I am in Montreal for my 50th high-school reunion but in the fall 50 years ago I entered McGill. I only stayed two years before going to France. Today it is raining. Tonight I fly to Prague. 
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I am in Montreal for my 50th high-school reunion but in the fall 50 years ago I entered McGill. I only stayed two years before going to France. Today it is raining. Tonight I fly to Prague .  [Permalink](http://blog.thelinguist.com/50-years-ago-mcgill) | [Leave a comment »](http://blog.thelinguist.com/50-years-ago-mcgill#comment)
As I announced earlier, I am going to spend 5 days in Prague in October. During this period I am going to try to speak as much Czech as possible in order to achieve a breakthrough to fluency. I have been doing a lot of listening and reading, using LingQ, …
I finally returned from my trip to the Cook Islands, New Zealand and Australia. I loved the layed back tropical paradise atmosphere of Roratonga, the green and clean nature of New Zealand, and the energy and optimism of Australia, and friendly people everywhere. But more than that, I was …
My wife and I are loving our first visit to the Southern Hemisphere. Our first stop was Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Rarotonga is only 10 hours from Los Angeles. A delightful little island, 32 km in circumference. There are two bus routes, clockwise and counterclockwise. We rented a …
We had a small meetup in Auckland but Chris, Carmen and I had a lively discussion in a small French bistro. Always a pleasure to …
Milena Ben Ayako Carmen Me Adam Dion Peter A great time was had by all Sent from my iPhone Permalink | Leave a comment »
Evgueny, one of my Russian tutors at LingQ, and I, have started a series of discussions on Russia, in Russian. This material is for our Library at LingQ, and so I try to keep my comments (full of errors) to a minimum, mostly a few questions here and there. …