Choose Your Own…Language?
As a teenager, I loved immersing myself in Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) stories. To the uninitiated, these are stories where you – the reader – can choose the destiny of the protagonist. Each choice made takes the story in a different direction. A simple example:
Help! My Spanish Teacher is a Zombie
TO BE MORE PRECISE…an army of zombies. Since arriving back on Irish shores three months ago from Colombia, I’ve continued to work on my Spanish. Fortunately, Dublin has no shortage of Spanish speakers for practice. But I’m finding that private study is my preferred option for keeping my interest levels high. Even more so if […]
The Joy of Solo Travel
I’VE BEEN BLESSED to have spent a combined total of three years in the last decade backpacking and travelling through 25 countries across 4 continents. My first foray abroad without parents was as a painfully shy teenager at the tender age of 17 to the Balearic island of Ibiza in the late ’90s. My buddy […]
Learning Spanish in Guatemala
My motivation for learning Spanish was pretty straightforward: I was about to embark on a 9 month backpacking whistle-stop tour of Central and South America, and felt that my experience would be heightened if I could speak some of the lingo. I wanted to come back from my travels with a newly learnt, practical skill […]