Husband has been asked to be on the jury of the International Sound Awards in Hamburg, Germany—he’s kind of a big deal in the sound design world. Of course I’m going to tag along. As I’ve been moving into translation and localization, I’ve been trying to make strategic decisions about which languages I should focus […]
Como una traductora, es muy importante practicar los idiomas cada día. Y por supuesto, es importante para mi, personalmente porque quiero hablar con fluencia. Simplemente, me encantan los idiomas. Hablo un poco de muchos idiomas – el alemán, el francés, el checo, el árabe… Mis idiomas más fuertes son el español y el francés, entonces, […]
As I wrote earlier, Husband and I had decided to go to Panama in the Fall. I really felt drawn to going somewhere where I could use French or Spanish and we’d love to try somewhere new. We were set. Then several weeks ago, someone wrote me asking if a friend of theirs could email […]
C’est assez naturel que j’ai finalement choisi de m’immerger dans la langue française. Depuis aussi longtemps que je me souvienne, j’adore les films français, la culture, l’art, et bien sûr la cuisine… mais principalement, j’aime la culture française de la philosophie, la sexualité… Toujours, je suis obsédée par les films d’art spécialisés et les films […]
¡Hemos estado viajando mucho, recientemente! El mayo pasado, estuve en Berlin durante un mes, la navidad pasada viajamos al País Vasco (en Francia y España), viajamos a Santa Barbara un mes después País Vasco, y fuimos a Palm Springs / Joshua Tree in el marzo pasado. We’ve traveled a lot recently! Last May, I was […]
Il y a deux matins, j’ai soumis ma demande pour obtenir mon diplôme! Je flippe, un peu. Et maintenant? Two mornings ago, I submitted my application for graduation. I’m flipping out a little. And now? En fait, j’ai beaucoup des plans, donc… je ne suis pas stressée par “et maintenant”. In fact, I have many […]
Over my Spring Break, the family and I went to Palm Springs. Husband and I had been there before – pre marriage, pre kid – and had good memories of Joshua Tree and hotels with hot springs. Having returned a decade later, I have to say that Palm Springs itself is underwhelming (though staying at […]
I used to read an extraordinary amount. When I was a child, I would always ask for several books for Christmas, and my mother would always oblige and wrap a tall stack of books for me to find under the tree. She did this, buying me a pile of books, knowing that I would immediately […]
I have found knowing Spanish and my limited knowledge of Latin to be incredibly helpful in learning French. I was afraid that I’d mix Spanish in French frequently and struggle taking both beginner French and intermediate Spanish at the same time. Other than the occasional odd mix little mix up, it’s been fine and even […]
I am going to *try* to get into the habit of writing some posts in French before each test, using the vocab and grammar from the unit. I write a lot by hand, of course, but sometimes having to maneuver with a keyboard in different languages helps things stick. Plus, I just enjoy writing in […]
In my quest to reach C2 level in French by the end of 2018, I’ll be spending a lot of time going back to old favorite French songs and musicians, as well as French movies I’ve loved and a few television series I’ve discovered along the way. One of the songs that’s been stuck in […]
A former blogger that I loved (and still do) posted a link to … oh, heck, I don’t even remember the original link. It was a link to something regarding Paris which sent me down an amazing rabbit hole for a good hour or two. I am not particularly obsessed with Paris – je n’apprendes […]
