 Vi ses.

 

 

Day 3.

Day 3 now.
Well, not really. You know what I mean.

I've set the language from English --> Danish to Danish --> English.
Instead of seeing an English word and trying to think of the Danish word, I will not have a Danish word and try to find out what it means in English. I think this is the best way to go about doing it as I no longer have to cover the list of words to select up with my hand. On the downside, it's easy to predict what the English word is based on the word before it and the category.

I've told myself I would get Rosetta stone in here but I haven't done it yet. I promise you that by day four I'll have Danish Rosetta Stone in here (assuming I can find it at my house). For the time being, I use random websites that work okay. These websites though don't go much deeper than simple nouns and don't teach you how to put them in a sentence.

Vi ses.

Day 2.

Well, it's now day 2, and I still don't have many details worked out.
I was planning on using Babbel. It seemed like a good website, but then as soon as lesson one was done... $8/month.
I can't seem to find anything. I think I might just take a Rosetta Stone CD from home.
I know a few of the things to start off, because of my mom using some phrases at home.
This website is a great guide, too: http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/danish.php

Examples include:
Hej- Hi
Vi ses- See you
Tak- Thanks
Godmorgen- Good morning

...and a few others.

Remember how I said "Farvel, venner." last blog?
Well, that means Goodbye, Friends.
Too formal. I used Google Translate.
NOT MAKING THAT MISTAKE AGAIN.
The informal way of saying it, the equivalent of "Bye-bye, or Buh-Bye" is. . .

"Hej hej, venner."

Day one.

So this is my first post of 20% Time. I hope they will be frequent.
I see some example blogs and the updates are sparse.

Well, here's what I plan on doing:
For my 20% Time, I would like to learn Danish.
Obviously, I'm not doing to become fluent in Danish in ~25 90 minute sessions, but I can hope to get some basic grammar down and nouns down.

On another note, right now I have a basic, stock theme for my blog.
I asked my teacher, Miss Browning, if I could use Tumblr, as it's much neater and easier to edit in my opinion. As you can tell, though, my whole class had to do Google Blogs.

It's fine, though. I'll try to keep frequent updates. I don't expect anyone except Miss Browning to follow this, though. If someone does, though, that'd be great.

Bye for now, or in Denmark--
"Farvel, venner."