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The Claim: Learn Multiple Languages in Just a Few Years

Danielle — Sat, 12 May 2012 17:49:31 +0000

Really? Four languages in a few years? I suppose if your job depended on it like this guys did, you’d have to figure out some sort of system.

Here are his steps: 1. Pronunciation

2. Vocabulary and Grammar

3. Listen, Write, Read

4. Speak

Sounds simple, right? I’m guessing the hardest point is not giving up somewhere in between Steps 2 and 3.

I would love to hear if anyone else has either used this method (successfully?) or developed their own method.

London is an Old Lady who Mutters

Danielle — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:39:54 +0000

Frank and I have seen a good many great cities in our travels and we like to share what we’ve seen. And yet describing a city’s essence is (at least for me) very hard to do. The greater the city the more nervous I am about trying to capture it in words. Then when I read someone else’s fabulous description of a fabulous place it makes my heart skip a beat and I think finally, someone has put it exactly right.

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How to Save Money on Food While Traveling

Danielle — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:11:34 +0000

Dream chasing can sometimes (ok, often) be riddled with financial obstacles. Like say, travel. Unless you’re being paid to travel as part of your career, it can get expensive! I think traveling is great, but there are lots of little costs that add up over the duration of a vacation that are easy to account for when budgeting. The most obvious things you probably budget for are transportation and accommodations, but what about food and entertainment? What about insurance and travel gear?

My husband and I have just spent 8 days in Vancouver, a city that is more expensive to . . .

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Preserving Your Travel Memories – Part 3: Show it Off

Danielle — Sat, 01 May 2010 11:40:02 +0000

Welcome to Part 3 of a 3 part series on preserving your travel memories. You’ve traveled to make memories, written them down and snapped them up.

Don’t stop there….the final step is to get continual enjoyment out of your travels by showing off your memories! Do it for yourself, your family, and your friends who traveled vicariously through you.

Here are some cool ways to show off your goods (other than making boring slideshow presentations, wearable photo t-shirts, custom-printed mugs, and awkward photo albums. Those are decidedly not cool).

Online Photo Sharing – flickr, . . .

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Preserving Your Travel Memories – Part 2: Snap it Up

Danielle — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:35:43 +0000

Photo by Έλενα

Well, I may have a bad memory for some things but at least I remembered to write a follow-up post to Part 1 of Preserving Your Travel Memories! I am a visual learner and find that photos help to trigger memories I had thought were lost from the sieve forever. Here’s the next memory preservation tip:

Snap it up.

Travel with a camera and use it! When reading through pages of old diaries and blog posts is too time-consuming . . .

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Preserving Your Travel Memories – Part 1: Write it Down

Danielle — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:49:11 +0000

Photo by Barnaby

My memory is like a sieve. Some things stay rattling around in my brain, other things fall through the holes and are hard to retrieve. It’s fine to forget things like heartache, fights with friends, or bad Christmas presents. But it is frustrating to forget important conversations, experiences, and past events. I especially want to remember my travels, so I’ve developed a few tricks to help with the memory retention and recall. Here’s the first:

Write it down.

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Monday Photo: Urban Motocross

Danielle — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:02:09 +0000

Kiwis love their extreme sports. Bungee, bridge climbing, skydiving, hang gliding, rugby, jet boat racing…they just can’t seem to get enough of the heart-racing sports.

This past weekend they went a little crazy (for my liking) and decided to hold dirt bike races in the middle of downtown. Red Bull, the event sponsor, brought motocross right into the city – dirt piles, log-jumping, rock gardens and all. It was a big course so I’m including two pictures today.

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Monday Photo: Flickr Happy

Danielle — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:40:19 +0000

All of the earthly possessions I care about are either a) locked in a safe or b) with us on our trip. This includes countless digital photos (on two laptops) that we would be devastated to lose. Like this one:

So we’ve found a great solution to make sure we never lose any of our photos, even if we lose our laptops. It’s . . .

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Monday Photo: Little Churches on the Hilltops

Danielle — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:20:36 +0000

Here it is, your moment of Zen.

How nice would it be to get married in this little church? That’s one way of limiting the guest list!

Monday Photo: Something to Bring Home

Danielle — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:55:47 +0000

If there was one thing I could bring home with us from Auckland, it would be this. It’s a path for runners which traces the water’s edge away from downtown, past one of Auckland’s sailboat marinas, and out to the 3 East Coast beaches. Doesn’t it make you feel like running!?