Thinking of trains and facing language fear Only five months to go until I leave for China. I’m excited to travel to China, to visit a new part of the country and feel that inexplicable thrill I get whenever I step off the plane in Beijing. But as I start to think more about my

Thoughts on negative self talk and language learning confidence Being able to speak a language is how we often frame the ultimate goal of language learning. But we don’t often–at least not in my experience–explicitly address how we speak about our language skills. Ma