Tag: foreign languages

Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded

12 October 2014

This is a post from my My 20-day Zappos + Buffer Values Challenge "Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded" oooh. Another one about hacking… Let's tackle this set of values in reverse order. In Paul Graham's essay "What you can't say", he asks Who thinks they're not open-minded? Our hypothetical prim miss from the suburbs thinks […]

Swedish Language? Difficult to learn?

6 November 2012

I've studied French and Russian at school, and for about a year, last year, took Swedish language evening classes. People always would drop the question "Is it difficult?". This is a horrible question to attempt to answer – usually, the language isn't really what the answer will relate to, rather the learner's ability and how […]