The only thing you really need to learn a language Happy 2019! It’s a new year, and if your goal is to learn a language or improve your language skills, I’ve got just the trick for you. All you have to do is…. make it a priority! Easier said than done, I know, but ov
“I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love… poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point&#
“There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.” (Albert Camus, El Mito de Sísifo y otros ensayos) Mirarse al espejo Seguía esperando el fin de
Starting Out Right for Sustained Language Learning Recently I watched my friend, clinical counsellor Elana Sures, talk about values-driven goal setting during a Breakfast Television spot about New Year’s resolutions. She spoke about the importance of focussing on our values and
The Work of Teachers Did you know World Teachers’ Day is today? Teaching is one of the most ubiquitous and perhaps most misunderstood jobs. We spend our days with other people’s kids. Sometimes we have a lot of fun. Sometimes we don’t. We get a winter break a spring
What Have You Learned From Teaching? At the end of my first term in a High School classroom full-time, I wrote a post about five of the things I wish I’d known about teaching before I’d started. Since that time, I’ve finished a school year and am preparing for anothe
Debunking one of the Greatest Myths in Language Learning Happy New Year! The time has come to set new language-learning goals. What’s that? You think you’re too old to learn a language? Think again! Here are 5 reasons why adults can, in fact, learn new languages: 1. The sc
Learning a language? Keep going. Hello from the frontier of what I think they call ‘intermediate’ in language learning. Maybe prompted by the change in geography–last week I moved from the dry yellow plains of Mesopotamia to the green mountains of Eastern Anatolia–I recogn
Language learning “check in” I started dreaming in Turkish. Well, I had one very mundane dream involving basic sentences (which makes sense, since my brain probably won’t produce Turkish sentences that it can’t comprehend), and a few times in the early morning
