Well, it has been a hell of a time since I updated my blog. Honestly, I was kind of unmotivated doing anything on my VPS, but recently I solved some old issues (setting up DNS server, general administration things on my ubuntu 12.04) and I thought: Yeah, it's definitely time to feed my countless readers (yeah, you just met the first time my irony) with new interesting nibbles. And since I am a more or less motivated Spanish student, I thought I could share my pros and cons with duolingo.com.

I started learning Spanish approximately 5 months ago, when I began my spontaneous planned trip to Costa Rica. I was brutally thrown into (at least compared to Europe) very poor country and took for 5 weeks Spanish classes. Retrospectively, I'd say that I learned pretty quick how to communicate and express myself, but I completly fucked up my understanding of the language on the long term, because I learned it on the incorrect way. Before I even understood what my discussion partner intented to say and would have exposed me therefore in a silly but perfectly normal situation when I requested the unknown word/sentence, where I would …

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