Eurolinguiste / Language Resources
Friends, I am so very excited about this coming month and the month after. I have some really exciting stuff in store and I can’t wait to share it with you! If you’re new around these parts, #clearthelist is a linkup where we share our monthly goals, and by we, I mean myself, Lindsay of Lindsay Does Languages, Kris Broholm of Actual Fluency, and Angel...
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Language Resources
When I first started seriously studying languages, I was a university student. Language learning was something that I had to fit in around my core studies. Because my program was intensive, having a class I needed to show up for made it easier to fit time in for language learning. There was a teacher and there were grades keeping me accountable. When I graduated, I lost...
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Language Resources
One of the best language learning podcasts out there is run by Kris Broholm. It’s called the Actual Fluency Podcast and as a part of it, Kris interviews language learners from across the globe on their strategies and thoughts on picking up up new languages. Kris recently released his first language course, Language Routine Mastery, and if you struggle with motivation in your language learning,...
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Travel
While I was at university, I began trying out my travel wings. I lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and it was the perfect starting point for a variety of adventures because of the access I had to budget airlines to get around Europe. But one of the things I always dreamed of doing was of taking a ship from Ireland to Scotland and so I...
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Language Resources
Warning: incredibly long post. Skip here if you want to get straight to the language learning stuff. Not long ago, my parents decided to make a few changes to their home. This meant that they needed to move their furniture around and the items I had stowed away in some of that furniture had to go. You see, my husband and I had just moved...
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Eurolinguiste
Each time I travel, there’s one souvenir I always bring back home. Photos of the doors that caught my eye. There’s just something about doors that captivate me. They have personalities and histories of their own. They’ve been loved, mistreated (slammed), appreciated, and forgotten. They’re something so every day, that they often seem mundane and we don’t always notice them. In the Caribbean, we saw...
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Language Resources
Despite several years of language learning under my belt, there’s still one thing that I struggle with more than anything else. Consistency. Don’t get me wrong – I love learning languages which is why I keep doing it over and over and over. Sometimes, life just gets in the way. Today, sitting down and studying is habitual. It feels weird to me if I don’t...
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Travel
The Citadelle de Besançon, or Citadel of Besançon, is a 17th century fortress designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. Perched at the top of Mount Saint-Etienne, the Citadel covers about 27 acres and it hosts an incredible view of the city below. The Citadel hosts several museums – the museum of the Resistance, a natural history museum (and zoo), a museum that showcases the traditions of Franche-Comté,...
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Italian. One of the first languages I tackled, and one that as of late, was long neglected. It is also one that I worked on when I had absolutely no idea how to study a language. Italian is one that I thought a course and a certification meant I knew it. One that I continued to study for a few short months after school in...
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Travel
As a musician, I have a lot of little cables, adaptors, devices, make-up, and accessories that I carry around with me whenever I travel. I also have clothes and shoes that need to be neatly stored so that when I arrive, they’re in performance condition. In the past, I just tucked them into whichever pockets I could in my backpack, hoping they’d be protected, only...
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