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Content and Discontent: A Group Call on Language Learning
You can feel good about your Spanish and still want more from it. Both at once. That's not a contradiction, it's a great place to be. In this call we'll practice holding both: - What to acknowledge: the progress you've made - What to keep working on: the gaps that still frustrate you We'll also look back at 2026 so far: - What went well - What could be better in the second half of the year Date & Time: - Rome (CEST): Monday, July 13, 4:30 PM - New York (EDT): Monday, July 13, 10:30 AM - Los Angeles (PDT): Monday, July 13, 7:30 AM - Buenos Aires (Argentina): Monday, July 13, 11:30 AM Duration: 1 hour Language: English Cost: Complimentary Facilitator: Walter Freiberg (aka Paco Ardit) Sign up below! (find the event also on the Calendar tab) https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ny9CelNFSfmn8Er3g3dEXQ Looking forward to seeing you there! Walter
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Content and Discontent: A Group Call on Language Learning
Join the locals before you're 100% ready
Last week Iโ€™ve been to Austria. I spent a couple days in Vienna and in Innsbruck. The main reason I visited Innsbruck was an AI event. It was all about learning, connecting and networking to leverage AI at work. In German. I registered in advance. โ€˜What a cool opportunity to practice my German skills on a topic I like!โ€™ I thought. I welcome and appreciate these occasions when Iโ€™m abroad. And I also feel anxious, unsure, unprepared, and many other things. Both excitement and fear can coexist. As I considered joining this event (and as the day got closer) these were the other thoughts that went through my mind: - โ€œThis is not for you: youโ€™re not a native German speakerโ€ - โ€œThis is not intended for tourists, itโ€™s for localsโ€ - โ€œAI is not your niche, youโ€™re not a developer or business owner using Claude Code and agents all day long. What are you even doing there?โ€ - โ€œYour German is not good enough for thisโ€ - โ€œYou donโ€™t know essential AI vocabulary in German. What makes you think this is a good idea?โ€ - โ€œWhy are you wasting your time going to an event in a foreign language when you could go to a proper activity or excursion in the mountains (in English)?โ€ - โ€œWhy do you need to stretch yourself like this?โ€ I could go on, but letโ€™s leave it there. I could also agree with some of these thoughts and voices. There might be some truth here. And that doesnโ€™t mean that I should follow these thoughts or stop doing it just because the voice says it so. I can create distance and space, and consider it calmly and slowly. Also, I can interact with these thoughts. โ€‹ โžก๏ธ โ€œThis is not for you: youโ€™re not a native German speakerโ€ Says who? The event organizer? The part of me that loves selling me short? The perfectionist, the purist? Nobody said this is only for Austrians or for native German speakers. It could well be the case that +95% of the participants of past events were native German speakers, because this is a networking event that takes place in Innsbruck (Austria), in German, and is on a specific topic. The day I participated, I think I was the only person who wasnโ€™t from Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. I was up for the challenge. With fear and everything.
Join the locals before you're 100% ready
Hoy Hablamos Bรกsico, episodio 120. Cuรฉntame cรณmo pasรณ: la serie que contรณ la historia de Espaรฑa.
Es interesante que muchos de nosotros estamos usando los mismos pรณdcasts, series de Netflix y videos de YouTube para aprender espaรฑol. Uno de los primeros pรณdcasts para aprender espaรฑol de Espaรฑa fue Hoy Hablamos. Luego apareciรณ una especie de clon de Hoy Hablamos, Charlas Hispanas, para aprender espaรฑol de Latinoamรฉrica. Despuรฉs hubo otro โ€œclonโ€: Hoy Hablamos Bรกsico. Anteayer escuchรฉ el episodio 120 de Hoy Hablamos Bรกsico sobre uno de mis temas favoritos: 20. Cuรฉntame cรณmo pasรณ: la serie que contรณ la historia de Espaรฑa Episodio 120 de Hoy Hablamos Bรกsico Transcripciรณn del audio: โ€œHoy Hablamos Bรกsico, episodio 120. Cuรฉntame cรณmo pasรณ: la serie que contรณ la historia de Espaรฑa. Bienvenido al pรณdcast para aprender espaรฑol de nivel bรกsico-intermedio. Puedes ver la transcripciรณn, las explicaciones y los ejercicios de este episodio en nuestra web: hoyhablamos.com/basico. ยกHola, oyente! ยฟQuรฉ tal estรกs? Quiero que te imagines esto. Estรกs sentado en el sofรก de tu casa, viendo el รบltimo capรญtulo de una serie que ha acompaรฑado a tu familia durante mรกs de veinte aรฑos. La mรบsica suena, los actores se despiden y, de repente, en la pantalla solo se ven los crรฉditos. Y tรบ piensas: ยซยฟY ahora quรฉ?ยป. Pues algo asรญ sintieron millones de espaรฑoles el 29 de noviembre de 2023.โ€
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Chau Duolingo
ยกHoy he dicho โ€˜goodbyeโ€ a Duolingo!
Mi nuevo reto: hablar mรกs en espaรฑol
En enero de 2026, me propuse hablar mรกs en espaรฑol. Sรฉ que serรก un reto y muy diferente a simplemente leer y escuchar el espaรฑol. Empecรฉ leyendo a voz alta, pero no estoy segura de quรฉ tan buena es mi pronunciaciรณn. Luego probรฉ el shadowing, y me encanta este mรฉtodo. Necesito encontrar la forma de aplicarlo a mis propios contenidos. Ademรกs, desde febrero, he estado hablando con una amiga que tiene un acento espaรฑol de Espaรฑa. Yo estaba sรบper nerviosa antes de nuestra primera conversaciรณn. Mi espaรฑol era mucho mรกs lento comparado con el suyo. Me di cuenta de que cuando me preparo antes, me siento mรกs tranquila, relajada y confiada al hablar. Sin embargo, en la vida diaria, no siempre es posible estar preparada. Este es mi reto para las prรณximas conversaciones.
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