How stories can keep your love for a foreign language alive — I’m a big fan of stories — reading them, watching them, writing them, you name it. So it’s not surprising that I’ve wanted to incorporate them into my language learning and teaching. That is, of course, after I realised that it’s not only possible but also practical and highly beneficial…

…And where to find people to talk to! — I must admit I’ve never been a fan of talking to random strangers about general topics. I also don’t like repeating myself, re-living the reasons why I started learning a particular language, where I live and whether I visited this or that country. …

Thoughts on following the less travelled path in language learning. — Let me tell you a story about finding a way to practise a language I fell out of love with for some time. And it doesn’t involve improving my level on the CEFR scale or forcing myself to speak every day. The prehistory My relationship with French was strained, to say the…

Welcome to my Etsy shop with risograph and digital poetry zines — Sometimes there is a time when you struggle with stringing words together. For me, it’s the pandemic. Being under intermittent house arrest for a year with no ability to do the only thing that helps my mental health — travel — is probably the most challenging time in my life…