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A Driving Tour Of Ireland should be on everyones list, this short basic itinerary and personal Travel Ireland Blog can help you plan it!

Affordable Gifts For Travellers While it is great to splash out every now and then – decent, quality, and great presents don’t have to be expensive! That’s why I have put this list together – eight great travellers gifts for under a tenner! All prices accurate at time...

Spanish Challenge Day 14 – Final Day of Learning Spanish in Two Weeks!

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Preparing for the trip Today was mostly spent getting ready and trying ten thousand ways to micropack the same ten pieces of clothing and obsessing about whether or not I have got everything. The Spanish I did do was rehashing my basic survival stuff, hello, how are...

Spanish Challenge Day 13

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Duo lingo 4 lessons – 20 minutes Vocab from conversations – 30 minutes Spanish music all day 50 minutes Today I did some more catch up, learning the things from the two Spanish conversations that I had been to. I did have a bit of a stall though, while it is all very...

Spanish Challenge Day 12

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Today I mostly played catch up – see yesterdays post for the shame filled admittance of linguistic neglect. I went in to London today to meet a friend from the conversations meet up. Our lunch turned into coffee and coffee turned into visiting the British Museum –...

Alicante Weekend Break

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Alicante Weekend Break Anyone wanting to take their holidays in Alicante are well advised to do so, there are plenty of Alicante activities to keep you busy including the amazing beach you could spend a while there - but equally the city is compact enough that an...

Spanish Challenge Day… Taking a Break From Language Learning

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Motivation in Spanish - "motivación" Why is motivation important? So, I took a few days off. I took a week off. *insert shame gif here* I woke up on day 9 with the crackingest headache. I felt awful. I stayed in bed. Woe is me, listen to all the reasons and excuses I...

Spanish Challenge Day 7

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Learn Spanish in 2 Weeks Day 7 Duo Lingo 8 lessons, 40 minutes Spanish Pod 101 lesson 5, 1 hour Memrise, 4 sessions, 20 minutes 2 hours Today I focused on acquisition, I wanted to learn a bunch of new vocabulary so I did a whole bunch of Duo Lingo lessons and went...

Spanish Challenge Day 6

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DuoLingo: Lessons 1 Practice Sessions 1, 10 minutes Spanish Pod 101, Lessons 3, 30 minutes Vocab Practice 20 minutes Spanish music all day Total 1 hour I did not even approach my goal today, which I am really disappointed about. I did listen to a bunch of lessons but...

Spanish Challenge Day 5

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Time Log and Activities DuoLingo: Lessons – 3, Practice – 5, 45 minutes Conversation hours in Spanish 1 hour, (12 hours equivalent :P) Vocab and practice 2 hours Total 3.75 hours (but 14.5 if you will allow me to be dramatic ) This article pay contain affiliate links,...

Spanish Challenge Day 4

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Time Log and Activities DuoLingo: Lessons 4 Practice Sessions 1, 30 minutes Memrise: Lessons 4, 20 minutes Youtube Videos about Spanish and learning language - 1 hour Vocab Lists and Practice: 3 hours 4.75 hours This article pay contain affiliate links, to learn more...

Fluent in 3 Months Book Review

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Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis Benny Lewis is kind of online famous – he runs the biggest language learning blog in the world and is a well known polyglot. What the hell is a polyglot. Well, monolingual = you speak one language. Bilingual = two languages....

Spanish Challenge Day 3

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Time Log and Activities DuoLingo: Lessons 3, 40 minutes Memrise: Lessons 4, 20 minutrs Notes in Spanish: 1 episode and notes 30 minutes Vocab Practice: 30 minutes Read other half of Fluent in 3 Months – 90 minutes Spanish music through most of the day Total 3.5 hours...

Spanish Challenge Day 2

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Time Log and Activities DuoLingo: Lessons 1 Practice Sessions 2, 30 minutes minutes Memrise: Lessons 2, 20 minutes Notes in Spanish: Episode 3, 30 minutes Master of Memory: Quiz to 100%, 15 minutes. Lesson 1 hour 15. Practice: 30 minutes Writing out vocab and watching...

Spanish Language Resources

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All The Spanish Resources I Use or Try for My Spanish Challenge I will be writing up a brief summary of all the resources I use through this challenge, some will have more in depth reviews if I really loved or hated them. From Free to Paid to Extremely...