A Black Sea health resort, and Tallinn
Jun. 20th, 2026 02:20 amThe dialogue for the episode varies between unnecessarily and incomprehensibly over-complex (there were significant chunks I could only get by replaying it with the subtitles, like the business about the 'Middle Ages fortress walls'(?) [*looks it up*: yes, that's a very obscure adjective]) and the wooden and uninspiring phrases ("Do you play volleyball? No, I don't play volleyball") that were presumably part of the brief for this lesson, but which are not worked into any sort of actual story :-( ( Read more... )
Lesson 23, on the other hand, is immediately very much better; it embraces its limits and manages to provide both entertainment and educational content at the same time, while supplying what feels like a great deal more dialogue for learning purposes. As is so often done in these tele-courses, they use the device of involving children to justify the simplification and repetition that is needed for effective learning( Read more... )






