Last Sunday I went to the Brooklyn language event I mentioned previously in this blog, Foreign Language Hopscotch. It was a three-hour language-learning extravaganza, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., covering more than 20 different languages through a series of half-hour…
As I continue to review Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, and Italian for my New York City Marathon volunteering duties next month, I keep thinking that some languages seem oddly undiscriminating about how aesthetically pleasing things really are. The Marathon Signs…
Sundays are bewildering, as are Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, because so many choices are involved. I Struggled Between These This Morning Like: Italian or Portuguese or French? Then: book or audio lesson or flashcards? Then: which book,…
To my New York City metropolitan area readers, this is a language-news bulletin for you. Brooklyn Bridge: Head on Over! On October 20th, you are invited to attend Foreign Language Hopscotch, a cool event in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, and…
I am a little sleep-deprived today, for which I blame Oliver Antosch and Wei Hsiang Lin, a husband-and-wife team whose UK-based company, Antosch & Lin, has a dozen different flashcard websites that kept me up way into the wee hours. …
The books shown in the picture below arrived three days ago from Routledge, launching me into a state of linguistic euphoria. A Magnificent Pile of Routledge Language Books I’ve used Routledge books for a number of languages, but mostly…
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I am now on my second day of a more structured program. For me, structured does not mean
My New York City apartment building sometimes requires repointing. I always knew that repointing was some kind of fixing-up process, but I never bothered to inform myself of its meaning, so when I heard the term, I always just pictured…
Over the weekend, in a sudden burst of organizational ardor, I reorganized my bookshelves so I could fit all my language-learning materials in one place. They are now ordered alphabetically by language and by status (i.e., based on whether…
In the wee hours of this morning, I began using Assimil, which bills itself as “Europe’s top language learning method.” I liked it. I liked it quite a lot. What I Started Reading Around Midnight Last Night Assimil is…
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