I just came back from Italy. I again witnessed how it’s all about our mind whether we improve in our target language abilities or not. It’s an attitude – a mindset (of course, we also need time and situations that involve the language. More on that in another post).

So I was in Italy with my mom to visit relatives. I understand a lot of Italian, I don’t ...

On Tuesday, October 3, unumondo, Ladies Inside, KOSMOS, and She Started It will host the screening of the documentary She Started It, followed by a panel and networking. The documentary is a feature length film on women tech entrepreneurs. It highlights successful role models for young women and is first documentary to go behind the scenes of running a tech startup as a young woman. It explores the cultural roots ...

I was born in Switzerland and went to school here. This means in third grade I started learning French as a mandatory subject. French was part of my school schedule until I graduated. All in all this means I was sitting in French class more than 1300 hours.

Am I able to have a conversation in French? Nope! All I remember is the dreadful dealing with grammar and slogging through ...