[Bluebear]

Originally Posted by Galatea

Marie, is there a public library you can visit?

They'll have a variety of encyclopedias there, books on everything, at all levels, and maybe audio-books that can be listened-to along with reading the text for vocabulary; also newspapers, for headlines/current events and local events and issues.

On YouTube there's a great variety of audiobooks - just had a quick look, and I see my own favourites like Agatha Christie's Poirot, Ian Fleming's Bond books, and books by P.G.Wodehouse are there.

I think that anything that exercises the mind in various ways - word-games, card-games, puzzles, art, music, arithmetic, dance-steps or exercise-routines - will add to the mind's flexibility and capacity for new things.

Good on you for beginning this quest, and very best wishes!

I might try some of these.