Greg's Reflections

On October 19, I finished reading Jules Verne's Cinq semaines en ballon , after ten weeks of on-again, off-again effort. Since the book ...

I just finished William Alexander's wonderful Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart , a...

To read effectively, you need to learn thousands of words, mostly by rote. Flashcards are the tool par excellence  for rote memorization, bu...

Is it à, de, en or something else? As students of French, especially on Duolingo , we're often confused about what preposition to use ...

What is Duolingo? (Updated December 30, 2014) Duolingo is an award-winning free, web-based program for learning foreign languages. Duoli...

What is "Resumptive Lo ?" In Spanish we often see sentences with a mysterious lo  in them. For example consider this dialogue: ...

What are Perfect Tenses? A perfect tense is a compound tense  which combines an auxiliary verb  with a past participle . For every simple ...