Sound system revelation

I was driving my car last night and discovered a game changing feature of my sound system.

Let me explain.

My car and my journey doubles as a language class. I learn Spanish while I am commuting. I get my lessons from a CD in the CD player, the CD comes as a set of 4 disks. Compact optical disks are old technology but my car's sound system takes compact disks. There is no USB socket or blutooth input feature in my car's dashboard.

The problem is that my learning is unbalanced. I know the first 6 tracks of the compact disk very well but not the other six. While I was driving last night I wondered if there was a way to create a short cut to a track on my disk. It turns out that you can and it works the same way as if you want to store a radio station. Not only that, but I can make the player repeat one CD track over and over and over again. So now I can keep playing one track on the CD until I master it then move to the next one. This finding is such a small thing but to me it is a game changer in my persuit of learning Spanish.

Surely I will learn Spanish more quickly now.

Making my journey count

Like many people in this world, I commute to my job. I try to make my journey count by turning my vehicle into a class room. So when I drive to work, I play a CD that teaches you Spanish.

Well. Yesterday I got a new CD box set of 4 for teaching Spanish and I think this set is better than the old one because the old one uses modern techniques and I'm not modern, I'm like an old book shelf in a library.

Anyway.

I'm actually racing against my infant son to be fully bilingual. He has the supercharged sponge like properties on an infant brain and I have a head start because I already know one language and I know how to move my body. He has to learn everything from scratch, how to walk, swallow, run and sit upright and talk.

I have a feeling it will be a draw.

Car college

When I drive my car, I play a CD that teaches you Spanish so my car has become a learning center or classroom. Most of the Spanish I have learned is from my car. When I get into a traffic jam I don't mind because I am learning Spanish so the time isn't wasted. In fact I learn more when I am in traffic because I'm not distracted by road hazards.

My car is not just a Vehicle, a machine that takes me to places, it is a place of learning. I try to turn all my possessions into assets when I can. My Car is an asset because public transport is more expensive than my fuel and I am learning Spanish which is hard to value.