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May 22, 2013 9:09 pm

Learning Portuguese is hard but rewarding

 

  My history of learning a second language is pretty abysmal. I don’t have any idea why I chose French for 7th grade, but a combination of my laziness, and just plain inability to understand anything led me to almost flunk it that year. In 7th grade, it was mostly rote memorization. The only thing [...]

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This is New York…

 

“This is the last time I’m moving for a very long time” I said to myself as I hauled another overstuffed box out of the illegally parked U-Haul van, placed it on the rickety dolly and pushed it a block down 128th street in Harlem. Of course, that’s exactly what I said to myself six [...]

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Learning Portuguese is hard but rewarding

 

  My history of learning a second language is pretty abysmal. I don’t have any idea why I chose French for 7th grade, but a combination of my laziness, and just plain inability to understand anything led me to almost flunk it that year. In 7th grade, it was mostly rote memorization. The only thing [...]

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This is New York…

 

“This is the last time I’m moving for a very long time” I said to myself as I hauled another overstuffed box out of the illegally parked U-Haul van, placed it on the rickety dolly and pushed it a block down 128th street in Harlem. Of course, that’s exactly what I said to myself six [...]

more

Learning Portuguese is hard but rewarding

 

  My history of learning a second language is pretty abysmal. I don’t have any idea why I chose French for 7th grade, but a combination of my laziness, and just plain inability to understand anything led me to almost flunk it that year. In 7th grade, it was mostly rote memorization. The only thing [...]

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Learning Portuguese is hard but rewarding

 

  My history of learning a second language is pretty abysmal. I don’t have any idea why I chose French for 7th grade, but a combination of my laziness, and just plain inability to understand anything led me to almost flunk it that year. In 7th grade, it was mostly rote memorization. The only thing [...]

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