Talk Foreign to Me
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This Blog is the firsthand experiences of both success and failure that Ruth shares from her own language learning journey, both of which she spins into spectacular inspiration for her readers.You'll find tons of information here tailored to learning French and Spanish. Run by Ruth Fertig
Talk Foreign to Me
1y ago
I haven’t had much to say here for awhile, because until a couple of weeks ago, I had all but abandoned my various language pursuits. My French has been withering on the vine for two years, since I left the full-time job that had me both speaking French frequently with West African colleagues and taking ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
1y ago
Sometimes I scroll through French property sites and take a little flight of fancy, pretending I might put in an offer on some gem of a place, or more likely some diamond-in-the-rough, in the South of France. It's very enjoyable, except when it's painful ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
1y ago
My trip to Israel was timed to coincide with two of my four cousins’ return to the country for Passover. The eldest cousin, Nir, has lived in L.A. for seventeen or eighteen years (we overlapped during his first / my last year in the city, the only time I ever lived remotely close to any ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
1y ago
This was not exactly what I had in mind when I planned my first trip to Israel in fourteen years ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
2y ago
I’ve been sitting on pictures of my trip to Jordan in October for months, because between the Omicron surge and the invasion of Ukraine, it felt obnoxious and tone deaf to post about a fun escape abroad. It still feels that way, to be honest, but a little less so in light of the fact ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
2y ago
It feels a little anticlimactic to follow Italy with Indiana, but that’s exactly what I’m going to do. In July, I spent a week in central Pennsylvania sharing a cabin with high school friends and assorted kids. At the end of the week, they headed home, and I got in my dad’s car and drove ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
2y ago
We have at long last reached the final installment of my Austrian-Slovenian-Italian adventure. These are the tiny towns I stopped in for an hour or two each on my way to and from Santa Maddalena. All three of them were quite stunning: Bressanone / Brixen Of special note: a special machine just for making whipped ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
2y ago
It’s ridiculous that it has taken me a year and a half to post these pictures, but then again, consider the year and a half it’s been. Or better yet, time travel back with me to simpler days, and consider the pre-pandemic bliss of a snowy stay in the Dolomites… I don’t think I had ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
2y ago
This week I bought myself a lifetime, unlimited languages subscription to Rosetta Stone for the bargain basement price of $179. The only hard part of the decision was picking which language to dive into first. Since I am hoping to visit Israel soon, I ended up starting with Hebrew. I chose a learning plan at ..read more
Talk Foreign to Me
3y ago
Something astonishing has happened. The astonishing news was delivered in a fittingly astonishing way. A couple of months ago, I was checking in with Mamie on WhatsApp, as I had been doing every few weeks. Someone in the Lo family was recovering from a serious case of COVID, so our conversations always started with that ..read more