uTalk January Challenge
I know, I know. I have plenty to do already (today alone I’m supposed to be translating and studying Spanish and simplifying an article for tomorrow for school and presumably packing at some point) – so what am I doing…
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100 Days of Spanish: Day 14
It’s been a whirlwind these last two weeks, but I’ve tried to fit in Spanish whenever possible. As I mentioned in the last post, I had relatives visiting from the 4th-9th December, so I didn’t really study then (though I…
100 Days of Spanish: My Resources
I guess there’s no real reason for me to hold off on beginning until tomorrow, but I’d like to start with as clean a slate as possible, so I keep scouting out my Spanish resources but I’m trying not to…
100 Days of Spanish
I guess it kind of seems like I’d given up on this blog. Not really, though I’ve been absent of late. I’m so glad that I managed to get through 26+ posts in August – but I do not know how…
6WC – August 2014
It’s come around again: this month (and the first two weeks of September) brings another round of the six week language learning challenge! And for this one, instead of Spanish, I’m learning Italian. It’s not the first time I’ve studied Italian;…
Hello August!
So here I am, back on this oft-neglected blog with some fun stuff planned for this coming month. As it is, I’ve got this full month in the UK and then I’ll be off to Europe, so I’m hoping to…
Monday Motivation: Test Your Language Level
So I was over on tumblr (side note: I have a language tumblr that gets updated way more often than this blog!) and someone posted a link to this website, where you can test your language level. You can only…
The Super Challenge has begun!
Okay, so it began a month ago. I may have dropped the ball a little. Basically, the Super Challenge lasts from 1st May 2014 to 31st December 2015 and involves you reading 100 books and watching 100 films in your…
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Staying Current: Watching the News in your Target Language
In terms of language learning, the skill I always have the most trouble with is listening. It’s always been a problem – and most of that problem comes from the fact that I just don’t practice it enough. One of…