The Rhythm of Learning
There’s a rhythm to learning a language in a place where most people don’t speak your native tongue. In brief, it goes like this: hard work, progress, a good conversation, recognition of how far you’ve come, followed by pride and self-satisfaction, which sets you up for a miserable failure in some interaction, followed by dejection, and a recognition of how much work there is yet to be done. Yesterday I was on the up curve of this […]