Monthly Resolution Status

TweetAt the beginning of this month, I made a new month’s resolution to learn 3 new/forgotten French words a day. This translates to 93 words in the month of January. Here is my vocabulary list so far. Together with the unofficial word list I made up last year, I now have 279 words on my [...]

Learn a LangAUge Now

TweetWhat is a good way to start off a conversation with a stranger who has a completely different cultural background from yours? If his native language is also different, why not ask him to talk about it?

Chips, Please

Tweet“What would you like to go with the steak, Sir?” asked the waiter. “Chips, please”, I replied. It was a couple of years ago, when I and some colleagues got sent down to the U.S. for a project. There we were in a restaurant in an old town in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in [...]

Conference Calls

TweetIt has always been my intention that once I have attained a certain level of fluency in a language, my next challenge would be to speak that language in a public setting. Conference call is surely one of these perfect occasions. I once attended a business presentation course. The instructor was asked for some tips [...]

Hitting the Green Button

TweetI have been kind of late jumping onto the Skype wagon. A lot of language learners have already been using it. For me, it was always the first call that seemed so difficult to make. I installed Skype a couple of months ago when version 2.5 first came out. I thought to myself, “One day [...]

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