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People with quality language-learning sites and blogs who leave quality comments should have a dofollow link back to their site. I think it helps to grow the language-learning community and to build a powerful network of quality sites.

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Hello everyone,

As you know, it’s been about 3 months now since this blog was updated last. There’s a good reason for that. The past 3 months have been a bit rough for me, and I haven’t had the time or ability to be able to update this blog, unfortunately. I’ve been pretty occupied lately, working on school plus doing other things. Also, in February I was in a car accident and was put out of action for a while. Fortunately I wasn’t hurt but I did have to worry about getting the cars involved repaired and whatnot. Curse this state and its evil icy weather!

Anyways, with that and having to get caught back up with school and other things I just haven’t had the time to write for this blog and work on my language-learning . But now, things are much better and I plan to continue with working on language instruction, especially with college letting out in a couple weeks. I’m getting a little rusty already and I’ll need to review some stuff I’m afraid.

On another note, I’m thinking about taking some language classes at my local university this fall. They offer a number of courses, including Arabic, Chinese, German, and Spanish. Arabic might be a fun choice, but I don’t know if it would be worth the time/money to take such a class, and according to reviews on RateMyProfessors.com the instructor for the class is less-than-ideal.

Plus, I’ve been doing pretty well (in my opinion) so far without having taken any language “classes”, so maybe it would be more worthwhile to invest in more learning material instead of paying for the tuition of what could turn out to be a mediocre-quality class. I dunno, we’ll see.

Hello and welcome to Linglot.com. My name is Zach Graham and I am a medical student from Minnesota. In my free time, I love to study language and learn how to converse with people of different continents, nations, and ethnic groups. I realize that where I live, the United States, is becoming a nation of not just one language, but numerous languages. It’s now recommended that people learn a second language, and it won’t be long before it’s required to function in society.

Anyways, a little about me. I’ve studied Spanish for about two years, entirely on my own, using courses such as Pimsleur and Michel Thomas, as wells as numerous dictionaries, books, and online resources (such as Tomísimo). Spanish seemed like the way to get started for me, as it is the #2 language in the United States, and I don’t have to go very far to find someone to talk to (my brother-in-law is Hispanic, too). I also find it to be very chic and a beautiful language.

Another language I’ve been tinkering with a little bit is Brazilian Portuguese. It’s so similar to Spanish it’s insane, at least in my opinion. I plan on doing a lot of traveling to South America in the future, so Portuguese seemed like a good idea. Since it’s so close to Spanish, I practically already have a 1/2 off discount on Portuguese from my knowledge of Spanish.

In addition to these two, I have a strong interest in French, Norwegian, Japanese, and Arabic. I haven’t yet gotten to these much, but they’re definitely on my to-do list. Hopefully I’ll be able to get to them someday. A friend of mine is in the military and is soon going to be in an intense Arabic learning program. 42 weeks of all-day 6-days-a-week solid Arabic. I’m very jealous of him.

I hope those who visit this place like what they see, and I’ll do my best to provide some interesting info. I hope to contribute to this for years to come, and what better time to start than at the beginning of a year?