Teaching language to enhance travel, and traveling to explore language!
I’ve made an interesting observation recently regarding the ability for museums to act like “quest boards” that you might see in a video game. Let me explain a bit. In a lot of open-ended games, and in tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons (both of which I play a lot), it’s common to find quest…
Last June, I spent a day in Caracol, Belize, during a break from my work at a field school. It was a 3-week trip altogether, but we got to take special trips on the weekends out to places like this. Caracol was the first of several excursions we took at the field school, and it…
I’ve talked a few times about how it’s easy to find new experiences around you when you know where to look. So, while looking for blog post topics, my mom suggested vising the Post Falls History museum, which is only about a 10-minute drive, but which we’ve never visited. Unfortunately for us, we discovered that…
Looking to travel to Romania? It’s full of beautiful cities, amazing castles, and scenic views! But what about the language? How easily can you get around as an English speaker, and what other languages might you encounter? Well, it’s actually pretty cut and dry. It’s not as diverse as a country like Indonesia, but there…
Hi! Welcome to another one of my language guides for travelers. This time, I’m writing about Romanian Grammar! It might seem a little bit out of the blue for me to focus on a smaller language like Romanian when my previous posts focused on languages like Spanish, German, and Indonesian. That’s true, but I have…
I have talked a lot about language revitalization on this blog. It might seem a little weird as a topic for a travel blog, but let me explain. Everywhere you travel, you’re going to encounter new languages. This is expected. But there are many small ones on the sidelines, spoken only privately in homes or…
Sure, adventure is fun, but it’s not always easy to find good opportunities to try something new. I wrote a post several months ago about finding adventure where you live. I still agree with the points I made there, but I want to expand on them a bit in a new post. See, today I…
Now that I’ve written a guide to the German language, I think it’s time I write a guide to language in Germany. I’ve done this for all previous language guides, too, so I want to keep up the pattern. Unlike Indonesia and Belize, though, Germany doesn’t have any (recent) history of colonization and imperialist influence….
You might have heard of Inverness because of the show Outlander, where the town serves as one of the main settings. You also might know about it from the Battle of Culloden, where the Jacobite Rebellion fell to the British Government. This battle is also one of the central events of Outlander. You also might…
This week I thought I should talk about more of my recent travels. And since Dublin is a popular travel spot, I want to describe my time there. I’m going to do it in a similar format to my post about Scotland’s Stirling Castle! Day 1: Arrival in Dublin Our initial arrival in Dublin was…