Lady is Learning Languages - 5 tools

My top applications:

Currently using:
Duolingo
Dic-O mobile dictionaries
On hold:
Anki
Skype
Might try:
LingQ

Also, I am currently in Germany which helps to boost my German conversation possibilities:)

Ladylike skills: Crocheting

As my german course was approaching an end I wanted to leave a nice memory for the teacher and
so I decided to crochet a simple winter hat like this. However, it turned out a little different.

and so, as I finally understood how to increase the size of the next row, I decided to convert it into a hat for the baby (luckily, the teacher was expecting one). I forgot to take a picture of it:)

My next project is a scarf
I am using a thin needle (4mm) so it will probably take a bit longer than an hour...

Another WIP is a simple cozy to cover a tin which I am using as a pen holder. I am using a different pattern, though (double crochet all the way:) )

I have also started to use ravelry. It is a site for keeping track of projects and patterns in crocheting, knitting and other techniques.

Learning Gospel by Heart - Reasons and Tools

Why would anybody want to learn gospel by heart?

I have been thinking a lot about my life of faith lately. Student experience in Germany gives me some fresh difficulties to be overcome, for example:

• Difficulty to find a helpful catholic community.
• Gottesdienst vs heilige Messe
• Timetables on the internet do not correspond to the actual mass timetables necessarily
• Making a confession in German

All these are a welcome challenge to rethink my life of faith. One of the tools I would like to use is scripture memorization. Why? I have several reasons to try it out.

I have a good role model, one of the heroes of Slovak underground Church during the regime of communists. Silvester Krčméry [krch-meh-ri] was a physician who developed some important diagnostic procedures but more important, he survived several years of brainwash in the communist prison (imprisoned for a membership in a prayer group) and wrote a book about it. The book was translated into English as This Saved Us but is currently out of print.

Important point the book makes that Silvester brought great strenght from the fact that he knew one of the 4 gospels by heart. He was part of a small group of christians who knew that communist prosecution was coming and wanted to prepare themselves for the eventuality of prison. They fed their souls with the Word of God in order to survive the coming spiritual famine of the socialist prison. Also, every one of them knew a different gospel and in a different language, so if they got to a prison together, they could reconstruct the whole of 4 gospels. Silvo knew the Gospel of John in Russian.

Another reason for me is to simple work on my memory because to be a scientist or a writer good memory vital.

And the Bible provides many verses to comfort, rebuke, or to know more about the mightiest and greatest Friend, Father, Maker, Saviour, Lord.

What are tools which could help me?

So far I have found two promising specialized options:
Memverse.com
is a website which promises learning quickly and with a community. It looks nice but I think I will try the other option first.
Bible Memory: Remember Me
provides an Android application devised by a swiss priest. It includes many languages. For this challenge I decided to use the german translation Einheitsübersetzung. I really like to spend my waiting time learning useful things or at least reading.

Another option is to use Anki with which I already have had some experience in learning and reviewing vocabulary(even though lately I switched to Duolingo).
I have found very good sounding advice to use initials mnemonics for every verse and then discard them eventually.