I think it’s pretty undeniable that the internet has made language learning a lot more accessible than it used to be. The number of available resources has skyrocketed and multiplied, attacking the challenge from multiple angles. Go back twenty years or so and you were stuck with text books and cassette tapes of conversation examples, … Continue reading Resources for Language Learning on the Internet
(This blog is the English translation of this week’s primary blog, which was originally written in Spanish.) Finding time to learn something while working isn’t easy. This week I started a new job and I had to change how I study. I have less free time, so it was necessary to reduce the amount of … Continue reading Learning a Language with a Job
(This blog entry is written in Spanish. There will be an English translation available tomorrow morning / Esta entrada está escrita en español. Habrá una traducción de inglés disponible mañana por la mañana.) Econtrar tiempo para aprender algo mientras trabajas no es fácil. Esta semana, empecé un trabajo nuevo, y tenía que cambiar cómo estudio. … Continue reading Aprender un Idioma con un Trabajo
After last week’s fiasco for studying, brought on by a doozy of an illness, I knew going into this week that I’d end up being in a period of recovery and stabilization. I had to pause my life for the whole week and had lots of things to get caught back up on, which meant … Continue reading Prioritizing Language Learning
It’s been another six months since the last time I added up the total number of words that I’ve read from books in Spanish. That last time had been six months after the previous time I’d added them up, so at this point it’s a bit of a tradition to look back and reflect on … Continue reading Number of Words Read in Spanish After Another Six Months of Reading
Fumbling Toward Fluent 