8 long years… That’s how long I studied Spanish. Elementary school Spanish was fun. Middle school Spanish a joke. And high school Spanish (or at least the last two years of it) an absolute nightmare. Entering my junior year in high school, I had resigned myself to the fact that I couldn’t learn a foreign […]
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Each day I study. Each day I write. Each day I think. Sometimes it’s something as simple as a line in a movie that catches my attention. Sometimes half my day disappears into my education. It’s not always easy and it’s not always fun. Take today, I spent 4 hours studying finance…and let me tell
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Let me start off this post with a small confession. For years, I thought I would never be able to learn a foreign language. My parent spoke English. I spoke English. And luckily, speaking English alone, we were able to get by despite living in South East Asia for years. For me, I thought studying
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My wife is often asked by people – how did you learn English? People wonder if she studied abroad, or if she was born overseas. No and no. She went old school – she studied. There were nights when she cried and days when she wanted to give up. But she didn’t. She listened, read,
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