5 Categories of Realia: 1. Things you can hold. 2. Thing you can point to. 3. Things that happen in general. 4. Things from memory. 5. Things from imagination. - Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic Notebook Courses: https://www.skool.com/linguablox/classroom - Unlimited access to all courses when you upgrade to Premium.

The style of this mini-course is inspired by the formats of the following books: - The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba - Tao Te Ching by Laozi - Hua Hu Ching by Laozi - The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi - The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin In Classroom: https://www.skool.com/linguablox/classroom

Marhaban bikoum ya shabaab. I'm beginning work today on the 20 Day Modern Standard Arabic Video Course. 20 days, 30 minutes a day, using nothing but a notebook. The course is available now in the Classroom at its temporary price, and you'll also see that by upgrading to Premium Skool, you'll have unlimited access to all courses, past, present, and future: https://www.skool.com/linguablox/classroom Your satisfaction and success in these courses means the world to me because it allows me to shift focus away from Private Lessons, and work full time on producing Video Courses for you. So thank you all very much for helping make the Video Courses a success so far, and I am looking forward to seeing your progress in Modern Standard Arabic beginning today. Shukran!

- Days 13 & 14 are published in the Classroom: https://www.skool.com/linguablox/classroom - Pictures, videos, comments, questions, feedback are all welcome in this post.

There's a tiny town in Mexico where a few thousand people speak a dialect of Italian called Véneto Chipilegno. I spent 24 hours there practicing "guerrilla language learning" -- relying only what can be learned on the ground.