Yesterday Brandt and I returned to New York from Genoa. I studied hours and hours on the way home, trying to get back into the Hebrew groove. Bus from Genoa to Milan. No Flash, Because I Didn’t Think That…
On January 1, I realized I forgot to get a flu shot this year. The reason I remembered on January 1 is that I came down with the flu. At first I thought it was food poisoning, but its persistence, and some…
It has been 29 days since my last blog entry and I have…studied. Multilingual Coffee at Aroma I really have, and every day. I just didn’t happen to blog about it, because life intruded, and while I love writing…
On Wednesday I visited a first-year Hebrew class at Columbia University. I arranged this visit with Dr. Rina Kreitman, who is the Hebrew program coordinator for the department of MESAAS. Entrance, Columbia University MESAAS? I had to turn to Google…
I began studying Dutch two days ago, but I really wanted to squeeze in one more Hebrew-related activity before moving on. So yesterday I decided to go walk around Borough Park, a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn. I am nearly positive…
I found it extremely difficult to get through Michael Erard’s new book, Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners. And I mean that as the highest form of praise. Michael Erard’…
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