Learning
Languages, skills and learning things late.
5 entries-
budding 3 min
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.
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evergreen 3 min
Why we write in public
Four friends, eleven years of long emails, and a garden instead of a stream.
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budding 2 min
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.
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seedling 3 min
Learning to sketch birds, badly
A pencil, a pocket notebook and a lot of potatoes with tails. Sketching birds taught me to see them.
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evergreen 3 min
Learning to darn a sock
A needle, some wool and my grandmother's darning mushroom. Simple, calming and slightly addictive.