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A tale of R’s: part 3 (the end of story)

April 30, 2012
A tale of R’s: part 3 (the end of story)

I was emotionally crushed that fateful night. The usually steady train of thoughts, which had always carried the internal monologue in English without delays or accidents, went completely off the rails upon leaving my mouth.

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A tale of R’s: part 2 (in which the story really begins)

April 26, 2012
A tale of R’s: part 2 (in which the story really begins)

I used to flunk the classes for half a year, come back in the end of a term and take some sort of perverse pleasure in seeing the teachers boil in silent anger over my lack of attendance having no visible consequences on my language skills.

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No big deal

April 20, 2012
No big deal

So I’d team up with random strangers I’ve just met a couple hours earlier and we would go on a hike around the city, popping into bars, laughing, striking up conversations with persons on the streets, exchanging odd bits of advice.

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The sweet taste of fluency

January 8, 2012
The sweet taste of fluency

It has been seven months since my last post. This summer I went on a digital sabbatical, spending an unforgettable summer in Barcelona, followed by a considerably hectic second half of the year. I’m back, my friends, with the erratic and consistently inconsistent programming.

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There is no failure or success in language learning

May 4, 2011
There is no failure or success in language learning

The April is now officially over, and the time has come to share the results of my little adventure in the land of language learning I’ve embarked upon a month ago as a part of the 30-day challenge concept.

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Save the children, learn some language

April 2, 2011
Save the children, learn some language

Language is a habit too. When you use it often enough, it becomes a second nature, and you don’t think about learning it anymore. It’s just there, in your head, shaping your thoughts into a form the others could understand.

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Challenge accepted!

March 21, 2011
Challenge accepted!

As an engineer, I prefer to make things happen and show some results as soon as they are available. This creates a sort of momentum to keep going until the goal is reached.

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Stay-at-home Spanish immersion, part 1

February 16, 2011
Stay-at-home Spanish immersion, part 1

I decided to start a series of posts on the immersion strategy I use these days to keep me addicted to Spanish and dreaming of Buenos Aires when it seems that all hope is lost and the winter will go on forever.

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Language addiction and the Twitter experiment

January 30, 2011
Language addiction and the Twitter experiment

So far, I found writing to be the best way to take a long and honest look at the actual amount of vocabulary I am able to use in order combine words into sentences.

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A tale of R’s: part 1 (in which the story begins)

December 13, 2010
A tale of R's: part 1

Today I will start telling a little story I’d like to call a tale of R’s, on a subject which I found to be quite fascinating on a personal level.

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What is this all about?

December 6, 2010
What is this all about?

All right, the blog is up and running, everything seems to be working smoothly. I finally have gotten to the good stuff – the writing. As I mentioned in a previous essay, I intentionally skipped explaining why I chose languages as a theme of my blog.

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