Posts in Travel
How to meet people while (living) abroad

I’m an introvert but I enjoy people to a certain extent so I call myself an extroverted introvert.  I once hosted a 4th of July party at my house and at 1:30am I was wired up and dancing to the song selection that the DJ, my extroverted coworker, had lined up in the queue.  He had a program that displayed a lot of song titles and I wanted to hear every one of them. 

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How to learn another language

But really, I have the utmost respect for anyone who speaks more than one language. Most people I know can only speak one.  Even worse are the people who make fun of men and women who speak broken English or with a thick accent when they themselves can only speak one language. I’m judging them (or you if you mock non-Native English Speakers).  It’s hard to learn another language and increasingly exhausting the older you get. But it’s not an impossible feat. I’m going to share with you a few of the things that are currently helping me learn Spanish and any other language that I’ve attempted to learn. 

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