

Learn aggressively, not passively
"This is going to be much easier than I thought." That was what first crossed my mind as I sat smugly through my opening intensive Portuguese class after making the move to Lisbon. I understood every word the teacher was saying and surprised myself with how much vocabulary I already had my disposal. I spent four weeks in a private language school, flying through various levels of the ludicrously named "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" and started to wonde