Maximise Your Month: August 2015
Well, July is over and apparently we’re well and truly into summer now (not that the weather here is proving it right now). Since we’re almost a week into August, I thought it might be a good idea to look…
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Maximise Your Month: July 2015
So there’s a Maximise Your Month Linkup going on over at Lindsay Does Languages, and I thought, since my crazy June (finishing work, moving home, starting my new job, finding out about my next job, trying to see all the…
6WC Halfway Point (and why I’ve not been around…)
Who else has been taking part in the six week language challenge? Surprisingly, there were only 39 sign-ups this round (it’s usually at least a bit higher, I think) and 34 of us have logged some time, ranging (at present)…
5 Tips for Preparing for the 6WC
With tomorrow comes the first day of May, a lovely holiday, the start of my final month at work here in Austria (until September, anyway) and the beginning of another six week language challenge! Now, I’ve been involved in these…
D: Dreiviertelmond (Zübert, 2011)
Released: 2011 Runtime: 94 minutes Director: Christian Zübert Genre: Comedy Starring: Elmar Wepper, Mercan-Fatima Türköglu
Happy (end of) February!
I’ve been meaning to get this post up for a while. Basically, January was a weird month for me, studying-wise. None of my weekends were free (by choice), so that meant I had to try and hit all my goals…
#FlashSticksFriday – Review
My first ever review, yay! So at the beginning of January, someone from the company FlashSticks contacted me and asked me what I knew about their product and said they’d seen my blog and would I be interested in writing…
So, I have to confess…
Right, so I’ve just spent the past three days in Munich – which was fun for so many reasons – and I’ve been using my German, we went sightseeing, etc., but then on the four-hour train ride back to Vienna…
Learning Slovak – With Difficulty!
We’re three weeks into this year now and that means three-quarters of the way through the uTalk challenge… and there is the slightest possibility that I am not doing as well as I had hoped. I’m perhaps a quarter…
uTalk January Challenge: Which Language Will I Learn?
Drum roll, please! … Okay, maybe not. So no one guessed which language I was planning on learning for the uTalk January Challenge, but oh well. Without any further ado, the language I’ve picked for January iiiiiiiiis….. Slovak! So I…