So last week, I was soundly defeated by a book. Things were nicely timed to where I finished El Maravilloso Mago de Oz on Monday, and would be beginning my next book at the start of this week: Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal. Perfect! I’d been working my way up in reading level more … Continue reading Facing Defeat and Bouncing Back
Month: June 2018
Reading in a Foreign Language: The Struggle Is Real
I have no memory of learning to read. The closest I have to that is hazy scenes of a time when I was very small and not wanting to read when asked, which is of course not the same thing. It was a time when I was capable of reading, but hadn’t yet fallen in … Continue reading Reading in a Foreign Language: The Struggle Is Real
What and Why Deeper Dive
Two weeks in, and I am finding myself struggling with trying to figure out how to start these blogs off. I haven’t quite nailed down the voice I’m aiming to strike in them, or have a pictured “audience” that I could project to, so there’s a bit of stumbling to fall into a tone I … Continue reading What and Why Deeper Dive
Feeling The Stupidest, but also Smart
Over the last six months, I’ve become well acquainted with feeling dumb. It’s a laughably easy achievement in language learning, all it takes is seeing a word that you know you’ve seen at least five times before and being utterly baffled trying to remember the definition, or seeing a sentence where every word in it … Continue reading Feeling The Stupidest, but also Smart
Fumbling Toward Fluent 