by TravelWithTheMuses | Nov 4, 2018 | Language
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...
by TravelWithTheMuses | Nov 3, 2018 | Language
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...
by TravelWithTheMuses | Nov 2, 2018 | Language
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 –...
by TravelWithTheMuses | Nov 1, 2018 | Language
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...
by TravelWithTheMuses | Oct 31, 2018 | Language
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...
by TravelWithTheMuses | Sep 28, 2018 | Language
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...
Hi! I'm Sam and I'm a massive nerd. Essentially if a place has at least one museum and some old stones I will be a happy camper. Books and archaeology and languages and all that stuff that so many people tut at for not being 'travel' related - well it lives here!