Today I’m really excited to have my first guest post on this blog! My friend James, who went with me on my recent trip to Finland had some thoughts about bilingualism, so I asked him to write about it for my blog and he wrote a lovely reflection on his experience in Finland. It’s weird…
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Like I said in the post about Tallinn and Stockholm, Emma is from Finland, so we decided to all go to Finland to hang out for about a week. In my last post, I talked about our 4th of July celebrations in Finland, and now I’m going to actually say what we did in Finland!…
It just so happened to work out that I was in Finland this year for the 4th of July. I’m not the most patriotic person in the world, but I realized this past year that I am more attached to traditions than I thought I was. Last year, Thanksgiving didn’t really feel like Thanksgiving. I…
A few months, in the middle of exams – perhaps during a trip to IKEA – James, Emma, and I cooked up the idea that we might come to Finland (since that’s where Emma’s from), and it actually happened! On Wednesday, James, Emma, and I got a flight at 10pm to Stockholm, where we had…
Last I wrote here, I was preparing for exams and now I’m DONE! I’ve been done for a while, actually. And a few things have happened since then. During exams I got my ears pierced, which is very exciting for me, but most people react by saying something along the lines of “wait, you didn’t…
Back in February, I made a video of my presentation for my last Chinese oral exam (watch here), and I decided to do that again. This is my presentation for the oral component of my final exam for Chinese 1. I’m fairly content with my progress, but I wish we had learned a little more….
I read mostly non-fiction books in my own time, and most of them are language-learning or linguistics books, so I was thinking about writing about the ones I read. I should come up with a catchy name for this series, but first we’ll see if I actually get around to making a second post. The…
Ok, let me explain. The Common European Framework of Referencing for Language (CEFR) is a scale that many people use to describe language proficiency levels, rather than trying to understand all those arbitrary terms like fluent, intermediate, conversational, etc. There are three levels – A, B, and C – and each level has two sub-levels,…
I got back from a Spain on Tuesday and Friday I left for England. I feel like I haven’t had any time in Edinburgh in forever, but I had such a nice weekend in York! I went to York for a conference held by ULAB, the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain. I went with about…
Paulina and I left Murcia Sunday morning and headed back to Granada together. When I got to Granada, I bought a bus ticket to Málaga and I was on my way for the last leg of the trip. Read about my time in Granada and Murcia if you haven’t already! When I got to Málaga,…