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Goodbye 2018, hello 2019!

30/12/2018 By Gareth Leave a Comment

How has your language learning gone this year?  As one year makes way for another, in this post let's take a step back and look over how things went....and look ahead to share hopes and plans for 2019 (also in vlog form, down at the bottom). But first, my annual year-end review and preview wouldn't be complete without a picture of a Christmas tree.  Here's my 2018 "bark … [Read more...]

Language learning together…from 2017 to 2018

31/12/2017 By Gareth 4 Comments

Well, here we are on the eve of the New Year. I expect you too are looking back at all that happened in your world in 2017 and looking forward with anticipation to the New Year. Let's take stock and plan ahead together! But first.....a festive "kitsch-off" Regular readers may not yet have recovered from the picture of I shared in my 2016 end-of-year review of the … [Read more...]

Zwischen den Jahren: language learning together from the old year to the new

30/12/2016 By Gareth Leave a Comment

Hello from a frosty and foggy London! If you celebrate the "Western" Christmas, I hope you had a great time. I love the decorations, the traditional, rather heavy British Christmas dinner (turkey, roast potatoes, all the "trimmings"). Now it's 29th December and I've finished the turkey but the cake and mince pies are still going strong. We're in that strange no man's … [Read more...]

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