While I’m not in school, I try to continue my language studies as much as possible.  I use a couple of website to do this that touch on different areas of language learning.  An added bonus is that they’re both free, so you don’t have to waste money on expensive programs like Rosetta Stone.
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My love affair with languages started about 5 years ago, after a trip to Ecuador.  At that point, I’d taken two years of Spanish, but wasn’t really all that enthralled about the language.  But after spending two weeks in a country that spoke Spanish, learning the language became exciting.  No longer was it something that [...]