Celebrating tiny language learning victories

I've been casually studying Chinese for the past 16 months (including reading and writing). No heroics, just spending 10 minutes a day on Skritter building my vocabulary, repeating the sentence examples to get used to how they feel and sound, and talking with my parents in Chinese (which usually breaks down to a mish-mash of … Continue reading Celebrating tiny language learning victories →

Learning requires long-term thinking

I'm a "heritage learner " of Mandarin Chinese, which means I grew up with the language when I was a child but lost it when I started school (the 1970s were NOT a time when the United States welcomed multiculturalism). As a result, my Chinese language skills are stuck at about the level of a … Continue reading Learning requires long-term thinking →