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A battered dictionary with sticky notes and a highlighter on a desk

About me

I grew up speaking one language and learned the second one as an adult, from books, from neighbours and from a very old dictionary. For years I only read in it. Then one winter I wrote a short story, slowly and badly, and I have not stopped since.

Writing in a second language is slower, and it is also freer. I have fewer words, so every sentence has to earn its place, and the mistakes are often better than what I meant. My weekly letter is where I write down what I am learning about that, a word at a time.

What I sell is what I use myself: a notebook for new words, short texts to read slowly, a workbook for building sentences and two video courses. You do not need to be fluent. You only need to want to write something and give it time.

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Letters in a Second Language

A short letter every Friday: one word, one small story and one sentence to try writing in your own second language.

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