by Chrissi Barton | Dec 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
I recently signed up to a French class. The group meets online once a week for 2 hours and we are working our way through an A2 book filled with practical exercises, vocabulary and grammar rules. Fortunately, I have found a great group – only 3 adults, all...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
When I was at school learning languages I thought the performance of the top students was forever beyond my reach. I believed this so strongly that I never even tried to work out how to catch them up. I may have had some encouragement from the school on that. First,...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Good morning! So my plan was to add 150 new words of Italian each day during November. That is around the amount added during a degree, learned in a month but that is a conversation for another day. The lives of adults do not always run smoothly due to the many...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
5 days completed, 750 words of Italian learned (150 per day as promised). To put that in perspective it is significantly more progress than a GCSE student makes in a year. But unlike the GCSE because I am expanding my vocabulary very quickly it is exciting. I look...