I think that so far in this blog, I’ve done a bad job of accurately describing my listening comprehension level in Spanish, and may have presented things in a misleading way.  Not on purpose, mind you, describing these sorts of things is kinda hard.  It’s difficult to be truly impartial, what with my perspective of … Continue reading Defining Listening Comprehension

If you were to jump down to the numbers section for this week’s blog, you would see that last Saturday was rather abnormal for me.  I had the day that was unusually free and could spend it basically however I wanted to spend it, and it turns out that what I wanted to do was … Continue reading Language Learning: Work or Play?

Ostensibly, one of the primary goals of this blog is to serve as an example after the fact of “What it takes to learn a language,” (if I’d done it perfectly, I would have started this back on day one, but hindsight being what it is and all, just gotta make do with the portion … Continue reading Learning a Foreign Language: How Much Time Does it Take?

In keeping track of all these numbers, one of the figures I haven’t been posting is what this is doing to my bank account.  An old saw about language learning is how incredibly expensive it is by necessity.  You need to go abroad and be immersed in the language in order to learn it, you … Continue reading Learning a Foreign Language Without Going Broke