A semi-regular feature in which I answer student questions.
Category: study habits
Count on it
You’ve put in the hours and successfully integrated a new language into your life. And then someone starts rattling off figures — stocks, economic stats, the number of times a hawk jabbed them after dropping a live snake on them — you know, big numbers. And you freeze.
Most of us default to our native language for anything with numbers. It’s easier, right?
Ask a Teacher: The thinker
A semi-regular feature in which I answer student questions.
Good bad advice
I’m not supposed to tell you this.
I’m supposed to tell you to do the right thing. To encourage you to do the hard thing and keep at it no matter what.
But that doesn’t work. At least not for me.