My husband is German, but despite his blond hair and blue eyes, you wouldn’t know it. There is only one thing that will turn his whats into vats: visits…
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Category Archives: Language Journeys
China Through Children’s Eyes — and Voices
I recently had a unique opportunity to travel to China with fourth and sixth grade students from the elementary school in which I teach. The students were learning Chinese…
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Reading Swedish Poetry
Taking another plunge, this past week I threw myself into trying to read “real” Swedish poetry again. By “real,” I mean poems that were written in Swedish by native…
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Language Love: How Rosetta Stone Is Going to Help Xavier Nab His Dream Job
The following excerpt is written by high school student and linguistics enthusiast Xavier. He has a deep interest in language learning and discusses why it is so…
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Rosetta Stone, Semantics, and the Dark Unknown
Dominic Balbed is a first year student at Georgia State University studying applied linguistics.
Learning more about the vast universe of languages is important to me for a multitude of…
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Bridging the Communication Gap
I’m on business quite frequently and happened to glance to the person across the aisle from me who was using Rosetta Stone interactive tutorial during the flight. We are…
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Preventing History from Repeating Itself
I lived in Panama for 18 years. I was born there and left in 1973. When living in Panama most people were bilingual – English and Spanish. So I…
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Brooklyn, Sweden
So as I continue my foray back into the…
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There’s a Lot of Joy in a Little Bell Ring
I’m coming to French out of necessity. Sometime in the coming months I’m headed to Rwanda to work in a few refugee camps for the American Refugee Committee,…
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Jättebra! Getting Back to Swedish!
So where could you go to see people making cartoon faces and becoming mouth contortionists, all while trying to learn a language? Well, you could’ve traveled to my Swedish…
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