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I found a Spanish-language textbook with one of the most unique themes in the foreign-language textbook market today
If only they had committed 100% to the experience 😩
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The blog
Language tips, expat stories, and the occasional existential question — all in one place.
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If you asked me to start learning a new language from tomorrow, here's exactly what I'd do.
Whether it be Spanish, Norwegian, or Chinese – I got a 6-step process, and now you do too!
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Come Learn With Me: A Hallway Find, a Highlighter, and Two Languages at Once
On finding gems, using what you find, and why old books often teach you better than anything out there today :)
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How did you learn three foreign languages?
My most frequently asked question with the simplest of answers: I treat learning like a skill. Here's how I channel my inner Microsoft notification and never gi
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Learning a language "automatically" & the (fruitless) quest for the best tonkotsu ramen in Berlin
Where does the idea come from that the way you learn a language should be automatic as opposed to other skills? I ponder this while mourning a particularly disa
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The Year-Begin Crunch
Italy and thesis deadlines encroach. Dishes pile up and so does the stuff on my floor. They say Rome wasn't built in a day... or a month... so, uh, how long did
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Building Better Habits for the New Year
Got a feasible, interesting thesis idea and completed a little code project! Yay! But still wrestling with annoying but important habit-related minutiae 😅
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A Happy New Year! With a *lot* ahead
featuring a pressing deadline, tips for better sleep from an unusual art exhibit, and the unexpected, VERY WELCOME, discovery of a dream job
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Reverse Culture Shock: Reflections on the US
Back from the US, back to routine. Updates on Italy, my thesis, coding bootcamp, and figuring out where I'm supposed to be 🗺
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How to show up & do the thing
Enjoying the first — and last for me — fully in-person semester at Uni; Coding logic is hard
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Finding my destiny... ✨ as a career coach?
A HUGE week: I now know what my destiny is 🔮; my book is going to take on a totally different form now (oddly thanks to my friend and therapist) 👩🏼💻; and t
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Code Camp & other lessons in logic
Starting web dev bootcamp and it feels so right; the Embassy event that gave me confidence; how the slightest change of location makes a difference; combatting
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Do I take the plunge?
Chaos roundup: One project down, another one added?; revisiting a hobby for fun; lessons from recent language struggles; how to keep a killer time schedule with
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Lesson Learned: Always Backup Your Stuff to the Cloud 😰
Roundup: how a near catastrophic loss of data saved my rear; the apps I use for digital organization; an unexpected compliment; my new daily yet exhausting lang
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Welcome to The Blonde Prerogative
Where you may find out what unnecessary torture I've put myself up to, on a weekly basis.
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