While redoing nearly all my Pimsleur Portuguese audio lessons, I have also been working away at an Adams Media book called The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Practice Book by Fernanda Ferreira, a professor at Bridgewater State University. For…
I have returned to a book I got only at the very end of last year’s Portuguese unit and therefore didn’t experience much of before now: Sue Tyson-Ward’s Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Portuguese with Two Audio…
Last weekend, I went to my first ever grade school reunion at Carlthorp School in Santa Monica, California. It was a blast. My Fifth-Grade Elementary School Class, 1976, with Me on Upper Left Being there got me thinking again about the…
I don’t care for the term “foodie”; my eating life is very simple. Maybe that’s why I don’t like when language books try to teach me fancy food names—but I do
Four years and two and a half months into this project, I had still never tried the Living Language products. This was true even though I had repeatedly encountered their ads on the subway and I think also seen them…
Every night lately I’ve been dreaming about foreign language. Two nights ago I dreamt that I was in line to pick up my dog from a dogsitter kind of business. I don’t have a dog, but my sleeping…
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…
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…
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…
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I am now on my second day of a more structured program. For me, structured does not mean
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