It sure is quiet around here, eh? You must all have your noses in your books.

So has anyone found any good resources lately? Tried any interesting study ideas?

I've been trying to start a study / practice group here in Denver. There used to be one organised through meetup . com but it got too expensive so the organiser quit. They now want $19 for the first month, to allow you to set up a group through their website. That's a bit more than I'm willing to front on an idea that may or may not take off.

I went to university classes for MSL for almost 2 years and got discouraged because after that I still couldn't have a decent conversation, so I'm taking a break from that, and trying to use books & CDs etc that give me some conversational skills.

One friend that I met with lately has done a lot of linguistics studies. He learned ways of learning languages as a survival skill - like, what to do if your airplane breaks down and you parachute into totally foreign country where you don't know the language at all. Interesting.

So anyway, enough about me - what are you all doing out there? I'd like some motivation here!