Welcome to the Rachel's English podcast.

In today's episode, I'm sitting down with my husband, David,

and we're discussing a conversation we had when we were in Italy.

Now, when we went to Italy, we didn't study much Italian,

and so communication was a challenge, but we were able to pick up

some phrases and we did do a little bit of studying. And in this conversation, we're talking

about how much more there is to do when learning a language than just learning from a book.

We're talking a lot about how you can personally engage with the

language and the culture and the people and the personalities around you. And these kinds of

things, I think, are really underrated when someone is learning a new language. People tend to

focus so much on book knowledge. And that's really just part of the story.

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Thanks, David, for being here and sharing your thoughts about this experience. Yeah, I'm really

looking forward to it. What an awesome trip it was. Oh, it was incredible. David and I were just

saying this morning how it's been a week ago today we were flying home what what does that does it

seem like a week ago or does it seem further away to you i would say it seems a little bit further it's

been such a awful week really of transitioning back and everybody's sleep schedule i mean it hasn't been a

fun week yeah no it's been it has been tough getting stony back on a normal sleep schedule. I mean, it hasn't been a fun week. Yeah, no, it's been, it has been tough getting

Stony back on a normal sleep schedule. But I think today, tonight, last night, he finally did it. He

slept 12 hours without waking up. Yeah. That was amazing. Okay, so about speaking another language,

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