Pimsleur: The Most Underrated Language Product

I've been wanting to write a post about Pimsleur for so long. My review of Assimil has been my most popular post so far and apparently a lot of people liked it, but there's also another language learning product that I must do justice, and that's Pimsleur.Assimil is a charismatic language learning product,...

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Goddess of Thunder (Short Story in Progress) Chapter 5

VShe was on the road once again, the storm had just begun, the winds were becoming more and more hostile but they were nothing that she couldn't handle, the journey was steady the danger was being ignored. But then everything changed with the appearance of the tornado at the end of the road. There was no way of her to change directions by know, so she had no option but to be consumed by it.Ailine...

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Darkness in the Corners (Short Poem)

Short poem of mine, regarding the easy life and other things:Darkness in the CornersBy Emanuel VasconcelosIt's unknown to me when and how, but they made it,or so it seems.It's unknown to me what colors are they wearing,they're so bright...so bright that I cannot distinguish them at all.Calling themselves masters of change,attracting other souls to them.Evidence in the imagesand evidence in the words.They...

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Goddess of Thunder (Short Story in Progress) Chapter 4

Fourth chapter, hope you enjoy this one. :)IVWhoever reaches the top of the mountain, he or she will gain an audience with the Goddess of Thunder, she will grant him or her a wish. Ailine knew the legend but she never believed it, she didn't head to the mountain with that in mind, she just did it to escape the storm that always tormented her, she just did it because it gave her the sensation that...

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Goddess Of Thunder (Short Story in Progress) Chapter 3

IIIThe sound of the knocking door was the only thing audible that rusty morning. She didn't even know what time it was, this was the first time in her life were she really needed to enter a restaurant and the restaurant was closed. She heard someone moving inside, so she knocked even harder. Someone finally opened the door."Young lady, we will open in two hours...oh it's you!" said the waiter."I need...

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The Ordeal of Learning a Language alone.

So, I've decided to stop learning French and start learning Italian. This month of February I'm focusing exclusively on Italian to see how far  I can go on my own. I don't really need Italian, I don't need to learn it for anything serious so I'm just doing it for the heck of it. But of course,...

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On the importance (or lack of it) of starting something the right way.

I think it's impossible to determine what moment is a good moment to start doing something.What is the appropriate moment to become enrolled in something? what is the appropriate moment to start a habit? or to leave one?It's truly rare to find a moment which you could interpret as the absolute moment in which you should start doing something, and  if you ever find that so-called perfect moment...

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Goddess Of Thunder (Short Story in Progress), Chapter 2

Second chapter of this little short story of mine, hope you'll enjoy it.IIBack where she belonged, the storm was rising again. The sound of the engine became her meditation mantra, perhaps she was ready to do it one more time. She knew which direction she had taken, moving ahead and pushing forward, she was meeting a recurring dead-end. As the mist unfolded in the horizon, there she was, the mountain,...

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