Choosing Your Foreign Language; Opening a World

(This is a guest post by A.D. Giovanna) If you have made the commitment to yourself to learn your first foreign language, but still need to decide which one, you have a wondrous world of possibilities ahead of you. Sometimes there is a natural choice because of your job, such as the medical professional who…

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Confessions of a Twitter Novelist

My name is Robert K. Blechman and I am a Twitter novelist. I have written a fast, funny murder mystery entirely in Twitter, that is 140 characters at a time, that has been published in book form under the title “Executive Severance.” Starting on May 6, 2009, I conducted a literary experiment: Was it possible…

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Why a book was written

(This is a guest post by Sybil Powell.) I lived in Saudi Arabia for ten years and as I always do when I live abroad I ignored the English enclave and set out to meet the natives, not an easy thing to do in a muslim country. However my husband was of the same mind…

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Knowing Yourself

(This is a guest post by A.D. Giovanna). So you have decided to study a foreign language, or even to improve your capabilities in your native language. A tremendously important thing you can do to make all of your future studying and dedication is to figure out, here and now, what kind of a learner…

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