As I round the first year of this language project, I’m feeling pretty good about where I’m at. My reading ability is at a high level and I’m continuing to feel improvements, with my listening ability catching up at a steady pace. My output abilities are still left rather undeveloped, but more and more expressions … Continue reading What I Know Now About Starting
I’ve mentioned in passing before that I write fiction in addition to the variety of other things I fill up all my time with. In truth, though, there hasn’t been much fiction writing happening for the last few years for me, so when November came around, the month of NaNoWriMo, I decided that I ought … Continue reading Language Learning and Procrastination
One of the more interesting things that’s been happening to me while learning Spanish is noticing when improvement creeps up on me. There are lots of times when improvement is very noticeable, especially in the early-going. Going back to El Principito after a couple of books and being able to blow through it was obvious, … Continue reading Improvement Creeps
After getting annoyed with myself in the previous blog over my loss of focus on listening practice, I put in more effort through the week, and ended with a pretty stable block of time every day watching a variety of things. I’ve been doing the listening practice for a long time now, longer than I’ve … Continue reading Listening to a Language Vs. Hearing One
Fumbling Toward Fluent 