Greg's Reflections

If you're an intermediate student of a foreign language and you want to try to read a novel in that language, you need an e-reader that ...

It's a chore memorizing how to conjugate all 45 forms of  Italian verbs--even the regular ones, and when you factor in the irregular one...

German presents a bewildering combination of attributes: masculine, feminine, neuter, plural, nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, whic...

Seta  (2008, 108 pages) is a quick, easy read: ideal for someone's first attempt to read an Italian novel. Hervé Joncour, a young man ...

I decided to abandon the popular Italian novel La forma dell'acqua  (first novel in the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri)...

Despite being 250 years old, Voltaire's book Candide ou l'optimisme  was a delight to read, even at my level of French. It's a w...

Finishing Duolingo isn't enough; you want all the skills to be "gold," and you want them to stay  gold. In this post, I'l...