Russian-Epic Fail (for now)

Dear Readers,

What has this traveler and language learner been up to since 2013, you might ask? Here and in the following posts, I will give some highlights from the past two years.

For now, the mood strikes to write about language…

More than a decade after the worst language-learning experience of my life (my college Russian class), in the summer of 2014 I finally decided to pick up Russian again. Although I tried to be excited about it and spent several hours a week playing with language apps, learning vocabulary and speaking with native speakers, the experience was short-lived. After about three months of faithful (and completely uninteresting) study, I arrived at the conclusion that the best way I could possibly achieve any kind of mastery over this incredibly challenging language is to just GO to someplace that speaks it as a native language and get the full immersion experience. Since that was impractical at this stage of my life, I reluctantly gave up and focused my attentions elsewhere. I hate to give up on anything or leave anything half done. So, with plans to carry on with the language at some future point, I’ll contented myself with working on my book instead. In any case, from my experience, no learning is ever lost. Therefore, I predict that at some point in the future, even this abandoned language will somehow come in handy.

Stay tuned for more language (German!) and travel updates with some pictures, including Peru (Machu Picchu!), Turkey, Cyprus, San Diego and Colorado Springs.

Thanks for reading!

This is me, signing off…