If you can’t find the route to pleasure in language-learning, you are doomed. Unless you are a masochist and enjoy perma-suffering. I do not. For me, if language-learning is not fun, it’s just not happening. Started a New…
The past three days I have worked more on my new Persisch für Anfänger book. More important, I have finally left (some of) my technological ignorance behind and discovered the miracle of foreign keyboards on…
A few days ago I began Assimil’s Le Persan, and it is going great. What a carefully put together book. It has wit, it has scrupulous editing, it has excellent pacing. My Persian Book from Assimil; CDs…
I’m going to Germany in less than two weeks for Polyglot Gathering Berlin 2014. While there, I would like my German not to be totally lame. I have not been using it, and it is rusty. Everything is constantly rusting,…
Today I went to my orientation session to be a Big Apple Greeter. As a Big Apple Greeter, my (volunteer) job will be to greet visitors to New York City and show them how a New Yorker lives. For example,…
I am in Germany, in Berlin, and I can’t get out! My plane back to New York had a technical problem. “Technical problem,” in my experience, can mean many things, many of those many things not actually technical at…
Now that the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin is over, I am full swing back into Persian. Besides redoing the Pimsleur Persian lessons (I had to; my head is a sieve), I am reading an oldie but goodie from 1953: Ann Lambton’…
Yesterday my husband, Brandt, and I got on our building’s elevator with a neighbor who was carrying a small rectangular bag over her shoulder. Much Love to Brandt, Who Has Never Once Complained About My Taking Pimsleur Lessons to…
One of my problems as a language learner is that I really like reading books about language and at times have trouble making myself go out in the world. I am reading some eight different books about Persian right now.…
Persian has multiple dialects. I have been focusing on the one from Iran, often referred to as Farsi here in the U.S., but there are only 30 Pimsleur lessons for it. For Dari, the Persian dialect spoken in Afghanistan…
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