Something fun that gets said a lot in regards to people who know multiple languages is that their language skills improve when they’re drunk. There are very few talents that a person can have that get better when inebriated, and when thinking about it from an abstract angle, I’d be inclined to expect that it … Continue reading Confidence in Language Learning
At the start of the new year, I outlined some of my yearly themes that I’m keeping in mind, not resolutions per se, just general courses of action I’m trying to take for both this language project and my life in general. The theme of The Year of Striving was the new one I added, … Continue reading Reevaluating Methods
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and happy bank holidays and Designated Chinese Food Day to those who don’t! So this week, as I finished off Tormenta, the first book of The Dresden Files in Spanish, and picked up the second, Luna Llena, I happened upon a language acquisition academic article specifically about reading book … Continue reading Narrow Reading Vs. Wide Reading
Fumbling Toward Fluent 