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If we’re being honest, podcasts are not that great for language learners who are just beginning their language-learning journey. Unlike watching TV or movies, learners don’t get context clues or images or subtitles to help understand the foreign language spewing…
I have a love for long car trips. When I was younger, my family drove everywhere. For us a 6-hour road trip was nothing. 9-hours in the car was doable, and 12-hours was where things started to feel pretty long….
I still remember the first ever home cooked meal I ate in France. I had just arrived as an au pair in a tiny (and I mean tiny) town in the French Alps about 45 minutes from Chamonix, and I…
I’m a grocery store fanatic. It sounds weird, but I love a good grocery store trip. When my boyfriend starts putting on his jacket and pulling out the reusable bags from the closet, I suddenly turn into an overly excited…
I’m not going to lie, I spend way too much time on Instagram. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is go for my phone. And while I’m trying to help end my Instagram addiction,…
May 1st wears a few different hats in France. You might hear it referred to as la Fête du Travail, laFête du Muguet, or just simply le 1er Mai. La Fête du Travail, or Labor Day, is a public holiday…
Ever since I moved across the Atlantic Ocean a year and a half ago, I had to start making the conscious effort to stay in touch with family and friends. I learned that it can be really easy to let…
I’ve been using Rosetta Stone for language learning since it was just this huge box filled with CDs. Over the years I’ve watched the company evolve to also include an app, but I didn’t think it could get much better…
In German, “tongue twister” is translated as Zungenbrecher, or “tongue crusher,” whereas the Italians translate it as scioglilingua, or “tongue melter.” In French its virelangue, or “tongue turner,” and in Spanish its trabalenguas, or “tangled-up tongues.” Each of these languages…
Earlier this afternoon I was standing oog in oog met (face to face with) Van Gogh in Amsterdam. There he was with his green eyes and red beard wearing a blue smock telling me goedemiddag (good afternoon). And all of…
Human connectivity is everything right now. I was excited to use Rosetta Stone’s Live Tutoring because that meant being able to talk to someone like me who’s stuck at home. I will say that I didn’t expect to get schooled the way I did in these sessions!
Our modern day calendar hasn’t changed much since the first 12-month calendar was invented thousands of years ago, but there was a 12-year period in French history where the calendar we know today, the Gregorian calendar, was replaced with a…
