Inès Laurent
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Inès Laurent

Learning Spanish badly and happily. Reads with a pencil.

  1. noteSubjunctive, again
    seedling 1 min
  2. noteReading in a second language
    budding 1 min
  3. Learning a language at forty, badly and happily

    Fifteen minutes a day, a café on Tuesdays and a lot of mistakes. Three years in, I read novels.

    budding 3 min
  4. noteWords I like this month
    evergreen 1 min
  5. noteLearning to listen
    seedling 1 min
  6. Reading slowly, on purpose

    From sixty books a year to fifteen, and why I remember all fifteen.

    budding Members 3 min
  7. noteA year of Tuesdays
    1 min
  8. Teaching something you only just learned

    Three months into Spanish, a friend asked me to help her start. I learned more in six weeks of teaching than in three months of study.

    budding 2 min
  9. Learning to sketch birds, badly

    A pencil, a pocket notebook and a lot of potatoes with tails. Sketching birds taught me to see them.

    seedling 3 min
  10. Learning to darn a sock

    A needle, some wool and my grandmother's darning mushroom. Simple, calming and slightly addictive.

    evergreen 3 min

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