For almost two years I have known about the polyglot community on YouTube. It all started when I read Babel No More by Michael Erard. He tracked down the world’s most accomplished language learners and wrote about their accomplishments. Soon after reading that book, I found the Polyglot Project, which is a compilation of testimonies…
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This week was a really fun week! I had my first (and, luckily, only) essay of the semester due on Monday, so I had a lot more free time this week than I have had in the past couple of weeks. I used some of that time to start reviewing for my Chinese test at…
Based on the title of this post, you might think this week was really fun and interesting, but it really wasn’t. Most of it was just average with some good and bad stuff. And if that didn’t convince you to read on, I don’t know what will! This week we had Nikki’s high school best…
On Friday after my morning class, I decided to take advantage of my new Historic Scotland pass and I went over to the castle for the first time. I ended up feeling a little overwhelmed by the work I was procrastinating by going there, so I didn’t stay long before I went back to my…
This whole week I knew I wanted to go out of town on Sunday, but I didn’t exactly figure it out until yesterday. I made plans to meet back up with Natalie at the end of her trip in Glasgow. I used this as my reason to go, but I spent most of my time…
I’m just going to leave this here… Last week I didn’t post anything because the highlights of my week were getting a tweet favorited by Michael Erard and going to a 3-hour talent show conducted entirely in Mandarin Chinese. Proof! This week has proved to be significantly more interesting, so I thought I would share…
Originally, I was going to put this stuff in with my other post about my week, but I wanted to do a separate little update about my language learning. Chinese This week was the first week we had our first oral tutorials for Chinese 1. I knew it was going to be the hardest part…
I’ve just finished my second week of uni and here’s what’s been going on! Yesterday, I decided to take a walk around town again, since the weather was so beautiful. I’m actually not sure what’s been up with the weather because every day this week it has been sunny and it has only been raining…
On Saturday, Nikki and I slept in a little, but then cleaned up the flat and went grocery shopping. I also went by myself to the Royal Mile to pick up a French and Spanish newspaper. Later that afternoon I went to another Language Cafe put on by Tandem. There wasn’t really anyone there when…
On September 18, 2014 Scotland held a referendum, where the people voted on whether or not Scotland would separate from the rest of the United Kingdom. I can’t think of any other moment in history where a country has willingly and in a civilized manner let one part of the country vote to separate itself,…