The question of “What do you do?” has always been a tough one for me to answer. I have actually had about 40 jobs in the last 10 years, so answering with a single description just doesn’t describe what I “do” with my life in any real sense. I was the race controller at a […]
MORESocial media Saturday – What happens in Vegas… gets blogged and tweeted!
My Hungarian mission is progressing very well! I am at the stage now where I can have telephone conversations entirely in Hungarian. Not bad for just having spent a few weeks in the country so far! But in just under two weeks, this mission will be coming to an end and I’ll be moving on. […]
MOREIl sabato della scoperta – Who wants a postcard / What’s Benny’s next mission?
As the name of this blog suggests, I move somewhere new about once every three months (although I was in Berlin for four months and will have only spent just over two months in Hungary by the time I leave, so this time limit fluctuates). This means that my date of departure is slowly approaching […]
MORESamedi de sondage – What’s your favourite language learning book/course/tool? And work/study hack
One of the most frequent questions that I get asked by readers of this blog is What is the best book/course to help me to learn my target language? This is an open-ended question that depends on many things, and something that I have generally avoided discussing on the blog up to now. While I […]
MOREEl sábado sabedor: Flat tour & random items, MJ flashmob, interviews with Benny
Since I’m planning to be way more active on the blog from now on, I’m aiming to write three posts a week, sharing lots of interesting new ideas about travel/language hacking. To help keep up the flow, my Saturday posts will be more general ones covering several different topics briefly, and sharing some links and […]
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