Back to language teaching?
Almost 3 months into my job as an economic specialist, I got an additional role at work: Tagalog teacher for my boss. As he will be based in Manila for 2 years, he is very keen on learning the language. He is married to a...
Une carte postale
Last week, our teacher made us write a postcard as a class activity. Just a pretend postcard, addressed to somebody (real or not) living somewhere outside the Philippines. Apparently, the French love to write postcards when they travel. Filipinos rarely do this — why use...
Basic French, week 1
There isn’t much to report here. Classes just started this week and I have only made a bit of progress with Coffee Break French. As of now, I don’t think I will need to get a paid subscription to the podcast as the lessons are...
Frenching it in 2014
I declare that 2014 is the year of le français. I did the first module at Alliance Francais last year, albeit halfheartedly. Maybe it is because I have yet to discover the beauty of French as a language. But eversince purchasing Assimil New French with...
I have forgotten my brain – week 1 of The Ten Week Journey in French
In the week 1 email of The Ten Week Journey, Aaron introduced Livemocha and advised to use it. Um, but I didn’t. I read a few reviews about it and what made me decide against it was Benny the Irish Polyglot’s review. I am not...
My journey through foreign languages
Just recently, I had a realization: I badly wanted to be a polyglot. This came to me one day when I was browsing through language forums. I was shocked to learn how many people speak 3, 4, 5 or more languages fluently. Many of them...
Language schools in the Philippines
It’s summer — and I am reminded once again of how I missed those days of no school, just bumming around the house, or hanging out with friends. It was fun but doing the same things every day does get boring after a while. One...
Why you should study every day
If you are aiming to take the N2 or N1 level of the JLPT in December this year, I would suggest that you start studying now. Do not wait until it’s July until you actually pick up your books and cram as many Kanji and...
Top 3 things I want to learn in 2013
1. French – I recently enrolled in basic French classes with Arol at Alliance Francais. This course marks my “return to the classroom” after many years, although now I get to be a student again. (I miss teaching terribly but that’s another story for another...
Living Language Platinum – Italian
This is NOT an impulse purchase. Well, sort of. For weeks, I’ve been visiting Fully Booked because I saw that they have new Living Language stuff. I was seriouly thinking of studying Italian since I got that Godfather bug. Unfortunately, Italian laguage learning is not...
Extremely affordable Japanese language lessons from NCF and Ensogo!
Today, I received an email from Betty Mojica-sensei, my mentor and principal of the Nihongo Center Foundation. She told me that the NCF has partnered with Ensogo (be still my heart, haha) on a groupon deal for Elementary 1 Japanese lessons. 😀 What does an...
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